HAJIME IWAKI

Hajime Iwaki is a Japanese lawyer with more than 20 years of experience at major international law firms. His major practice areas are M&A and joint ventures, corporate restructuring, employment relations and commercial contracts. Hajime currently maintains a solo practice in Tokyo, for better client attention and responsiveness to service multinational corporations as outside general counsel on a wide variety of Japanese legal matters. Hajime's practice areas also include intellectual property, franchise, real estate leases, corporate secretarial, and local litigation.

LOCATION: Tokyo, Japan

LICENSED TO PRACTICE IN: Japan, California

CURRENT FIRM: Law Office of Hajime Iwaki

PRIOR FIRM(S): DLA Piper  |  O'Melveny & Myers

LAW SCHOOL: University of Pennsylvania

ADVANCED DEGREES: Admitted in Japan: 1997

PRACTICE AREA(S):

Corporate and Securities

(Commercial Contracts | Corporate Governance | Cross-Border Transactions | M&A | Partnerships and Joint Ventures)

Labor and Employment

Bankruptcy and Restructuring

(Creditors' Rights | Insolvency Restructurings | Liquidation and Dissolution Proceedings | Workouts)

INDUSTRY: Technology, media and entertainment, life sciences