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Keita Hitomi
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Keita Hitomi

Partner

Main Practices
General Corporate Legal Affairs / Private Equity and Venture Capital / Merger Control (Domestic and International) / Cartels, Bid Rigging, and Leniency / Japan Fair Trade Commission Investigations and Inquiries / Antitrust Compliance and Investigations / Vertical Restraints and Abuse of Superior Bargaining Position / Subcontracting and Misrepresentations / Antitrust Investigations (Overseas) / Antitrust Private Enforcement (Overseas) / General Civil Litigation / Finance/investment-related Disputes / Overseas Disputes and Litigation
Languages
Japanese / English
Office
Tokyo
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Overview

Publications & Seminars

Awards

Admitted

Japan (2014) and New York (2021)

Bar Association

Daini Tokyo Bar Association

Education

Keio University (LL.B, 2010)
The University of Tokyo, School of Law (J.D., 2012)
The Legal Training and Research Institute of the Supreme Court of Japan
Columbia Law School (LL.M. 2020, Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar)

Background

Kirkland & Ellis LLP (Chicago) (March 2022-August 2022)

Publications

  • "Survey Report on Foreign Systems that May Affect the Proper Handling of Specified User Information," Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (2024)  [Co-author]

  • “Study Report on Overseas Stablecoin Use Cases and Analysis of Related Regulations,” Financial Services Agency (2022) [Co-author]
  • Doing Business 2020, A World Bank Group (2019) [Regional Contributor]
  • "We Attended an International Conference!,” NIBEN Frontier (June, 2018)
  • Doing Business 2016: Measuring Regulatory Quality and Efficiency, A World Bank Group (2015) [Regional Contributor]

Web Articles

Seminars

  • Speaker at a panel entitled "Global Antitrust Perspectives on M&A: Best Practices for Practitioners," hosted by New York State Bar Association, June 28, 2022