Biography: Competition

Shigeyoshi Ezaki is a partner at Anderson Mori & Tomotsune with a general corporate practice, which includes advising and assisting Japanese and foreign clients with respect to Japanese competition law, trade regulation, intellectual property law and corporate law. He represents many companies involved in cross-border mergers and acquisitions as well as joint venture arrangements. He also assists many clients in regulatory investigations with respect to price fixing and similar serious alleged violations before the Japan Fair Trade Commission as well as overseas regulatory authorities such as the US Department of Justice and the European Commission. He also represents many companies in the area of distribution agreements and licence agreements.

Mr Ezaki is a graduate of the University of Tokyo (LLB, 1992) and Columbia University School of Law (LLM, 1998). He is admitted to the bar in both Japan and New York. He is co-author of 'New Japanese Merger Guidelines' (Global Competition Review July/August 2004), 'Merger Control in Japan' (The Asia Pacific Antitrust Review 2010) and 'Leniency for Japan' (Global Competition Review December 2005/January 2006).