Profile: Akinori Uesugi

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Biography: Competition

Akinori Uesugi is a senior consultant in Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer's antitrust, competition and trade (ACT) group, based in the Tokyo office. He joined the firm in July 2006.

Akinori started his career at the Fair Trade Commission of Japan in 1970. He held positions as deputy secretary general for general affairs, director general of the investigation bureau and director general of economic affairs, before appointment in June 2003 as secretary general of the Fair Trade Commission of Japan. He held this position until the end of June 2006. During his time as secretary general he played a key role in making significant amendments to Japan's Antimonopoly Act, changes that have led directly to stricter antitrust enforcement in Japan.

Akinori was educated at both the University of Tokyo and the Law School of the University of Pennsylvania, where he graduated in 1973 (LLM). He teaches as a professor at the School of International Corporate Strategy of Hitotsubashi University and is the author of numerous books and articles in Japanese and English. He speaks English and Japanese.

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer is a leading international law firm with a network of 26 offices across Europe, the US, Asia and the Middle East providing a full range of legal services worldwide. Members of the firm's 250-strong ACT group are based in Amsterdam, Beijing, Berlin, Bratislava, Brussels, Cologne, Düsseldorf, Hong Kong, London, Madrid, Moscow, Paris, Rome, Shanghai, Tokyo, Vienna and Washington, DC.