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Taro Yamada

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Taro Yamada

Bar admissions
Daiichi Tokyo Bar (2005)
Languages
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Profile

Taro focuses on M&A and corporate work for clients ranging from listed companies to high-growth businesses. He prefers to be involved from the earliest stage of a deal, staying with it through structuring, addressing the risks due diligence surfaces, negotiation and closing.

In crisis management and compliance he has handled everything from first-response when an issue surfaces, through supporting independent investigation committees, to designing measures that prevent recurrence. In a crisis his aim is not only the legally correct answer but a landing the client can keep trading from.

Education & career

2003

LL.B., University of Tokyo

2005

Admitted in Japan (Daiichi Tokyo Bar Association)

2011

LL.M., Columbia Law School

2011–2012

Seconded to a law firm in New York

2016

Partner, Hengdu Law Office

Publications

2023

"W&I Insurance in Cross-Border M&A"

Shoji Homu (co-author)

2021

"Designing Independent Investigation Committees"

Business Homu

Lectures & seminars

2024

Recent Developments in M&A Practice

Japan CFO Association

2022

First Response to Corporate Misconduct

Keiei Hoyukai