Etsuko Hara

Practice Areas

Etsuko Hara is a partner at Anderson Mori & Tomotsune with broad experience in the area of antitrust, including international cartel cases, multi-jurisdictional merger filings as well as distribution arrangements, franchising, and strategic alliances. She handles various inbound and outbound cross border transactions, especially in the form of direct investment, joint ventures, and distribution, license and franchise agreements. She also teaches at the Law School of Tokyo University.

Career

Admitted in Japan (2001), New York (2007)

Professional Memberships

Daini Tokyo Bar Association

Publications

"Introduction to Japanese Business Law & Practice Sixth Edition" (Anderson Mori & Tomotsune, 2024);

"Doing Business In... 2024 - Law & Practice" (Chambers and Partners, 2024);

"Panoramic - Franchise-Japan" (Law Business Research, 2024);

"International Trade 2023" (Chambers and Partners, 2023);

"Japanese Anti-monopoly Act - Annotated（Edition 2）" (KOUBUNDOU Publishers Inc., 2022);

"Analysis of recent movements and the complaint filed US DOJ et al. against Google based on Article 2 of Sherman Act" (Business Houmu (Vol.21 No.3), 2021);

Others.

Personal

University of Tokyo (LLB, 1998); Columbia University School of Law (LLM, 2006).