Hiroshi Yamauchi
Asia-Pacific Guide 2025
Spotlight : Crisis Management: Domestic
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About
Provided by Hiroshi Yamauchi
Practice Areas
Crisis Management, Investigation, Disputes/Dispute Resolution and Corporate Governance
Career
Mori Hamada & Matsumoto (2007 to present); Worked at with Kirkland & Ellis LLP (2014-15).
Professional Memberships
admitted in Japan, 2007; NewYork, 2015
Publications
"Current Status and Issues Concerning Misconduct Investigations - Issues on Independent Committees, etc. ",2024: "Initial Responses to Fraud and Misconduct by Category ",2023: "Measures for Preventing Recurrence of Fraud and Misconduct", 2021: "Commentary on Amendment to the Whistleblower Protection Act and Practical Means for Dealing with Those Amendments", 2020: "Practical Formats for Crisis Management Cases", 2019: "Dealing with Cases of Fraud and Scandals, and Attorney-Client Privilege", 2019: "Japanese Plea Bargaining System and Practical Corporate Responses: Based on the First Case Reported in July 2018", 2018: "Recent Crisis Management Practices in Cases of Corporate Fraud and Scandals, and Utilization of Data Analysis Techniques in Investigations", 2017: "Compliance for Bank Clerks [Expanded 4st ed.]", 2014.
Personal
Member of the Discipline Committee (Daini Tokyo Bar Association) (2018-)
Founder and Chief Secretary of the Young Legal Alumni Association (Icho-kai) in the Legal Alumni Association of the University of Tokyo (2018-)
Legal Counsel of Next Generation RPA AI Consortium (2021-)
Executive Director of the Legal Alumni Association of the University of Tokyo (2022-)
Member of Study Group for Ensuring Consumer Product Safety, Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (2023-)
Member of the Subcommittee on Product Safety, Committee for Security and Consumer Products Safety of the Industrial Structure Council, the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (2024-)
Chambers Review
Asia-Pacific
Hiroshi Yamauchi is a well-regarded practitioner with extensive experience in the areas of crisis management and dispute resolution. He is co-head of the firm's crisis management team.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"Hiroshi Yamauchi has excellent professionalism, knowledge and personality. He is truly trusted by dozens of companies."
"Hiroshi Yamauchi has excellent professionalism, knowledge and personality. He is truly trusted by dozens of companies."