Masafumi Shikakura
Asia-Pacific Guide 2025
Band 4 : Competition/Antitrust
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About
Provided by Masafumi Shikakura
Practice Areas
Masafumi Shikakura is a counsel and leads Clifford Chance’s antitrust practice in Tokyo. He specialises in antitrust law and foreign investment regulations and advises domestic and international companies on Japanese anti-monopoly law as well as Japanese regulations on foreign direct investments and sanctions. He handles multi-jurisdictional merger filing analyses and foreign direct investment filing analyses and coordination with local counsel in various jurisdictions for many transactions.
Masafumi has also gained extensive experience in M&A transactions, in particular cross-border acquisitions and joint ventures. He has advised clients in power and energy, technology, healthcare and various industrial sectors.
Career
Kyoto University (LLB) 2004
Kyoto University Law School (JD) 2006
Admitted as a bengoshi in Japan 2007
Joined Clifford Chance, Tokyo 2008
Secondment to a major Japanese securities company 2009-2010
University of Warwick (LLM) 2012
King's College London (Postgraduate Diploma in EU Competition Law) 2013
Clifford Chance, Brussels 2012
Counsel since 2018
Chambers Review
Asia-Pacific
Masafumi Shikakura is Clifford Chance's head of Japan antitrust. He advises clients on various antitrust matters, with an emphasis on merger control work.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"Masafumi Shikakura is very responsive and able to handle substantive international competition law issues in both English and Japanese, which is very helpful."
"He provides a great level of client service and knowledge of relevant regulations and market practice."
"Masafumi Shikakura is very responsive and able to handle substantive international competition law issues in both English and Japanese, which is very helpful."
"He provides a great level of client service and knowledge of relevant regulations and market practice."
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