Yusuke Nakano
Asia-Pacific Guide 2025
Band 1 : Competition/Antitrust
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About
Provided by Yusuke Nakano
Practice Areas
Yusuke Nakano has broad experience in the areas of antitrust, business dispute resolution, mergers and acquisitions, and intellectual property. He works on all kinds of competition matters, including government investigations, merger filings and various consultations, and has a large number of experiences of working on international competition matters.
Career
Admitted in Japan (1997), New York (2002), U.S. Supreme Court (2023).
Professional Memberships
Dai-ni Tokyo Bar Association (Japan), 1997.
Publications
"Lexology Getting The Deal Through – Intellectual Property & Antitrust 2024" (Japan Chapter)(Law Business Research); "The Merger Control Review, 14th Edition" (Japan Chapter)(Law Business Research); "Getting the Deal Through - Pharmaceutical Antitrust 2022" (Japan Chapter) (Law Business Research); "Competition Inspections in 21 Jurisdictions - Japan Chapter" (Concurrence)
Personal
University of Tokyo (LLB, 1994); Harvard Law School (LLM, 2001).
Chambers Review
Asia-Pacific
Yusuke Nakano leads advice to multinational corporations on merger control issues and anti-competitive conduct investigations. In addition, he handles litigation mandates before the Tokyo High Court to seek revocation of JFTC decisions.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"Yusuke Nakano is probably the leading competition lawyer in Japan. He is always on top of things and on the biggest cases."
"Yusuke Nakano is probably the leading competition lawyer in Japan. He is always on top of things and on the biggest cases."