Professionals
Of Counsel
Yoshio Otani
03-3288-2080
yoshio.otani@mmn-law.gr.jp
Practice Areas
Corporate/M&A;Dispute Resolution;
Restructuring/Insolvency
History
| September 1970 | Graduated from The University of Tokyo, Faculty of Law (LL.B.) |
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| April 1971 - April 1973 | The Legal Training and Research Institute of the Supreme Court of Japan |
| April 1973 | Osaka District Court, Assistant Judge |
| June 1976 - June 1977 | Assistant Judge Overseas Special Research (dispatched to France) |
| July 1977 - July 1980 | Hiroshima District Court, Assistant Judge |
| August 1980 - July 1982 | General Secretariat of the Supreme Court, Personnel Affairs Bureau |
| August 1982 - March 1983 | Tokyo District Court, Assistant Judge |
| 1983 | Naha District Court, Family Court, Ishigaki Branch Chief and Hirara Branch Chief |
| 1984 | Tokyo District Court, Judge |
| 1985 | Ministry of Justice, Civil Affairs Bureau |
| 1986 | Ministry of Justice, Counselor for Civil Affairs (in charge of Corporate Law) |
| 1992 | Tokyo High Court, Judge |
| 1994 | Nagoya District Court, Chief Judge of Division |
| 1998 | Tokyo District Court, Chief Judge of Division |
| December 1998 | Financial Reconstruction Commission, Deputy Secretary-General |
| 2001 | Tokyo District Court, Chief Judge of Division (Civil Division 8) |
| 2005 | Head of Ootsu District Court & Family Court |
| 2006 | Tokyo High Court, Chief Judge of Division (Civil Division 7) |
| July 2010 | Retired |
| October 2010 | Registered as attorney-at-law (The Dai-ichi Tokyo Bar Association) |
| October 2010 | Momo-o, Matsuo & Namba |
| April 2011 | Professor, Surugadai University Law School |
| April 2011 | Chairman of the General Management Committee of the Dispute Resolution Center for Nuclear Damages |
| April 2012 | Dean, Professor of Law at Surugadai University Law School |