Of Counsel

Yoichi Kikuchi

Practice Areas

Corporate/M&A; Dispute Resolution; Corporate Governance; International Transactions; Employment; Administrative Law

History

March 1976 Graduated from The University of Tokyo, Faculty of Law (LL.B.)
April 1976 - April 1978 The Legal Training and Research Institute of the Supreme Court of Japan
April 1978 Tokyo District Court, Assistant Judge
July 1980 - July 1981 Assistant Judge Overseas Special Research (dispatched to New Jersey, U.S.A.)
April 1982 General Secretariat of the Supreme Court, Administrative Affairs Bureau
September 1983 Ministry of Justice, Civil Affairs Bureau
February 1988 Embassy of Japan in the Netherlands, First Secretary
March 1991 Ministry of Justice, Civil Affairs Bureau
July 1993 Ministry of Justice, Civil Affairs Bureau, Chief of Civil Division 4
October 1994 Ministry of Justice, Counselor for Civil Affairs
April 1996 Ministry of Justice, Counselor for Civil Affairs and Acting Director of Civil Division 3
July 1996 Ministry of Justice, Counselor for Civil Affairs
September 1996 Secretary for Minister of Justice
June 1998 Tokyo High Court, Judge
April 2000 Tokyo District Court, Chief Judge of Division
August 2004 Yokohama District Court, Chief Judge of Division
June 2006 Ministry of Justice, Director - General of the Judicial System Department
January 2008 Tokyo High Court, Judge
October 2008 Tokyo District Court, Acting Head Tokyo Summary Court, Judge for Judicial Administrative Affairs
March 2010 Head of Tokushima District Court & Family Court
September 2011 Head of Kyoto District Court
June 2013 Tokyo High Court, Chief Judge of Division
October 2017 Head of Hiroshima High Court
August 2018 Retired
November 2018 Registered as attorney-at-law (The Dai-ichi Tokyo Bar Association)
November 2018 Momo-o, Matsuo & Namba