Profile
Yuji Ogiwara is Co-Chair of the Japan Practice and focuses his practice on various kinds of disputes (including risk management practice), corporate and employment-related matters, employment litigation, labor negotiations, investigations and compliance matters. He is a litigator with more than 20 years of experience advising multinational companies on international employment law and corporate risk management challenges, and also advises multinational headquarters on cross-border strategies addressing international employment law challenges. He advises clients on a broad range of issues, including corporate matters, mergers and acquisitions, commercial trade, and the antitrust issues that arise from unfair trade practices.
Capabilities
Experience
- Represented multinational white goods corporation from its acquisition of a Japanese corporation's consumer appliances business in Japan and Southeast Asia.°
- Represented Japanese subsidiary of a global pharmaceutical company, on issues relating to non-compete and confidentiality provisions in the former employment contracts of his client's employees.°
- Represented global pharmaceutical company before the Japanese labor tribunal over collective bargaining issues that arose in relation to its sale of a business division to a private equity firm.°
- Represented global automotive supplier in its acquisition of the Japanese subsidiary of a German automotive manufacturer.°
- Represented Japanese food and beverage operator in JPY27 billion dispute concerning payment of the purchase price of shares arising out of the sale of a business unit.°
- Represented Japanese subsidiary of a leading French automotive parts manufacturer in breach of warranty and tort claims for product defect liability against a Japanese automotive parts manufacturer.°
- Represented U.S.-based clothing retailer and its wholly owned subsidiary in Japan, against alleged breach of contract claims involving the Japanese and Korean luxury goods apparel markets, in the Tokyo District Court.°
- Represented claimants, manufacturers of medical equipment, in a dispute with a Japanese joint venture partner, concerning trade debts and breaches of the joint venture agreement.°
°The above representations were handled by Mr. Ogiwara prior to his joining GT Tokyo Horitsu Jimusho.
Recognition & Leadership
- Listed, The Best Lawyers in Japan, Labor & Employment Law; Litigation, 2014-2025
- Listed, The Legal 500 Asia-Pacific Guide, Employment (Leading Individuals), 2016
- Listed, Chambers Global, Dispute Resolution (Japan), 2014-2015
- Listed, The Legal 500 Asia-Pacific Guide, Intellectual Property and Employment, 2014-2015
- Listed, Chambers Asia-Pacific Guide, Employment (Leading Individuals), Band 1, 2013-2015
- Listed, The Legal 500 Asia-Pacific Guide, Intellectual Property and Dispute Resolution, 2013-2014
- Member, Daini Tokyo Bar Association
- Member, ACCJ (The American Chamber of Commerce in Japan)
Credentials
- LL.B., University of Tokyo, Faculty of Law, 1987
- Japan
- Japanese
- English
News, Insights & Events
Yuji is a contributor to the GT L&E Blog 