M&A and Private Equity Practice Tops 2023 Year-End League Tables
Latham’s #1 rankings reinforce firm’s position as a global transactional powerhouse.
Hiroaki Takagi advises Japanese and international companies and private equity firms on complex M&A transactions with a Japan nexus.
Dual qualified in Japan and the US, Hiroaki draws on more than two decades of experience advising clients on:
He distills the complexities of Japanese market norms and regulatory frameworks into commercially focused legal advice for international clients. Hiroaki leverages his extensive experience navigating cross-border M&A to guide Japanese clients in transactions globally.
Hiroaki brings an in-depth understanding of public company law garnered from his secondment experience with the Civil Affairs Bureau of the Japanese Ministry of Justice. In this role, he helped to oversee a major reform of the Companies Act in Japan, which passed into law in 2014.
Hiroaki is a member of the Dai-Ichi Tokyo Bar Association in Japan and the New York State Bar Association. He is Chairman of the Legal Education Committee of the Dai-Ichi Tokyo Bar Association and has served as a visiting professor at Gakushuin University Law School, where he lectured on M&A law. Hiroaki also actively participates with the Inter-Pacific Bar Association and serves on the Organizing Committee for its annual conference in Tokyo.
Hiroaki ’s experience includes representing:
*Matter handled prior to joining Latham
Latham’s #1 rankings reinforce firm’s position as a global transactional powerhouse.