Hiroko Takiguchi is a Partner mainly handling cases in the areas of general corporate law, litigation, and administrative law. She has experience in providing legal advice in a wide variety of business transactions, as well as representing her clients in M&A transactions. Moreover, she often provides legal support to administrative bodies, including local governments. Utilizing her expertise in corporate governance, she has been serving as an outside director of corporations and a specially appointed professor at a national university corporation law school.

Work Highlights

• Court Appointed Trustee for the Corporate Reorganization Proceedings of a Company Engaged in the Civil Engineering Construction and Heavy Machinery Business
• Provision of legal support in M&A
• Provision of guidance on general shareholders meetings
• Review of contracts
• Legal check of new business models
• Labor-related legal affairs (consultation, labor disputes adjudication, litigation, request for examination by regulatory commission)
• Various types of administrative litigation
• Comprehensive municipal external audits (Audit Assistant)
• Corporate Rehabilitation Trustee Representative (golf course, restaurant business, transport industry, supermarkets, construction and engineering)

Education & Professional Career

Jan 2003 – Present	Kitahama Partners, Partner
Mar 1992	Graduated from the Legal Training and Research Institute of the Supreme Court of Japan; Admitted to practice in Japan; Joined Kitahama Partners
Mar 1990	Resigned from the Osaka Municipal Office
Apr 1989	Employed at the Osaka Municipal Office
Mar 1986	Osaka University (LL.B.)

Other Activities

• Specially Appointed Professor, Osaka University Law School
• Member, Headquarters for Promotion of Gender Equality, Japan Federation of Bar Associations
• Member, Legal Training Committee, Osaka Bar Association
• Member, Headquarters for Promoting Gender Equality, Osaka Bar Association
• Member, Family Conciliation Committee, Osaka Family Court
• Member, Committee for Personnel Affairs Inspection, etc. of Osaka City
• Member, Urban Planning Council of Minoh City
• Conciliator for Settlement, General Dispute Resolution Center
• Mediator, Center for Promoting Fair Subcontracting Transactions, National Association of Trade Promotion for Small and Medium Enterprises

Memberships

• Japan Corporate Governance Network
• Japan Institute for Condominium Living
• National Network of Insolvency Attorneys
• Japan Auditor Association