Overview
With a focus on domestic and cross-border mergers and acquisitions and dispute resolution (including domestic litigation and international arbitration, mediation and negotiation), Jun Kawanami also assists clients with a wide range of corporate legal matters (corporate law, labor and employment, compliance, sustainability and startup support) as well as general civil cases.
Drawing on his experience studying at Harvard Law School and working at major law firms in Singapore and the Philippines, Mr. Kawanami handles a variety of international commercial transactions, including cases involving the acquisition of businesses and entry into foreign markets, as well as post-entry disputes, by Japanese companies in North America, Europe, and Southeast Asia.
Mr. Kawanami’s life’s work is to provide the best legal advice to assist clients, whether big companies or small, in accomplishing their Sustainable Development Goals in any way possible and to help solve society’s biggest issues, as well as with respect to Environmental, Social and Governance goals and particularly “Business and Human Rights.”
Mr. Kawanami listens intently and sincerely to his clients’ needs and strives at all times to provide advice from the client’s perspective.
Work Highlights
- International Arbitration in Singapore
- Claims for Damages against a Foreign Pharmaceutical Company
- The Transfer of the Business, including a Plant, of an Indian Subsidiary of a Japanese Company
- DAI-DAN CO., LTD.: The Investment in Presico Engineering Pte. Ltd. – A Singapore-based Company
- Response to an Unsolicited Bid Proposal
- International Arbitration in Singapore
Education & Professional Career
| Jan 2024 – Present | Kitahama Partners, Partner |
| Oct 2021 | Admitted to practice in the State of New York |
| May 2021 – Apr 2022 | Seconded to Rajah & Tann Singapore LLP |
| May 2020 | Harvard Law School (LL.M.) |
| May 2016 – Aug 2016 | Visiting Attorney at ACCRALAW (Manila Head Office, Philippines) |
| Jan 2014 | Joined Kitahama Partners |
| Dec 2013 | Graduated from the Legal Training and Research Institute of the Supreme Court of Japan; Admitted to practice in Japan |
| Mar 2012 | Osaka University (LL.B., summa cum laude) |
Other Activities
| Jul 2024 – Present | Auditor, Certified NPO Terra Renaissance |
| Apr 2018 – Mar 2019 | Adjunct Professor, Osaka School of International Public Policy, Osaka University (Basics of Negotiation, Negotiation I & II) |
Memberships
- Inter Pacific Bar Association
- Japan Association of Arbitrators (JAA)