Shoko Miura has wide areas of experience, from general corporate, dispute resolution to non-corporate and criminal matters. Her practice focuses primarily on international matters, contract negotiations and IT industry as well as inheritance, personal claims and family matters.

Spending childhood in Japan, Thailand and in U.S. (including one year as an exchange student staying with an American family), 6 years at a global IT company as an engineer / project manager, and total of more than 3 years seconding at the legal department of another global IT company, Shoko’s unique background provides uncapped perspectives as well as fluent English communication and negotiation skills. Her motto is to provide high quality service to all assignments regardless of size, and to voice the unvoiced. She is a backpacker, a biker and a yoga lover.

Education & Professional Career

Key Experiences:

• Legal consultation and contract negotiations for American companies expanding into Japan / Japanese companies expanding into India, U.S. and EU
• Dispute resolution of Japanese company’s oversea subsidiaries in EU
• Legal counseling in relation to website services
• Dispute resolution of an IT-system company
• Dispute resolution of foreign residents in Japan / Japanese residents in foreign countries
• Inheritance matters

Jun 2016	Joined Kitahama Partners
Dec 2011	Graduated from the Legal Training and Research Institute of the Supreme Court of Japan; Admitted to practice in Japan; Associate at law firms
Mar 2010	Waseda Law School (J.D.)
Apr 2001 – Mar 2007	IT Engineer / Project Manager at IBM Japan, Ltd.
Mar 2001	Keio University, Faculty of Environment and Information Studies
Mar 1997	Tokyo Gakugei University Senior High School
Mar 1996	Pioneer Central School (New York, USA. Foreign Exchange Program)