{"id":589,"date":"2019-06-26T02:13:26","date_gmt":"2019-06-25T17:13:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kitahama.or.jp\/english\/?post_type=professional&#038;p=589"},"modified":"2026-03-10T17:10:34","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T08:10:34","slug":"hiroko-takiguchi","status":"publish","type":"professional","link":"https:\/\/www.kitahama.or.jp\/english\/professionals\/hiroko-takiguchi\/","title":{"rendered":"Hiroko Takiguchi"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>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&amp;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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Work Highlights<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kitahama.or.jp\/english\/news\/4831\/\">Court Appointed Trustee for the Corporate Reorganization Proceedings of a Company Engaged in the Civil Engineering Construction and Heavy Machinery Business<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Provision of legal support in M&amp;A<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Provision of guidance on general shareholders meetings<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Review of contracts<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Legal check of new business models<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Labor-related legal affairs (consultation, labor disputes adjudication, litigation, request for examination by regulatory commission)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Various types of administrative litigation<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Comprehensive municipal external audits (Audit Assistant)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Corporate Rehabilitation Trustee Representative (golf course, restaurant business, transport industry, supermarkets, construction and engineering)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Education \uff06 Professional Career<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table><tbody><tr><td>Jan 2003 &#8211; Present<\/td><td>Kitahama Partners, Partner<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Mar 1992<\/td><td>Graduated from the Legal Training and Research Institute of the Supreme Court of Japan;  Admitted to practice in Japan; Joined Kitahama Partners <\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Mar 1990<\/td><td>Resigned from the Osaka Municipal Office<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Apr 1989<\/td><td>Employed at the Osaka Municipal Office<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Mar 1986<\/td><td>Osaka University (LL.B.)<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Other Activities<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table><tbody><tr><td>Jun 2025 \u2013 Present<\/td><td>Chairperson, Steering Committee of the Boundary Issues Consulting Center Osaka<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Mar 2025 \u2013 Present<\/td><td>Outside Director, Ezaki Glico Co., Ltd.<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Apr 2023 \u2013 Present<\/td><td>Member, The Expert Meeting to Strengthen the Governance of International Sports Events in Tokyo<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Jan 2023 \u2013 Present<\/td><td>Advisory Board Member, Osaka University Law School<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Jun 2022 \u2013 Present<\/td><td>Outside Auditor, Mitsuboshi Belting Ltd.<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Mar 2022 \u2013Present<\/td><td>Outside Auditor, SENSHUKAI CO., LTD.<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>2022<\/td><td>Director, Kinki Federation of Bar Associations<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>2021<\/td><td>Executive Director, Kinki Federation of Bar Associations<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>2021<\/td><td>Vice President, Osaka Bar Association<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Sep 2020 \u2013 Aug 2024<\/td><td>Auditor, National University Corporation Kyoto Institute of Technology<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>2020<\/td><td>Representative, Japan Federation of Bar Associations<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Apr 2018 \u2013 Mar 2021<\/td><td>Specially Appointed Professor, Osaka University Law School<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Apr 2016 \u2013 Jun 2024&nbsp;<\/td><td>Member, Committee for Personnel Affairs Inspection, etc. of Osaka City<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Apr 2012 \u2013 Present<\/td><td>Member, Urban Planning Council of Minoh City<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Apr 2012 \u2013 Mar 2024<\/td><td>Member, Family Conciliation Committee, Osaka Family Court<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>May 2005 \u2013 May 2021<\/td><td>Outside Director, Medical Ikkou Co., Ltd.<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Memberships<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Japan Corporate Governance Network<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Japan Auditor Association<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The Family Business Advisors Association Japan<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Japan Institute for Condominium Living<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":4,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-589","professional","type-professional","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Hiroko Takiguchi -partner - Kitahama Partners<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Hiroko Takiguchi is a Partner mainly handling cases in the areas of general corporate law, litigation, and administrative law. 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