{"id":713,"date":"2019-06-26T07:12:53","date_gmt":"2019-06-25T22:12:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kitahama.or.jp\/english\/?post_type=professional&#038;p=713"},"modified":"2026-04-09T09:37:58","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T00:37:58","slug":"akinori-tani","status":"publish","type":"professional","link":"https:\/\/www.kitahama.or.jp\/english\/professionals\/akinori-tani\/","title":{"rendered":"Akinori Tani"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Akinori Tani is a Partner specializing in corporate matters and corporate law. Through his legal practice relating to mergers and acquisitions, business rehabilitation, and risk management, Mr. Tani provides clients with practical advice, including aspects of management.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mr. Tani has gained extensive experience and profound knowledge in general financial matters through his experience of having worked for a bank prior to commencing his legal practice and also having been seconded to a financial institution as an attorney.<\/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\/6246\/\">Investigation into Inappropriate Accounting Treatment within the Air Water Group by a Special Investigation Committee<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kitahama.or.jp\/english\/news\/6015\/\">Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Ltd.:&nbsp;Additional&nbsp;Investigation by the Special Investigation Committee<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kitahama.or.jp\/english\/news\/5269\/\">Kawasaki Heavy&nbsp;Industries,&nbsp;Ltd.:&nbsp;Investigation by&nbsp;the&nbsp;Special Investigation Committee<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kitahama.or.jp\/english\/news\/4939\/\">Investigation into a Car Manufacturing Company concerning Fraudulent Activities<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kitahama.or.jp\/english\/news\/4935\/\">Responses to Cybersecutiry Incidents in Medical Institutions<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kitahama.or.jp\/english\/news\/4916\/\">The Kansai Electric Power Company, Incorporated: Investigation by a Third-party Committee<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kitahama.or.jp\/english\/news\/4914\/\">M&amp;A Case between an EV-related Company and a Car Manufacturing Company<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kitahama.or.jp\/english\/news\/4868\/\">Internal Investigation regarding the Leak of Personal Information at a Major Real Estate Management Company<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kitahama.or.jp\/english\/news\/4848\/\">DAIWA HOUSE INDUSTRY CO., LTD.: Investigation by an External Investigation Committee<\/a><\/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>Feb 2026 &#8211; Present<\/td><td>Kitahama Partners, Representative<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Jan 2018 &#8211; Present<\/td><td>Kitahama Partners, Partner<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Jan 2011<\/td><td>Joined Kitahama Partners <\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Dec 2010<\/td><td>Graduated from the Legal Training and Research Institute of the Supreme Court of Japan; Admitted to practice in Japan<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Mar 2009<\/td><td>Ritsumeikan University School of Law (J.D.)<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Apr 2000<\/td><td>Employed at the Industrial Bank of Japan, Limited<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Mar 2000<\/td><td>The University of Tokyo (LL.B.)<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":32,"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-713","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>Akinori Tani - partner - Kitahama Partners<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Akinori Tani is a Partner specializing in corporate matters and corporate law. 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