{"id":852,"date":"2019-06-29T00:35:41","date_gmt":"2019-06-28T15:35:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kitahama.or.jp\/english\/?post_type=professional&#038;p=852"},"modified":"2025-06-03T16:08:30","modified_gmt":"2025-06-03T07:08:30","slug":"yusuke-takaoka","status":"publish","type":"professional","link":"https:\/\/www.kitahama.or.jp\/english\/professionals\/yusuke-takaoka\/","title":{"rendered":"Yusuke Takaoka"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Although Yusuke Takaoka has extensive experience in handling negotiations and litigation related to general civil matters, as well as bankruptcy and reorganization cases, he has also handled numerous cases relating to corporate law, such as mergers &amp; acquisitions, shareholder meetings, shareholder disputes in privately-held companies (including lawsuits and other matters with respect to shareholder meetings), court-appointed inspectors (assistants) for shareholders&#8217; meetings, and deputy directors.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In addition, during a three-year secondment to a securities company, Mr. Takaoka was involved in numerous M&amp;A transactions as a financial advisor for listed companies, gaining a great deal of M&amp;A experience from the financial advisor\u2019s perspective, such as with respect to corporate valuation and schedule management.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Taking advantage of this experience, Mr. Takaoka\u2019s practice focuses on M&amp;A transactions, in addition to the corporate law-related matters he handled prior to his secondment.&nbsp;<\/p>\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 2024 \u2013 Present<\/td><td>Kitahama Partners, Partner<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Mar 2020<\/td><td>Seconded to a private company<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Jan 2015<\/td><td>Joined Kitahama Partners<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Dec 2014<\/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 2013<\/td><td>Kyoto University Law School (J.D.)<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Mar 2011<\/td><td>Kyoto University (LL.B.)<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":42,"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-852","professional","type-professional","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.2 - 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