{"id":889,"date":"2019-06-29T00:44:59","date_gmt":"2019-06-28T15:44:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kitahama.or.jp\/english\/?post_type=professional&#038;p=889"},"modified":"2025-11-05T13:59:25","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T04:59:25","slug":"takashi-komatsubara","status":"publish","type":"professional","link":"https:\/\/www.kitahama.or.jp\/english\/professionals\/takashi-komatsubara\/","title":{"rendered":"Takashi Komatsubara"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\u00a0Takashi Komatsubara handles general corporate legal matters. In particular, he specializes in the field of competition law such as antitrust law, subcontracting law (the Act on Ensuring Proper Transactions Involving Small and Medium Business Operators (tentative translation)) , and the Act Against Unjustifiable Premiums and Misleading Presentations (i.e. responding to investigations by a public authority as an agent of the company, conducting internal investigations, and providing support concerning the filing procedures in M&amp;A cases, etc.), as well as handling M&amp;A cases.<br>With respect to the field of competition law, Mr. Komatsubara is able to provide practical advice and solutions based on his in-depth knowledge of the practices of a regulatory authority, such as the Japan Fair Trade Commission, gained from his experience working as a fixed-term official in the Investigation Bureau of such agency, and being involved in investigations such as administrative investigations and dispositions, including on-site inspections of bid rigging, investigations into cartels, and other violations of the Act on Prohibition of Private Monopolization and Maintenance of Fair Trade, as well as litigation-related services.<\/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\/4933\/\">Lawsuits against a Global Pharmaceutical Company<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>M&amp;A matter of a leading Japanese company<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Claim for unpaid wages involving a leading Japanese company<\/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>Jul 2023 \u2013 Jun 2025<\/td><td>Worked in the Investigation Bureau, General Secretariat, the Japan Fair Trade Commission<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Jan 2018<\/td><td>Joined Kitahama Partners &nbsp;<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Dec 2017<\/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 2016<\/td><td>Kyoto University Law School (J.D.) &nbsp;<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Mar 2014<\/td><td>Doshisha University (LL.B.) &nbsp;<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":69,"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-889","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>Takashi Komatsubara -associate - Kitahama Partners<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"\u00a0Takashi Komatsubara handles general corporate legal matters. 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