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髙木 謙吾
髙木 謙吾

Kengo TAKAKI

  • LPC Partner
  • Fukuoka

He has a track record of being involved in many domestic and international M&A projects, mainly for clients in the Kyushu and Chugoku regions. He has provided legal services that clients truly need in a prompt and polite manner.

Upon entering Nishimura & Asahi in 2004, he worked at the Tokyo office for clients both in Japan and overseas on corporate legal affairs in general, focusing on M&A projects. After studying abroad in the United States, he decided to work at the Fukuoka office, which had just opened, in order to provide valuable legal services as "Nishimura & Asahi", targeting companies in the Kyushu and Chugoku regions as clients, and began working at the Fukuoka office in 2014. At the Fukuoka office, he has been involved in many domestic and overseas M&A projects targeting various industries, mainly for clients in the Kyushu and Chugoku regions. In addition, he has been conducting research on various laws and regulations, including the Companies Act and the Financial Instruments and Exchange Act, and provided advice on various legal problems regarding the business of the clients. Furthermore, he has prepared and reviewed sales agreements, service agreements, license agreements, confidentiality agreements and other agreements in Japanese and English.

Representative Work

  • 2017
    Acquisition of Japan Automobile Auction Inc. by USS Co,. Ltd.
  • 2014
    Subscription of third-party allocation of shares in Wuthelam Holdings Pte Ltd. and gaining corporate control over the Asian companies that are in joint ventures with the above company by Nippon Paint Holdings Co., Ltd.

Publications

News

Education

2012
Northwestern University School of Law (LL.M.)
2003
The University of Tokyo (LL.B.)
1998
Kumamoto Prefectural Seiseikou Senior High School

Professional Experience

A Japanese company in the US