Hiroki Wakabayashi

Wakabayashi is primarily representing both Japanese and non-Japanese financial institutions, audit corporations and business corporations in transaction disputes, professional responsibility disputes, labor relation disputes and other types of disputes, based on his experience as a lawyer to date as well as a district court judge. In addition to these corporate related disputes, he also practices in the areas of inheritance and domestic relations.

Admitted in Japan (1989), New York (1994).

Dai-ni Tokyo Bar Association (Japan).

Recent Legislation on the IT-enablement of Civil Procedure and the Possibility of Questioning Overseas Witnesses (NBL 2024), co-authored Chambers Litigation 2026 (Japan Chapter) - Law and Practice, The “Fair Price” of the Stock in the Two-stage Cash-out Transaction (Japan Business Law Review 2024), the Chapter on professional responsibility of judges of the Law and Ethics of Jurists, 4th edition(The University of Nagoya Press 2019), Damage Claim against an Airline (Shin Saibanjitsumu Taikei Vol.14 (Seirin Shoin), 2025) and Others.

University of Tokyo (LLB, 1987); University of Chicago Law School (LLM, 1993)