Hiroyuki Tezuka

Practice Areas

International Arbitration

International Litigation

Alternative Dispute Resolution

Corporate Disputes

Securities Litigation/Disputes Related to Financial Products

IP Litigation

PL Litigation

Insurance Related Disputes

Investor-State Dispute Settlement

Career

Partner, Nishimura & Asahi (Gaikokuho Kyodo Jigyo)

Professional Memberships

Admitted: Japan, 1986; New York, 1993

Publications

･"Rise of Hybrid Arbitration/Mediation in the Era of the Singapore Mediation Convention," International Arbitration: When East Meets West - Liber Amicorum Michael Moser, Kluwer Law International, 2020

･"Exploring the future of commercial dispute resolution in Asia: Accelerating efficiency and effectiveness in ADR," Asian Journal of Law and Society, Cambridge University Press, 2022

･"Japan" (chapter), Post-award Interest in the Asia-Pacific, Kluwer Law International, 2023

･"Arbitrability of International IP Disputes," The Guide to IP Arbitration – Third Edition, Global Arbitration Review, Law Business Research, 2024

Personal

Hiroyuki heads the international dispute resolution practice of Nishimura & Asahi. He specializes in international commercial litigation, arbitration, and mediation. He has represented many international clients, including multi-national manufacturers, banking and securities firms, insurance companies, and news media in disputes involving M&A, antitrust laws, corporate governance, insurance laws, intellectual property, defamation, joint ventures, licensing, construction, and other commercial matters, as well as international bankruptcy. He has been involved in a number of international arbitrations as counsel, sole arbitrator, and co-arbitrator (including chair) before the ICC, JCAA, AAA-ICDR, VIAC, KCAB, and SIAC.

Hiroyuki serves as Vice President of the Japan Association of Arbitrators and as Chief Director of the Japan International Mediation Center in Kyoto, was Vice Chair of the Arbitration Committee of the IBA Legal Practice Division, and was Co-Chair of the Dispute Resolution and Arbitration Committee at the IPBA from 2016 to 2020. From 2013 to 2016, he taught international arbitration and international dispute resolution at the University of Tokyo, School of Law as a visiting professor. He also served as a member of the International Court of Arbitration of the ICC (with his second term ending in June 2024), and has been a Council Member of the ICC Institute of World Business Law since 2018. In addition, he has been a member of SIAC’s Court of Arbitration since 2013.

Languages Spoken

Japanese and English

Experience

2023- Chief Director, Japan International Mediation Center in Kyoto (JIMC-Kyoto)

2021-2022 Deputy Chief Director, JIMC-Kyoto

2021- Vice President, Japan Association of Arbitrators (JAA)

2020- Member, Task Force on “ADR and Arbitration” of the ICC Commission on Arbitration and ADR, International Chamber of Commerce (ICC)

2018-2024 Member, International Court of Arbitration of the ICC

2018- Council Member, ICC Institute of World Business Law

2016- Fellow, Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (FCIArb)

2013- Member, SIAC Court of Arbitration, Singapore International Arbitration Centre (SIAC)

2013-2016 Visiting Professor (International Commercial Arbitration), University of Tokyo, School of Law

Education

Awards