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Kei Umebayashi

Kei Umebayashi

Asia-Pacific 2026

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About

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Practice Areas

Corporate Crisis Management, Compliance

Career

・2022- Professor, University of Tokyo Graduate Schools for Law and Politics

・2020- Outside Auditor, ITOHAM YONEKYU HOLDINGS INC.

・2018-2019 Member of Task Force organized in the Railway Bureau of MLIT

・2017-2018 Member of Task Force (final inspection issue) organized in the Road Transport Bureau of MLIT

・2016-2017 Member of Task Force (fuel consumption issue) organized in the Road Transport Bureau of MLIT

・2014-2021 Part-time professor of Keio University Law School

・2014-2021 Member of the Independent Committee of Japan Sport Council

・2011-2012 Counselor of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications

・2010 Partner of Nishimura & Asahi

・2007 Resigned from Public Prosecutor, Registered as an Attorney-at-Law, Joined Nishimura & Asahi

・2005-2007 Executive Assistant to Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary

・2004-2005 Public Prosecutor, Secretarial Division, Ministry of Justice

・2003-2004 Public Prosecutor, Chiba District Public Prosecutors’ Office

・2002-2003 Public Prosecutor, Criminal Affairs Bureau of the Ministry of Justice

・1999-2002 First Secretary, Japanese Embassy, U.K.

・1998-1999 Public Prosecutor, Criminal Affairs Bureau of the Ministry of Justice

・1991-1997 Public Prosecutor, Tokyo, Fukuoka, Yokohama and Shizuoka District Public Prosecutors’ Offices

Professional Memberships

Admitted: Japan (2007)

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Chambers Asia & Pacific

Crisis Management: Domestic - Japan

Band 2
Band 2

Individual Editorial
Kei Umebayashi draws on his experience working at the Special Investigative Section of the Tokyo District Public Prosecutors Office and is adept at handling trade secrets and intellectual property and antitrust disputes.

Ranked Individuals at Nishimura & Asahi (67)

Asia-Pacific Region

Japan

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