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Provided by Masafumi Shikakura
Masafumi Shikakura is Head of the Japan Antitrust team in our Tokyo office, working on both antitrust and M&A mandates. His antitrust work covers merger filings, foreign investment regulations and tech antitrust, and his M&A work relates to renewable energy matters, outbound transactions for Japanese corporates and inbound transactions for global clients.
Kyoto University (LLB) 2004
Kyoto University Law School (JD) 2006
Admitted as a bengoshi in Japan 2007
Joined Clifford Chance, Tokyo 2008
Secondment to a major Japanese securities company 2009-2010
University of Warwick (LLM) 2012
King's College London (Postgraduate Diploma in EU Competition Law) 2013
Clifford Chance, Brussels 2012
Counsel since 2018
Partner since 2024
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He provides a great level of client service and knowledge of relevant regulations and market practice.
Masafumi Shikakura is very responsive and able to handle substantive international competition law issues in both English and Japanese, which is very helpful.
He provides a great level of client service and knowledge of relevant regulations and market practice.
Masafumi Shikakura is very responsive and able to handle substantive international competition law issues in both English and Japanese, which is very helpful.