Masafumi Shikakura

Practice Areas

Masafumi Shikakura is a counsel and leads Clifford Chance’s antitrust practice in Tokyo. He specialises in antitrust law and foreign investment regulations and advises domestic and international companies on Japanese anti-monopoly law as well as Japanese regulations on foreign direct investments and sanctions. He handles multi-jurisdictional merger filing analyses and foreign direct investment filing analyses and coordination with local counsel in various jurisdictions for many transactions.

Masafumi has also gained extensive experience in M&A transactions, in particular cross-border acquisitions and joint ventures. He has advised clients in power and energy, technology, healthcare and various industrial sectors.

Career

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