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Partner
Eriko Watanabe
Admitted to bar |
1988, Japan |
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Languages |
Japanese and English |
Practice Areas |
Antitrust/Competition Law Advice, Antitrust Litigation/Investigation, Merger Control, Unreasonable Premiums and Misleading Representation Prevention Act and Subcontract Act, Risk and Crisis Management/Compliance, General Corporate |
Biography
Eriko Watanabe is an antitrust partner at Nagashima Ohno & Tsunematsu. Ms. Watanabe worked at Kirkland & Ellis in Chicago (1994-1995) as a visiting attorney, and served as a deputy director of the Fair Trade Commission of Japan (1995-1998). In addition to her work with the firm, Ms. Watanabe has taught, as the Professor at Keio University Law School, antitrust and corporate law (2004-2007), and has been a member of various governmental commissions such as the Supervisory Commission for Public-Private and Private-Private Competitive Tenderings appointed by the Prime Minister of Japan from April 2007 to July 2012. She also assumed the position of a member of the Board of Governors and a member of the Audit & Supervisory Committee of Nippon Hoso Kyokai (NHK), Japan Broadcasting Corporation, with the approval of both Houses of National Diet and appointed by the Prime Minister.
Ms. Watanabe has written on numerous legal topics regarding the Antimonopoly Law of Japan in both English and Japanese, including "Merger Control Worldwide" (the Japan part) and "Anti-Cartel Enforcement Worldwide" (the Japan part) for Cambridge University Press and has authored many publications in Japanese, including several chapters in the book entitled "Regulation on Setting Technology Standards Under the Antimonopoly Law of Japan," "Doing Business in Japan - Competition Law," "Practice regarding the Antimonopoly Law of Japan" (2006) and various papers such as "New Merger Guidelines and Review of Merger Cases by the JFTC" for Fair Trade (2003 and 2004). In addition, she also authored major chapters of two of the most recent and highly acclaimed commentaries on Antimonopoly Law (in Japanese), specifically Unreasonable Restraint of Trade (e.g. cartels) and Resale Price Maintenance, etc., both in 2014. She has been a panelist in a number of international antitrust/competition law presentations such as at the ABA Cartel Workshop.
Ms. Watanabe earned her LL.B. in 1983 at Tohoku University in Japan and her LL.M. in 1994 at the University of Washington, School of Law in Seattle.
Education/Professional Experience
1983 | Tohoku University (LL.B.) |
1988 | Nagashima & Ohno (currently Nagashima Ohno & Tsunematsu) |
1994 | University of Washington School of Law (LL.M.) |
1994-1995 | Kirkland & Ellis LLP, Chicago |
1995-1998 | Japan Fair Trade Commission |
1998- | Nagashima & Ohno (currently Nagashima Ohno & Tsunematsu) |
2000-present | Partner, Nagashima Ohno & Tsunematsu |
2004-2007 | Professor (Antitrust and Corporate Law), Keio University Law School |
2007 | Lecturer (Antitrust Law), Keio University Law School |
2005-2007, 2009 | Member of the New Growth Policy Committee for the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry |
2007-2012 | Member of Supervisory Commission for Public-Private and Private-Private Competitive Tenderings |
March 2012-February 2015 | Governor and Auditor, NHK (Japan Public Broadcasting Corporation) |
2019-present | Bar Examiner of the National Bar Examination Commission (Economic Law) |
September 2020-present | Auditor, Ochanomizu University |
Seminars
January 23, 2019 | NO&T Seminars | |
September 6, 2018 | Seminars | Competition Law - Leniency And Enforcement - Regional Updates |
February 3, 2016 | Seminars | International Cartel Workshop, ABA Section of Antitrust Law and IBA (Tokyo) |
December 10, 2015 | NO&T Seminars | |
July 14, 2015 | Seminars | |
October 13, 2011 | Seminars | Multi-Jurisdictional Cartel Investigations |
November 14, 2008 | Seminars | The Rise of Antitrust in the Far East - a Challenging Landscape |
April 17, 2008 | Seminars | Anti-Cartel Enforcement in Japan and Proposed Amendment to the Antimonopoly Law in 2008 |
April 16, 2008 | Seminars | Regulation and enforcement of the Antimonooply Law on cartels - A Japanese Perspective |
January 30, 2008 | Seminars | International Cartel Workshop, ABA Section of Antitrust Law and IBA (San Francisco) |
July 6, 2006 | Seminars | |
February 10, 2006 | Seminars | International Cartel Workshop, ABA Section of Antitrust Law and IBA (London) |
February 5, 2004 | Seminars | International Cartel Workshop, ABA Section of Antitrust Law and IBA (New York) |
July 6, 2001 | Seminars | Regulation on Setting Technology Standards under the Antimonopoly Law of Japan |
Publications
Topics
December 15, 2020 | Awards | |
November 4, 2020 | Awards | High evaluation received in Who's Who Legal: Global Guide 2020 |
September 28, 2020 | Awards | |
September 17, 2020 | Awards | NO&T receives high evaluation in Asialaw Profiles 2021 and Asialaw Leading Lawyers 2021 |
December 27, 2019 | Awards | High evaluation received in Who's Who Legal: Global Guide 2019 |
December 5, 2019 | Awards | |
September 27, 2019 | Awards | |
September 17, 2019 | Awards | NO&T receives high evaluation in Asialaw Profiles 2020 and Asialaw Leading Lawyers 2020 |
April 4, 2019 | Awards | High evaluation received in the 2020 Edition of "The Best Lawyers in Japan" |
November 30, 2018 | Awards |
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