Koki Yanagisawa is a partner in the firm's Litigation Group whose practice focuses on resolution of disputes in the areas of commercial law, antitrust law and employment law. He has represented a variety of Japanese and foreign companies in a wide breadth of industries in litigation, arbitration and other dispute resolution procedures. His experience includes representations of clients in the administrative hearing procedure before the Japan Fair Trade Commission. He also regularly and extensively advises clients in connection with employment matters.

Mr. Yanagisawa joined Nagashima Ohno & Tsunematsu in 2001. He earned his LL.B. in 2000 from the University of Tokyo, and his LL.M. in 2007 from Columbia Law School, where he was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar. He engaged in practice of international arbitration at Debevoise & Plimpton LLP in New York City from 2007 to 2008. He has taught civil law at Sophia Law School in Tokyo as an adjunct lecturer since 2009. He was named as one of the top 40 antitrust lawyers under 40 by Global Competition Review in 2012.