Akira Komatsu is a counsel at Nagashima Ohno & Tsunematsu. His practice focuses on technology, media, and telecommunications (TMT), particularly emerging business fields such as AI, web3, the metaverse, and smart city initiatives. He also has extensive experience advising clients in start-ups, sports and entertainment, real estate, and dispute resolution matters, including international arbitration. He also leverages his experience from secondments to Mitsui Fudosan Co., Ltd. (2019–2021) and Preferred Networks, Inc. (2022).