Haruka Matsumoto

Partner, LPC Tokyo International Law Office

Haruka focuses on dispute resolution and internal investigation practice in addition to transactional matters in the energy sector at Tokyo International Law Office.

For dispute resolution, she represents and defends both Japanese and overseas companies in litigation, international arbitration and mediation in various sectors including, construction, energy, automotive related materials, insurance, medical devices, electric devices, software development and real estate.

Being a certified fraud examiner, Haruka has extensive experience in internal investigations of Japanese companies and overseas subsidiaries located in Asia, Europe and the U.S. She also acts as a committee member of external investigation committees of Japanese companies and is also a committee member of the tender monitor committee of Tokyo Metropolitan Government.

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Interim measures in support of arbitration in Japan

Practice Notes

Interim remedies in Japan—introductionInterim measures are intended to preserve a party’s rights and assets, to prevent harm or maintain the status quo, and to regulate conduct pending a decision on the merits. In international arbitration they are frequently decisive of the practical effectiveness of the process.The Japanese position is one of recent and deliberate modernisation. Arbitration seated in Japan is governed by the Arbitration Act (Act No. 138 of 2003) (the ‘Arbitration Act’), originally based on the UNCITRAL Model Law (1985). Until 1 April 2024, the Act contained only an abstract provision on interim measures and, critically, no mechanism for their enforcement, so that an interim measure depended on the parties’ voluntary compliance and was, in practice, little used.The Act was amended by Act No. 15 of 2023, in force on 1 April 2024, to align Japan with the 2006 revisions to the Model Law. The amended Act

Arbitration

Practice Area

Arbitration

Panel

Contributing Author

Qualified Year

2005

Experience

Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP., Orrick Tokyo Law Office Gaikokuho Kyodo Enterprise (2015 - 2023)
Nagasawa Sogo Law Office (2009 - 2015)
Shibuya Civic Law Office (2006 - 2009)

Membership

Member, Tokyo Metropolitan Government Bid Monitoring Committee
Panelist, JP Domain Name Dispute Resolution, Japan Intellectual Property Arbitration Center
Member, Committee on International Arbitration, Daiichi Tokyo Bar Association
Member, Specialist Mediator Panel, Singapore International Mediation Centre