Yusuke Takeuchi

Senior Associate, LPC Tokyo International Law Office

Yusuke Takeuchi focuses his practice on M&A, corporate matters, projects, and dispute resolution.

He advises Japanese and international clients on a broad range of public and private M&A transactions, joint ventures, strategic investments, and general corporate matters. His experience includes advising on tender offers (TOBs), special committee processes, and other complex transactions involving listed companies.

His dispute resolution practice covers a wide range of commercial disputes, including shareholder and securities litigation, directors' liability claims, joint venture disputes, and construction-related disputes. He regularly advises on disputes involving cross-border elements and international clients, providing strategic advice from the pre-dispute stage through court proceedings.

Yusuke has particular experience in the energy and infrastructure sector, where he advises on project development, project finance, EPC contracts, power purchase agreements (PPAs), and renewable energy projects. His practice combines transactional, project, and dispute resolution experience, enabling him to assist clients throughout the lifecycle of complex investments and business ventures.

He regularly advises Japanese and international clients on cross-border transactions and other matters involving multiple jurisdictions, and is committed to delivering practical, commercially focused advice tailored to clients' business objectives.

Contributed to

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Challenging jurisdiction and anti-suit provisions in Japan

Practice Notes

Arbitration seated in Japan is governed by the Arbitration Act (Act No. 138 of 2003) (the ‘Arbitration Act’), which is based on the UNCITRAL Model Law on International Commercial Arbitration (1985). The Act was amended by Act No. 15 of 2023, in force on 1 April 2024, to reflect the 2006 revisions to the Model Law, in particular as regards interim measures and their enforcement, the writing requirement for arbitration agreements, the concentration of arbitration-related court business in designated courts, and the courts’ discretion to dispense with Japanese translations of certain documents.Japan, like other Model Law jurisdictions, fully embraces the principle of Kompetenz-Kompetenz: an arbitral tribunal may rule on its own jurisdiction, including on the existence or validity of the arbitration agreement (Article 23(1) of the Arbitration Act). There is no rule that the courts enjoy priority over the tribunal in deciding jurisdictional questions, and no system of internal ‘prior reporting’ within the court hierarchy before

Arbitration

Practice Area

Arbitration

Panel

Contributing Author

Qualified Year

2020

Experience

Tokyo International Law Office (2020 - Present)

Membership

Committee Member, Subcommittee on Contract & Legal, The Engineering Advancement Association of Japan (ENAA)
Director of the Society of Construction Law of Japan