Fumihiko Hori is of counsel to Morrison Foerster Law Offices. Fumihiko’s practice covers a wide range of Japanese regulatory and policy matters, including energy and Japanese government initiatives on Green Transformation (GX), as well as export controls and sanctions, foreign investment regulations, the national security control regime of Japan, and regulations and policies on information and communications including cutting-edge technologies, among others. Fumihiko regularly advises multinational companies on all aspects of the continuously changing Japan regulatory regime of the energy market, national security, and various relevant regulations.
With over 10 years of experience advising multinational clients on energy matters since the outset of the Japanese government’s drastic deregulation of the energy market, Fumihiko regularly counsels on regulatory matters in the renewable energy industry, including net-zero energy procurement schemes and other energy-related transactions, and newly introduced energy trade solutions, such as Corporate Power Purchase Agreements, which have recently been widely accepted in Japan, and battery energy storage systems.