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SoftBank Partnership Brings Rare Victory for Refugee in Japan

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Morrison Foerster lawyers successfully helped a pro bono client secure refugee status in Japan. 

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Morrison Foerster lawyers successfully helped a pro bono client secure refugee status in Japan. This outcome was the result of a partnership with SoftBank, which suggested in 2021 that the firm join its in-house lawyers in representing a client of the Japan Association for Refugees (JAR), a non‑governmental organization that MoFo’s Tokyo office has worked with for more than 15 years. Read the <a href="https://together.mofo.com/topics/softbank-partnership-brings-rare-victory-for-refugee-in-japan" target="_blank">full blog post</a>.

SoftBank Partnership Brings Rare Victory for Refugee in Japan

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Takahiro Nonaka is a partner of Morrison Foerster Law Offices. He focuses his practice on government and internal investigations, including anti-corruption, antitrust, employee misconduct, and data privacy issues. He also works on both cross-border dispute resolution and domestic general commercial litigation.He has represented multinational companies in their negotiations with government officials, mass media, and other associated investigative agencies. His work also includes conducting internal investigations and training, researching relevant regulations and guidelines, and drafting internal codes and policies.He has worked with many multinational companies on U.S. antitrust law and Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) matters, data privacy issues in the EU and other jurisdictions, and cross-border disputes, particularly related to tort claims and product liability in Japan and the United States, collaborating with counsel in each jurisdiction. His practice also focuses on domestic general commercial litigation, including system development contracts, real estate lease agreements, and various types of labor disputes. In addition, he regularly advises clients on employment, trade and export control compliance issues, and business criminal defense matters.Taka began his career as a judge, serving in district courts in Japan for almost 10 years. He was seconded to a multinational auto company, where he handled labor matters and trained factory workers. He also held a two-year diplomatic secondment role at the Japan Embassy in Washington, D.C., where he served as an advisor on issues relating to export controls, competition laws, and FCPA enforcement affecting Japanese companies.Taka was recommended by Who’s Who Legal Japan for Business Crime Defense & Investigations, by Best Lawyers in Japan for Privacy and Data Security Law since 2021, and by The Legal 500 Asia Pacific for Japan: Antitrust and Competition in 2023.He has often been invited to speak at seminars held by outside organizations and internally with MoFo partners from other offices. Recently, he participated in a presentation on topics relating to anti-corruption and overseas bribery at a seminar sponsored by the Global Compact Network Japan Anti-Corruption Subcommittee in November 2022. He also provided presentations on information security issues at the Association of Niigata Information Security and at an Asian Investigation Seminar held with KL Discovery.Taka has been an adjunct professor of International Dispute Resolution at the Graduate School of Law at the Hitotsubashi University since September 2018. He is a bengoshi registered with the Dai-Ni Tokyo Bar Association. He is a native speaker of Japanese and is fluent in English.

Takahiro Nonaka

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Kana Kobayashi is an associate of Morrison Foerster Law Offices.Kana received her LL.B from Keio University in 2015 and completed her training at the Legal Training and Research Institute of the Supreme Court of Japan in December 2016 (69th trainee).﻿Kana is a bengoshi admitted to practice in Japan and New York and a member of the Daini Tokyo Bar Association.

Kana Kobayashi

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Masumi Oyabu is an associate of Morrison Foerster Law Offices.Masumi received her LL.B. from Waseda University Faculty of Law in 2015, her J.D. from Keio University Law School in 2017, and completed her training at the Legal Training and Research Institute of the Supreme Court of Japan in December 2018 (71st trainee). Masumi is a bengoshi admitted to practice in Japan and a member of the Dai-Ichi Tokyo Bar Association.

Masumi Oyabu

Rei Suzuki is an associate of Morrison Foerster Law Offices.Rei received her LL.B. from Keio University in 2011, and her J.D. from Keio University Law School in 2014. She completed her training at the Legal Training and Research Institute of Japan in December 2017 (70th trainee). Rei is a bengoshi admitted to practice in Japan (member of the Daini Tokyo Bar Association) and a qualified lawyer in California.

Rei Suzuki