Kenichi Sadaka is a partner at Anderson Mori & Tomotsune, engaged mainly in international and domestic litigation, commercial arbitration and other alternative dispute resolution procedures.

Mr Sadaka has represented many Japanese and foreign companies in Japan in disputes among management and/or shareholders, disputes related to insurance, franchise, cross-border transactions (LC and BL-related matters), financial products, product liability, debt collections, termination of distributorship agreements, intellectual property issues (patents, copyrights, medical import licences, trademarks, trade secrets, and unfair competition, etc), real estate transactions, construction, labour (collective bargaining with labour unions, visa-related issues, sexual harassment, dismissals, labour accidents, etc), antimonopoly issues, inheritance, mortgage enforcement, defamation, professional malpractice, administrative remedies, and other matters.

Mr Sadaka also has experience in several overseas litigations, and has provided assistance in discovery procedures in Japan in relation to companies in Japan. In addition to these civil dispute activities, Mr Sadaka has conducted internal investigations for several companies in relation to intra-company crimes and, based upon such scrutiny, exposed criminal accusations for embezzlement, fraud, and similar white-collar crimes.

Mr Sadaka also provides day-to-day legal services for general corporate legal affairs, such as advice on cross-border transactions, doing businesses in Japan for foreign companies and doing businesses overseas (especially South East Asian countries) for Japanese companies.

WWL says: Kenichi Sadaka is a litigation specialist with a wealth of experience representing Japanese and international companies in complex disputes.