Squire Patton Boggs

Hidetoshi Asakura

Senior Counsel

Languages spoken
Japanese | English

About Hidetoshi

Hidetoshi Asakura works with Japan-based and US-based companies, focusing on the legal issues involved in US-Japanese commercial and financial transactions.

He advises clients with respect to general corporate law matters, joint ventures, technical licensing, securities law, antitrust law, mergers and acquisitions, real property transactions and international dispute resolution matters.

Hidetoshi has lectured on a variety of business topics including US mergers and acquisitions, real property transactions, US antidiscrimination laws and international dispute resolution matters.

As an adjunct law professor at the University of Tokyo Graduate School of Law and Politics between 2005 and 2010, he taught international contract law.

Hidetoshi is a member of the Daiichi Tokyo Bar Association. His status with the State Bar of California is inactive.

Credentials

Education
  • University of Washington, LL.M., 1979
  • The Legal Training & Research Inst. of Japan, Diploma of Completion, 1972
  • The University of Tokyo, B.A., 1967
Admissions
  • Japan, 1972

Expertise

Services
  • Antitrust & Competition

About our firm

One of the world’s strongest integrated law firms, providing insight at the point where law, business and government meet. We deliver commercially focused business solutions by combining our legal, lobbying and political capabilities and invaluable connections on the ground to a diverse mix of clients, from long-established leading corporations to emerging businesses, startup visionaries and sovereign nations. More than 1,500 lawyers in over 40 offices across four continents provide unrivaled access to expertise.