- External Seminars
Joint Seminar & Launch: Center for Japanese Law
- Date
- Wednesday, February 25, 2026, 1PM - 5PM
- Venue
- Bangkok Room 402 (Surakiart Sathirathai Conference Room, Chulalongkorn University)
Join us for a special seminar and networking event celebrating the launch of the Center for Japanese Law at Law Chula — a hub for research, education, and collaboration on Japanese legal studies in Thailand.
Keynote speakers:
Dr. Wirote Watinpongpun, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Law, Chulalongkorn University
Tokuhiro Matsunaga, Bangkok Office Co-representative and Partner, SCL Nishimura & Asahi Limited
Networking: Connect with students, academics, and legal professionals after the seminar
Agenda:
- 1:00 pm Registration
- 1:30 pm Opening Remarks and Presentation of the Center
- 1:45 pm Remarks by Assistant Professor, Dr. Wirote Watinpongpun (Director of the Center)
- 2:00 pm Keynote Lecture: Dr. Wirote Watinpongpun | Introduction to the Thai Trade Competition Act
- 3:00 pm Coffee Break
- 3:15 pm Panel Discussion: Tokuhiro Matsunaga | Thai Competition Law in Practice from an International Lawyer’s Perspective
- 4:15 pm Networking and Informal Discussion


Tokuhiro Matsunaga has handled a wide variety of cross-border M&A transactions in Asia and other regions. Recently, he has been focusing on the expansion of N&A’s Thai legal practice, and provides hands-on support to both Japanese and international clients that invest or are located in Thailand. He advises clients from both corporate/M&A and competition law perspectives, and has prevailed in a broad range of complicated cases, such as M&A transactions that involve serious antitrust issues. In addition, he has extensive experience with competition law investigations by the Japanese Fair Trade Commission, as well as investigations by other competition authorities in more than 15 countries. He also advises on other legal practice areas, including corporate governance, shareholders’ meetings, countermeasures against hostile takeovers and shareholder activism, compliance enhancement, internal investigations, and whistleblowing cases. He is adept at precisely understanding clients’ needs, and works carefully and efficiently to achieve the optimal outcomes for his clients.