- Awards
IADC Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging (DEIB) Award
We were honored to be awarded the Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging (DEIB) Award presented by the International Association of Defense Counsel (IADC). Partner Hiroyuki Tezuka attended the award ceremony held in Canada on July 6, 2025.
IADC is an international invitation-only legal association that has been active since 1920.
The DEIB Award recognizes the championing of diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging within the legal profession, and purposeful, tangible action that have yielded positive outcome in the legal profession and/or in significantly advancing understanding of the need for diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging in the legal profession.
We were selected for this award in recognition of our sustained and strategic efforts to advance DEIB within the legal profession.
As stated in our Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Statement, we will continue our efforts to help build a society where diverse individuals respect one another and can thrive together.
People
Yuri is specialized in Restructuring and Insolvency and also Labor Law. Especially, she is well-known in the restructuring market given her outstanding expertise and experience in cross-border restructuring and insolvency cases. She has plenty of experience providing foreign clients with restructuring and business closure of their Japanese subsidiaries. She also supports foreign clients on a wide range of labor issues, including labor disputes, personnel restructuring and general labor law matters on a daily basis. She is actively engaged in diversity and inclusion promotion activities. Utilizing her expertise as a labor-law specialist, as well as her experience as a member of the DE&I Promotion Committee at Nishimura & Asahi and as a director of LLAN (lawyers for LGBT & Allies Network), she has supported clients’ D&I initiatives.
Hiroyuki heads our international dispute resolution practice. He specializes in international commercial litigation, arbitration, and mediation, and has represented many international clients, including multinational manufacturers, banking and securities firms, insurance companies, and information media companies, in disputes involving M&A, antitrust laws, corporate governance, insurance laws, intellectual property, defamation, joint ventures, licensing, construction, and other commercial matters, as well as international bankruptcy proceedings. He has been involved in a number of international arbitrations as counsel, sole arbitrator, and co-arbitrator (including chair) before the ICC, JCAA, AAA-ICDR, VIAC, KCAB, and SIAC.
Hiroyuki serves as Vice President of the Japan Association of Arbitrators and as Chief Director of the Japan International Mediation Center in Kyoto; formerly, he served as the Vice Chair of the Arbitration Committee of the IBA Legal Practice Division, and as Co-Chair of the Dispute Resolution and Arbitration Committee at the IPBA (2016-2020). From 2013 to 2016, he taught international arbitration and international dispute resolution at the University of Tokyo, School of Law as a visiting professor. He also served as a member of the International Court of Arbitration of the ICC (second term, through June 2024), a Council Member of the ICC Institute of World Business Law (ongoing, since 2018), and a member of the Court of Arbitration of the SIAC (2013-2024).