Yukihiro SUGIURA

As a partner in our M&A/Corporate practice group, Yukihiro’s practice focuses mainly on corporate governance, including institutional design, the operation of boards of directors, statutory auditors, and audit committees, internal control systems, and subsidiary management. He regularly assists clients in a broad range of industries and sectors with designing equity compensation schemes (including employee stock ownership plans and trust structures), disclosures, issues involving the Corporate Governance Code, shareholders’ meetings (including responses to activist engagement and shareholder proposals), and insider trading regulations. In addition, he provides strategic advice on critical management decisions relating to M&A transactions and business reorganizations, such as preparing legal opinions on directors’ duties of care.
He has extensive experience handling labor issues, such as drafting employment rules and internal policies, advising on dismissals and harassment incidents, and other HR matters, as well as representing clients in disputes with employees and labor unions.