TOKYO CRIMINAL DEFENSE LAWYER TSUTOMU NAKAMURA COMPLIANCE WHITE COLLAR CRIMES DRUG CHARGES
Columbia University School of Law, New York, New York LL.M., received February 2006
Honors: Fulbright Scholarship from the Japan-United States Educational Commission
Chuo University, Faculty of Law, Tokyo, Japan LL.B., received March 1985
Nakamura International Criminal Defense (“NICD”), Tokyo, Japan
Founding Partner
Hibiki Law Office, Tokyo, Japan
Partner
Represented an orthodox yeshiva boy in an alleged major drug trafficking case.
Self-Employed, Hakodate, Japan
President of Nakamura Tsutomu Law Office
Represented Mr.Yuji Hosono, CPA as well as an author of current bestseller books, in a major accounting fraud case pending on the Supreme Court of Appeal.
Assisted clients in criminal litigations, including a well-known case, being sentenced “NOT-GUILTY” for an alleged embezzlement.
Advised clients on all aspects of corporate matters, including bid-rigging issues. Dispatched as a short-term expert by JICA to Cambodia for legal and judicial system development.
Asahi Koma Law Offices, Tokyo, Japan
Senior Associate Attorney
Assisted Mr. Nicholas John Baker in his alleged drug smuggling criminal case in the Tokyo High Court appeal:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_John_Baker
Asahi Koma Law Offices, Tokyo, Japan
Senior Associate Attorney
Assisted Mr. Nicholas John Baker in his alleged drug smuggling criminal case in the Tokyo High Court appeal:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_John_Baker
Assisted Japanese and foreign companies in all aspects of corporate criminal defense and risk management from internal investigations to managing criminal and civil litigations.
Advised clients on a range of corporate compliance, fiduciary duty, stockholder meetings, joint venture transactions, and other general corporate matters, including issues of the Sarbanes Oxley Act of 2002.
Engaged in due diligence in joint venture transactions.
Served as a member of the corporate internal investigation committee for a Japanese major credit company (Nihon Shinpan) in its corporate racketeering case in 2002.
Lectured on corporate compliance for executives of Japanese companies, sponsored by the Business Research Institute of Japan.
Short-term Overseas Fellowship Program, London, the United Kingdom Visiting Researcher
Researched on a criminal justice system in U.K. at the Lincoln’s Inn, the Library of the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies in London, University of Sussex and University of London, King’s College on behalf of the Japanese government.
Legal Training and Research Institute of the Supreme Court of Japan Legal Trainee
Researched legal issues and drafted memoranda for civil and criminal litigations. Assisted judges, prosecutors and lawyers in civil and criminal cases.
Japan, 1994
Federation of Bar Associations, Tokyo Bar Association, Japan
English and Japanese
