| Chris Bailey, Partner,King & Spalding Tokyo
Chris Bailey is a partner in King & Spalding’s Global Disputes and Government Investigation Practices. He is highly experienced in litigation, arbitration and all forms of alternative dispute resolution. As a Tokyo-based, outbound dispute specialist, Chris has been involved in international/cross-border disputes and regulatory matters across a wide range of industries, with the core of his practice concerning the energy and natural resources sectors. In particular, Chris has been involved in full-scale corruption investigations involving the US DOJ, the UK SFO and the Nigerian EFCC and arising out of transactions in Africa, the Middle East and South America. He has also been engaged in the recent wave of global financial institution investigations, including in the FX space.
He has advised on other regulatory matters, including export control and sanctions (Iran, Iraq, Myanmar and Syria), reporting obligations (Hong Kong, Japan and Singapore) and criminal matters (securing the release of employees imprisoned in Indonesia and managing the treatment of criminal proceedings before the Attorney General of Thailand); conducted pre-investment due diligence; prepared investment risk assessment reports; and designed and implemented compliance programmes.
Chris is resident in the firm’s Tokyo office and has practiced for most of the last 10 years in Tokyo, including a two-year secondment with one of Japan's leading trading houses. Over the course of his decade in Asia, Chris has lectured and written on anti-corruption issues across the Asia-Pacific region. |
| Scott A. Warren, General Manager, Head of Japan, Epiq Systems
Scott Warren is a licensed US attorney who began his legal career litigating and arbitrating civil cases in California before moving to Japan in 1993. He spent 13 years as in-house counsel as the first foreign general counsel for Sega Enterprises, and then as senior corporate attorney for Microsoft. In those capacities, he handled a breadth of matters including overseeing several competition matters, litigation disputes, IP licensing, transaction agreements, anti-counterfeiting and anti-cybercrime efforts, employment matters and internal investigations. He was the Asia Regional Managing Director for Legal Technologies for a large risk consultancy and now oversees Epiq Systems, a world leader in legal technologies, providing eDiscovery and document review services in North Asia, working with corporations, and the law firms that support them, on issues where the Law and Technology collide. Many of those have involved anti-corruption investigation in various industries and countries in Asia. As such, he has been working in and around digital evidence in Asia for the last 20 years. |
| Satoshi Sato, Director, General Counsel, Legal and Compliance Department, Sony Mobile Communications Inc.
Satoshi Sato joined Sony Ericsson (now Sony Mobile Communications) in 2007 as legal manager in Japan, and have been engaged in broad area including legal, compliance, IPR, information security and governance. He has been engaged in legal working for 20 years, and has spent 15 years in mobile industry in distributor, operator and manufacturer. Prior to joining current company, he has worked for Vodafone. He is currently supporting legal, governance, compliance issues, and frequently involved in the non-Japanese issues. |
 | Ben Fouracre, Senior Director, FTI Consulting
Ben Fouracre is a Senior Director of the Global Risk and Investigations practice of FTI Consulting and has been based in Japan for over 8 years.Ben specializes in conducting complex investigate assignments involving fraud and corruption issues, business intelligence and due diligence investigations, brand integrity and risk consulting services and design and implementation of global compliance programs.
With a focus on South-East Asia, Ben has been responsible for assessing market entry strategy and risk for global organizations across a range of industry sectors and conducting risk assessments, due diligence and compliance reviews and leading large-scale projects in diverse sectors from defense to healthcare. Notable assignments include intelligence based strategic assistance to a Japanese megabank on their overseas expansion into emerging markets and operational support to a Japanese multinational in relation to government tender bids in Myanmar, Indonesia and Vietnam.Ben has been responsible for the creation and development of global programs aimed at organizational alignment and the implementation and execution of process and behaviors tied to delivery of strategic objectives. His clients have included both government organizations and major name multinationals ranging multiple industry sectors. |
| Tim Hewitt, Senior International Legal Counsel, Colt Technology Services Co., Ltd
Fluent in Japanese and having spent many years living and practicing as an attorney in Asia-Pacific, Tim is a recognized lawyer for nuanced and strategic legal advice, particularly for telecommunications/IT transactions in Asia. As Senior International Legal Counsel for Colt Technology Services Co., Ltd, Tim assists Colt Technology Services Co., Ltd overcome legal and regulatory hurdles to implement sophisticated global IT/network solutions for its customers and expand its industry-leading information delivery platform throughout and beyond Asia. |
| Robin O'Connor, Attorney, Admitted in New York, Legal Department, Kao Corporation
Robin O’Connor graduated with a J.D. from Tulane University Law School in 2004 and has been licensed to practice law in New York State since 2005. Robin has worked as an in-house attorney in the Legal & Compliance Division of Kao Corporation since 2006. From July 2009 to January 2012 Robin worked as an expatriate attorney at Kao USA Inc. (formerly Kao Brands Company) in Cincinnati, OH. At Kao Corporation he handles international legal and compliance matters and was instrumental in establishing the company’s Anti-bribery Guidelines and revamping its Conflict of Interest Guidelines. |
| Daiske Yoshida, Partner, Latham & Watkins
Daiske Yoshida is a partner in the Tokyo office of Latham & Watkins. He has extensive experience in cross-border litigation, arbitration and investigations in a wide range of subject areas, including antitrust, anticorruption, intellectual property, securities, accountant liability, and general commercial disputes. Mr. Yoshida represents clients in US federal and state courts as well as international arbitrations, and leads large-scale internal investigations in Japan, US and Europe involving antitrust, anti-corruption and securities law issues. His experience includes cases both at the trial and appellate levels, including appeals before the US Supreme Court and the Second, Ninth and Federal Circuit Court of Appeals. Mr. Yoshida also has extensive experience in pre-litigation analysis of potential intellectual property and antitrust claims (both defensive and offensive), and advises clients in transactions involving intellectual property rights, antitrust issues, and arbitration agreements. Mr. Yoshida is qualified to practise before the New York bar and in Japan as Gaikokuho-Jimu-Bengoshi (registered foreign lawyer, New York law). He is fluent in Japanese and English. |
| Catherine O’ Connell, Director, Legal, Regional Counsel, Asia Pacific North, Molex Japan LLC
Catherine joined Molex in 2012, and her role is Division Counsel for the Micro Products Division (MPD) and Regional Counsel for Asia Pacific North. Catherine is responsible for all aspects of legal/company/corporate affairs in Molex Japan and in the MPD entities operating in the APN region (China, Korea, Malaysia and Vietnam). Catherine’s primary focus is on protection of the company’s legal rights in Japan and Asia, ensuring the company’s activities are in compliance with the law and regulatory requirements in the region and heading up internal compliance investigations. Catherine has spent over 12 years in Japan working as Senior Associate at Hogan Lovells International Law Firm in Tokyo and London, and as Legal Counsel and Senior Legal Counsel at global companies Panasonic Corporation, Mitsubishi Motors and Olympus Corporation. Prior to Japan, Catherine worked in private practice in New Zealand for seven years. Catherine holds a Bachelor of Laws and a Bachelor of Japanese from Canterbury University and is admitted as a Barrister & Solicitor of the Supreme Court of England &Wales and admitted as a Solicitor of the High Court of New Zealand. Catherine is also fluent in the Japanese language. |
| | Kimio Kanai, Head of Legal Department, Compliance Group, Mizuho Securities Co., Ltd.
Kimio Kanai is the Head of Legal Department of Mizuho Securities Co., Ltd. (since March 2009) as well as the deputy head of the Compliance Group (in dual capacity since April 2010) responsible mainly for global compliance including anti-bribery compliance. In those capacities, he is supervising not only the legal and compliance matters of Mizuho Securities Co., Ltd. but also its overseas subsidiaries. Mr. Kanai originally joined The Industrial Bank of Japan, Ltd. in 1984, and has been working for Mizuho Financial Group for over 30 years. Based on his work experience for both banking and securities businesses, he has extensive experience and expertise in legal and compliance as well as in many business areas such as M&A advisory, work-out/restructuring advisory, project finance, lease finance, real estate finance, securitizations. |
| Takamiki Nishikawa, Representative Director, Vice President and Senior Counsel, FOX International Channels (Japan)
Takamiki is responsible for legal affairs in Japan, Korea and India. As a Member of the 21st Century Fox Group of companies, Fox International Channels has stringent internal compliance policies, which are diligently implemented and observed. Takamiki has been in government employ at the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry as well as previous in-house experience at an American luxury brand.He was educated at Eton College and Tokyo University (Law). |
| Kaori Miyake, General Counsel, Schneider Electric
Kaori Miyake is General Counsel Japan for Schneider Electric since 2011. Prior to Schneider, she was Senior Legal Counsel for GE Healthcare overseeing its Medical Device, Life Sciences and Pharmaceutical Divisions from 2008 to 2011. She was Senior International Counsel for Federal Express Corporation from 1999 to 2008 overseeing Japan, Korea, Hong Kong, Guam and Saipan. Kaori articled and is licensed in Ontario, Canada and practiced at Cassels Brock & Blackwell in Toronto from 1997 to 1999. She holds JD from Queen's University, Dipl SLS from University of Ottawa and BA Law from Carleton University and Rikkyo University. |
| Claire Chino Mitsuru, General Manager, Legal Division, Itochu Corporation
Claire received her B.A. (cum laude) from Smith College and her J.D. from Cornell Law School. She was a partner of an international law firm before she joined Itochu Corporation as its corporate counsel. In April 2013, she became the first female executive officer of any major trading company. She has received several recognitions such as a “Young Global Leader” (World Economic Forum), Yale World Fellow (Yale University), Asia 21 Fellow (Asia Society), U.S. Japan Leadership Fellow (U.S.-Japan Foundation), “Top 25 In-House Counsel in Asia” (Asia Legal Business), “Asia Pacific’s Innovative Lawyer” (Financial Times). She is a member of Cornell Law School’s advisory board. She is a classically trained singer and strives to be a “singing lawyer.” In December of 2014, Claire will be giving a recital at the Suntory Hall Blue Rose. |
