Attorney Profiles

Tetsuya Miyajima counsels clients in a wide variety of corporate matters with an emphasis on employment and crisis management. His experiences include:

Employment

• Advice on the development of work regulations in relation to employment issues arising from legal reform, business reorganizations, etc.
• Advice on disciplinary actions
• Advice on issues and disputes concerning employee compensation
• Assistance with collective bargaining negotiations
• Representation in employment disputes such as in mediation and labor tribunals
• Advice on harassment cases and assistance with developing preventive measures
• Handling of employment cases with respect to mental health issues

Crisis Management

• Advice on responses to and communication with related parties (e.g. government authorities, customers, mass media and shareholders) concerning product quality issues such as deviation from industry standards and/or certification standards
• Advice on commercial matters across the product supply chain, defense against customer claims, etc., concerning large-scale product defect cases

Restructuring, Bankruptcy and Insolvency

• Trustee representative in Tosco Co., Ltd (listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange and Osaka Stock Exchange)’s corporate reorganization, 2008
• Trustee representative in Crosswave Communications, Inc.’s corporate reorganization, 2003
• Trustee representative in Sato Kogyo Co., Ltd (listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange)’s corporate reorganization, 2002
  
  In addition, he has been involved in numerous bankruptcy cases as court-appointed trustee

Corporate

• Support during preparation of and at shareholder meetings
• Court-appointed inspector of shareholder meetings
• Assistance including preparation of documents for domestic M&A transactions
• Advice on various legal issues companies face in their daily businesses

Education

• The Legal Training and Research Institute of the Supreme Court of Japan, 1997
• Waseda University (LL.B in Law), 1994

Admissions and Certifications

• Admitted in Japan, 1997 (Dai-ichi Tokyo Bar Association)

Other Activities and Memberships

• Outside Director of Nippon Koshuha Steel Co., Ltd (2016-)

Publications

Co-authored

• The Modern Law of Contract Part I, Seirin Shoin, 2019
• “Preparing for the Amendment of the Civil Code – Ideas on the revision of model contracts based on the amended provisions –“Business Homu, Chuo-Keizaisha, September 2017
• Everything about Business Reorganization”, Bessatsu Shoji Homu, No.240, Shoji-homu kenkyu-kai, 2001
  
  All publications are in Japanese.