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Chieko Tsuchiya

Chieko Tsuchiya

Special Counsel
TEL:
81-3-6775-1081
FAX:
81-3-6775-2081

Chieko Tsuchiya provides advice to both Japanese and international companies on cross-border insolvency matters, dispute resolutions, commercial transactions and employment law issues. She has also engaged in nuclear law related matters using her professional experience at the International Atomic Energy Agency. She has extensively worked on variety of international complex insolvency and civil cases that require coordination of multi-stakeholders’ interests and court proceedings in multiple jurisdictions. Chieko is an adjunct judge/mediator at the Tokyo Family Court and has acted as a mediator in Tokyo Bar Association.

Tsuchiya Chieko

Practice Areas

Practice Groups

  • Financial Restructuring & Insolvency Group
  • Dispute Resolution Group
  • Energy Practice Group
  • Labor Law Group

Background

1993 Keio University, Bachelor of Laws
1993 - 1997 Citibank, N.A.
2000 - 2001 The Legal Training and Research Institute of the Supreme Court of Japan
2005 New York University School of Law, Master of Laws
2005 - 2006 Harvard Law School, Visiting Researcher
2012 - 2015 The International Atomic Energy Agency
2018 Panel of Specialist Mediator at Singapore International Mediation Centre (SIMC)
2018 Panel of Mediator at Kyoto International Mediation Center
Sep 2019 Kobe University Graduate School of Law (PhD in International Dispute Resolution)
2021 - 2023 Tilleke & Gibbins (Thailand)

Publications

Jun 2018
Oct 2016

Lectures

Professional Admissions

  • Japan (2001)
  • New York (2006)
  • Mediator, Tokyo Bar Association ADR Center (2010-)
  • Mediator (Adjunct judge), The Tokyo Family Court (2016-2020)
  • CEDR Accredited Mediator (2017)
  • Member, Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (CIArb) (2018)
  • Member of Council for Promotion of Japanese Law Translation, Ministry of Justice (2024-)

Professional and Academic Associations

  • Tokyo Bar Association

Languages

  • Japanese (first language)
  • English