Fraud Investigation/Crisis Management

With his background as a public prosecutor, an investigator at the Securities and Exchange Surveillance Commission (SESC) and a fraud investigator/forensic accountant at a Big 4 accounting firm, Hidetaka specializes on investigation of white collar crimes and fraudulent activities such as accounting fraud, market manipulation, insider trading, embezzlement, bribery and cybercrime and handles government inquiries of criminal and administrative authorities.

Disclosure Regulations/ Accounting and Auditing

With his experience in enforcing disclosure regulations in accounting frauds as an SESC investigator and addressing fraud risk in financial statements audit procedures at a Big 4 accounting firm, Hidetaka advises on disclosure regulations and accounting and auditing issues.

Financial Regulations

With his experience of being seconded to a foreign asset management and to a domestic major bank, investigation experience of foreign institutional investors' market manipulation and other fraudulent trade and foreign financial institutions' excessive entertainment for public pension fund, Hidetaka generally advises on financial regulations.

Compliance

Hidetaka generally advises on enhancement of compliance program to address bribery risk, antitrust risk and other compliance risk in response to foreign and domestic enforcements and on issues related to Japanese companies' management of their foreign subsidiaries.