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Jun Suzuki

Jun Suzuki

Special Counsel
TEL:
81-3-6775-1873
FAX:
81-3-6775-2873

Throughout his career, Jun Suzuki has developed his extensive expertise in economic security field. After being called to the bar in Japan, he started his careers at law firms in Japan and the United States. Following the graduation of the LL.M. program in Washington DC, during which he focused on national security law, he gained further practical experience as a senior manager in a major Japanese electronics/entertainment company and its U.S. subsidiaries, particularly in the area of economic security. Since 2022, Jun Suzuki has been working on the development of domestic legal systems related to economic security (including the Economic Security Promotion Act, the Act on the Protection and Utilization of Critical Economic Security Information, Act on the Review and Regulation of the Use of Real Estate Surrounding Important Facilities and on Remote Territorial Islands as well as Foreign Exchange and Foreign Trade Act) or establishment of operational structure for such laws, etc., as Deputy Director of the Economic Security Policy Division of the Foreign Policy Bureau of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Additionally, Jun Suzuki has many experiences in dispute resolution (domestic/cross-border) and transactions involving intellectual properties, having begun his career in said law firms and Japanese company.

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Background

Mar 2004 Keio University (LL.B.)
Mar 2006 Ritsumeikan University School of Law (J.D.)
2007 - 2008 The Legal Training and Research Institute of the Supreme Court of Japan
Jan 2009 - Jul 2014 H. Okada International Law Offices
May 2015 The George Washington University Law School (LL.M.)
Aug 2015 - Jul 2016 Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP, New York Office
Sep 2016 - Apr 2022 Sony Group Corporation Legal Department (legal division and economic security division)
*May 2018-Dec 2018 Sony Corporation of America Legal Department
2021- Senior Manager of headquarters legal department
May 2018 - Dec 2018 Sony Corporation of America Legal Department
May 2022 - Jul 2024 Deputy Director (development of domestic law), Economic Security Policy Division, Foreign Policy Bureau, Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Publications

Professional Admissions

  • Japan (2009)
  • New York (2017)
  • Policy secretary, House of Representatives

Professional and Academic Associations

  • Dai-ichi Tokyo Bar Association

Languages

  • Japanese (first language)
  • English