In recent years, international arbitration involving Japanese parties has been on the rise due to the globalization of the economy and the increasing number of Japanese corporations expanding their business in emerging markets. Anderson Mori & Tomotsune ("AMT") has extensive experience in international arbitration having represented clients in arbitrations concerning capital and business alliances, joint ventures, M&A, construction projects, infrastructure projects and intellectual property transactions such as licenses, distributorship/agency agreements and sales under the rules of major arbitral institutions such as the ICC, the JCAA, the AAA/ICDR, the LCIA, the SIAC, the HKIAC and the CIETAC. Over the years, AMT also has acted an arbitrator and an expert witness in numerous international arbitrations.

AMT also provides strategic advice for Japanese corporations on investment treaty arbitrations in accordance with Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) clauses stipulated in investment treaties or investment chapters of economic partnership agreements (EPA).