Akira Komatsu

Partner

Tokyo Office

Languages
Japanese, English
Qualifications
2010, Japan (Dai-Ichi Tokyo Bar Association)

Akira Komatsu is a partner at Nagashima Ohno & Tsunematsu. His practice focuses on technology, media, and telecommunications (TMT), with a particular focus on emerging business areas involving artificial intelligence (AI), web3, extended reality (XR), the metaverse, and smart city initiatives. He also has extensive experience advising clients in start-up related matters, sports and entertainment, real estate, dispute resolution including international arbitration, and other general corporate matters. He also leverages his experience from secondments to Mitsui Fudosan Co., Ltd. (2019–2021) and Preferred Networks, Inc. (2022) in advising on business collaborations and investments between operating companies and startups.

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2006
Kyushu University (LL.B.)
2009
Kyushu University Law School (J.D.)
2010 -
Nagashima Ohno & Tsunematsu
2018
University of Washington School of Law (LL.M.)
2018 - 2019
Visiting Scholar, University of California, Berkeley, School of Law
2019 - 2021
Mitsui Fudosan Co., Ltd.
2022
Preferred Networks, Inc.
2026 - present
Partner, Nagashima Ohno & Tsunematsu

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