Ayumi Fukuhara

Utilizing her experience in the Ministry of Justice and the Prosecutors’ Office, Ms. Fukuhara’s main practice area is corporate crisis management and global investigations. She specializes in representing companies and individuals in complex cross-border investigations involving domestic and foreign regulatory authorities. Further, she has advised many companies about business and human rights (BHR) as well as supporting establishing an effective compliance system regarding personal information and trade secrets, anti-corruption, and other matters.
She is a committee member of Anti-Bribery Committee Japan (ABCJ).
She has been selected as one of the 40 outstanding legal professionals under the age of 40 in the ALB Asia 40 under 40 2023. She has also been ranked Number 2 by Nikkei’s Best Performing Lawyers Survey in Business and Human Rights in 2023, by both client and peer vote, and ranked 5th in client vote and 10th overall in the Compliance category in the 2025 edition of the same survey.