Partner Yoshihiko HAMANAKA
TEL：03-5366-5799FAX：03-3226-5711After working for 30 years in the finance industry at Fuji Bank (currently, Mizuho Bank), Yoshihiko Hamanaka passed the bar exam at the age of 54. Drawing upon his wealth of career experience, Yoshihiko offers legal support on corporate law with a focus on the Companies Act and labor laws.
CV
1940Born April 13th
1959Graduate Hiroshima University Fukuyama High School
1964Graduated University of Tokyo, Department of Law
1964Entered Fuji Bank (Lending and corporate bond consignment operations)
Nine years of experience in consulting, including international businesses
1994Retired from Fuji Bank
Transferred to Fuji Research Institute
1994Passed bar exam
1997Graduated Legal Research and Training Institute of Japan
1997Registered as attorney (Daini Tokyo Bar Association)
April 2002 – June 2005Adjunct Lecturer, Department of Law, Komazawa University
September 2005 – March 2011Adjunct Lecturer, Komazawa University Graduate School of Law
2023Joined Sugiyama & Partners LPC.
Bar Association
June 2005 – May 2007Chairman, Japan Federation of Bar Associations Committee on Debt Collection Companies
Judiciary
2003 – March 2010Tokyo District Court Civil Arbitration Committee Member
Published Works
Co-author, “Saikin no shuyōna hōkaisei to kaisha hōhanrei jitsumu no dōkō” [“Recent major trends in legal reform and corporate law case precedents and practices”], Daini Tōkyō Bengoshikai Kenkyū Bunka Iinkai [Daini Tokyo Bar Association Research Committee] (February 2000)
Co-author, “Heisei shōhō kaisei handobukku” [“Heisei Handbook to Commercial Law Reforms”], Sanseido (July 2000)
Co-author, “Oyako kaisha no setsuritsu unei kanri no hōmu” [“Legal Affairs on the Establishment, Operation and Management of Parent/Subsidiary Companies”], Daiichi Hoki Publishing (April 2002)
Co-author, Editor, Keiei Sōdan Zensho Q&A [Complete Management Consultation Q&A], Sanseido (May 2002)
Co-author, “Tōkyōto daisan sekutā san-sha no minji saisei mōshitate jiken ni tsuite” [“On the Civil Rehabilitation Petition of Three Companies in the Tokyo Metropolitan Semi-Public Sector”] Kinzai Zaisei Jijō Kenkyūkai (October 2007)
“Ginkō gyōmu ni okeru kigen no rieki sōshitsu to sōsai jitsumu” [“Timed Profit Loss and Offsetting Practices in Banks”], Kinyu Zaiseijijo (July 2008)
Editor, Daisen sekutā no saisei [Revitalizing the Semi-Public Sector] Kinzai (2010)
Ginkōin Sanjyūnen, Bengoshi Nijyūnen [Thirty Years a Banker, Twenty Years a Lawyer], Online blog, Shojihomu Portal (February 10, 2015 – September 15, 2015)
Ginkōin Sanjyūnen, Bengoshi Nijyūnen [Thirty Years a Banker, Twenty Years a Lawyer] Shojihomu (July 2016)