PARTNER
Daisuke WAKAMATSU
- TEL : +1-310-919-3268
- E-mail : dwakamatsu@nozomisogo.gr.jp
Daisuke "Danny" Wakamatsu is the head of Nozomi’s Los Angeles office. He has extensive experience in cross-border transactions including M&A, joint ventures and commercial agreements representing corporations in various industries. Further, he provides a wide range of legal advice to Japan-based businesses located in the U.S. including general corporate matters, labor and employment, business license/permits and privacy and data protection. Before joining Nozomi, he worked at international law firms and also worked as in-house counsel in Japan and the U.S.
Practice Areas
- Mergers and Acquisitions: mergers, asset and stock acquisitions and joint ventures in countries such as the U.S., Japan, Canada, Brazil, South Africa, India, the U.K., Germany, and Poland.
- Business Transactions: commercial contracts such as distribution agreements, service agreements, license agreements and OEM agreements.
- General Corporate Matters: internal policies for US corporations, including data retention policies and privacy policies.
- Labor and Employment: employment contracts, employee-related policies and advice on other labor-related matters.
- Legal Compliance: US data privacy law, antitrust law, FCPA.
- Dispute Resolution: US litigations involving discovery process.
Experience
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Nozomi Sogo, March 2018 to present
Partner, Head of Nozomi Los Angeles Law Office -
Soliton Systems, Inc. (San Jose, CA), March 2015 to present
General Counsel -
Baker & Mackenzie (Tokyo), January 2012 to February 2015
Associate -
Mitsui & Co., Ltd. (Tokyo), July 2009 to June 2010
Seconded Attorney -
Linklaters (Tokyo), September 2007 to December 2011
Associate
Education
- University of California, Los Angeles, School of Law, LL,M., 2014
- Legal Training and Research Institute of the Supreme Court of Japan, 2007
- Hitotsubashi University, Bachelor of Economics, 2006
Languages
- Japanese
- English