Daichi Kiriyama
Biography
Daichi Kiriyama is a member of both the Corporate/M&A and Labor/Employment groups at Baker McKenzie's Tokyo office. He has also had the opportunity to burnish his legal skills with real-world experience in the pharmaceutical industry during a secondment with a major international pharmaceutical company.
Practice Focus
Daichi provides strategic legal counseling on domestic and international labor/employment matters, with a particular emphasis on employment issues faced by major international companies entering and doing business in Japan as well as Japanese companies looking to expand overseas. He also assists companies with the employment aspects of domestic and international M&A transactions and reorganization projects and actively engages the issues raised by a modern workforce created by the new platform economy.
Representative Legal Matters
- Acted for various domestic and international clients in relation to consolidating working conditions, performance management, working time management and other employment-related issues.
- Acted for various domestic and international clients in relation to reduction-in-force projects, including implementing voluntary resignation programs, solicitation of resignations and relocation.
- Represented various domestic and international clients in labor disputes and litigation (including ordinary court cases and before labor tribunals).
- Represented and acted for various domestic and international clients in comprehensive internal investigations triggered by allegations of wrongdoing by executives and/or employees.
- Acted for various domestic and international clients in relation to analysis and structuring of executive and employee retention plans, including long-term incentive plans and other compensation.
- Represented various domestic and international clients in due diligence, deal structuring, document drafting, negotiation and PMI in relation to M&A transactions / reorganization projects.
Professional Associations and Memberships
- Tokyo Bar Association - Member
Admissions
- Japan (2012)
Education
- Queen Mary, University of London (LLM) (2018)
- Hitotsubashi University, School of Law (JD) (2011)
- Hitotsubashi University (LLB) (2009)
Languages
- English
- Japanese
Baker & McKenzie (Gaikokuho Joint Enterprise) is a member of Baker & McKenzie International, a Swiss Verein.