Yoji Maeda

Partner

Yoji Maeda is Head of O'Melveny's Tokyo office. His broad practice area covers litigation, labor and employment matters and M&A.

Yoji litigates and arbitrates complex and/or international cases both in Japan and America. Yoji also has been involved in structuring litigation strategy for mass tort cases and other complex cases.

Yoji's focus in his employment and labor law practice is to advise non-Japanese clients on various issues under Japanese laws, and litigate labor disputes before Japanese courts and labor commissions.

Yoji occasionally handles strategic M&A matters in the industries of consumer products and consumer financing.

A native and citizen of Japan, Yoji received his LL.B. degree in Law from the Faculty of Law, Tokyo University in 1988. He also received his LL.M. degree from the University of Virginia Law School in 1994. He passed the pre-bar examination in 1987 and received his law degree from the Legal Research and Training Institute of the Supreme Court of Japan in 1990. He is admitted to practice in Japan and New York.

Professional Activities

Author, Regular writer on legal developments for the Nikkei Business and Nikkei Venture magazines; author of many books and articles covering a variety of areas, including M&A, hostile takeover defense, general corporate law, product liability, civil procedure, and employment law
Member, Dai-ni Tokyo Bar Association
Languages, Japanese; English