Tsuyoshi Ikeda

Antitrust Council, Mori Hamada&Matsumoto

Tsuyoshi (Yoshi) Ikeda is an antitrust counsel at Mori Hamada & Matsumoto. As a former official of the Investigation Bureau of the

Japan Fair Trade Commission (JFTC), Yoshi has extensive experience in all aspects of antitrust/competition issues, including cartels,

merger filings, and distribution issues in both domestic and international (multi-jurisdictional) arenas. At the JFTC, he engaged in,

among others, the implementation of the leniency program in Japan and a number of dawn raids (on-site inspections).

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Yoshi has been representing multinational companies before the JFTC in international cartels and second phase review merger cases.

Yoshi also advises on IP-related antitrust issues such as licensing, and cases involving standard-essential patents (SEPs), making the best

 use of his experience as an investigator in the IP/IT Taskforce at the JFTC. He has additional expertise in consumer protection issues,

such as misleading advertisements, as well as anti-bribery issues.

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​Yoshi has been listed as a leading expert in competition law in Chambers Asia, since 2014. He was appointed as an officer of IBA’s

Antitrust Committee in 2017. He frequently serves as a speaker in international conferences, such as ICN (as a non-governmental

adviser (NGA) for the JFTC) and IBA.

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Yoshi is a graduate of Kyoto University (LLB, 2002) and University of California, Berkeley, School of Law (Boalt Hall) (LLM, 2008).  He is

admitted in Japan, New York and California. He was a lecturer at Kindai University and is a specially appointed professor at Kanazawa

institute of Technology. His comments have been frequently quoted in the most popular financial newspaper in Japan, the Nikkei, for

more than fifteen times.