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Tsurusaki & Kobayashi (T&K Partners)

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Name YUTAKA TSURUSAKI
Title Attorney-at-Law (First Tokyo Bar Association)
Marine Proctor
Education
  • Faculty of Law, Tokyo University (LL.B., Private Law Course, 1976)
  • Legal Training and Research Institute of the Supreme Court (1976-1978)
  • University of London (U.C.L., Graduate School; Diploma in Shipping Law, 1982)
  • Member First Tokyo Bar Association
  • Having practiced in Messrs. Hiratsuka & Partners for 27 years
Languages Japanese and English
Practice Areas International and domestic commercial transactions and disposal of disputes and accident/casualties, Maritime, Admiralty; Charterparty Disputes; International Litigation/Arbitration; Marine Insurance; Non-Marine Insurance; Licensing Contract, Anti-Trust matters, Joint Venture, Corporate Legal and General matters. Involved in various cargo claim defence cases, collision/grounding/sinking/oil pollution cases, charterparty arbitration cases, non-marine contract dispute cases (such as distribution agreement and license agreement) and others.
Others
  • Author: ¡ÈFor the Early Re-revision of the Revised international Carriage of Goods by Sea Act¡É, Kaiun, 1993, ¡ÈA Japanese Arbitration Award and Recognition by the Court of the Republic of China (Taiwan)¡É, Maritime Law Review, 2005 ¡ÈShipping Industry/Sipping Company and Competition Law¡É(published by The Japan Shipping Exchange Inc, ¡ÈJSEx¡É.).
  • Co-author: ¡ÈArrest of Vessels in Japan¡É LMCLQ, 1981; ¡ÈSignificant Changes under New Japan COGSA 1992,¡É International Maritime Law, 1994.
  • Co-speaker at the 1996 of the Pacific Admiralty Seminar in San Francisco.
  • Various articles in the journals published by, and others, an arbitrator of Tokyo Maritime Arbitration Commission of JSEx.
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Name FUKASHI KOBAYASHI
Title Attorney-at-Law (First Tokyo Bar Association)
Marine Proctor
Education
  • Faculty of Law, Waseda University (LL.B., 1985)
  • Legal Training and Research Institute of the Supreme Court of Japan (1986-1988),
  • Member First Tokyo Bar Association
  • Having practiced in Messrs. Hiratsuka & Partners, as associate and later as partner, for 17 years.
Languages Japanese and English
Practice Areas
  • Maritime and Admiralty; Commercial Dispute Resolution: Insurance; Bankruptcy and Insolvency; Giving advice on contracts regarding intellectual property.
  • Cases involved includes Supreme Court judgment as to identity of carrier under Japanese law("Jasmine"), and Matsuyama District Court Judgment on the Governing law to determine the owner of a vessel ("Carolyn").
Others
  • Co-speaker at the 2003 Meeting of the Institute of Maritime Law in Japan.

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Name CHU MARUYAMA
Title Master Mariner
Marine Proctor
Education
  • University of Tokyo of Mercantile (Currently Tokyo University ofMarine Science & Technology)
  • Officers and Master of Ocean Going Vessels
  • T & K Partners (2014)
Languages Japanese and English
Practice Areas
  • Area Master Mariner, Marine Proctor
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