Hiroyuki Tanaka
Partner
One of 2024’s top 3 best-performing AI, Tech, and Data lawyers (as selected by companies) in Nikkei’s corporate legal affairs and lawyer survey of the Japanese market
Nikkei
Recognized in Lexology Index Global Elite Thought Leader Client Choice 2025 – Data
Lexology
Recognized in Best Lawyers 2025 Privacy and Data Security Law “Lawyer of the Year” in Tokyo
Best Lawyers
Recognized in IAM Patent 1000 (2024)– Japan (Litigation)
IAM Patent 1000
Practices
Seminars
Past
September 5, 2024 (Thu) 4:45 p.m. - 5:45 p.m. (CET)”Cyber Avatars, Artificial Intelligence and Intellectual Property: The Japanese Perspective”External Seminars
Past
July 29, 2024 (Mon) 3:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m."Ensuring Safety and Security for Cybernetic Avators: Addressing E3LSI Challenges"External Seminars
Current
Past
September 09, 2021 (Thu) 15:50～16:50"The Japan DPO Association's 7th Seminar of the Study Group "How to Be Compliant With Advertising and Ad Tech (Cookie-Related) Regulations - Focusing on the Regulation of Personal Related Information under the Amended Act on Protection of Personal InformExternal Seminars
Past
May 26, 2021 (Wed) 13:00～14:00"Live Seminar Key Points of the Draft Guidelines for the Amended APPI"External Seminars
Past
Past
July 24, 2018 (Tue) 2:00pm-6:00pm"The 9th Seminar on Practical GDPR Compliance (the Impact of Consent Requirements under GDPR on Cookie, Advertising and Marketing)"External Seminars
Past
January 24, 2018 (Wed) 2:30pm-5:30pm"The 6th Seminar on Practical GDPR Compliance (GDPR Guidelines regarding Consent and Transparency)"External Seminars
Past
November 22, 2017 (Wed) 2:00pm-5:00pm"The 5th Seminar on Practical GDPR Compliance (GDPR Guidelines regarding DPIA, Data Breach Notice, Automatic Processing and Profiling, Administrative Fines)"External Seminars
Past
August 30, 2017 (Wed) 2:00pm-5:15pm”The 3rd Seminar on Practical GDPR Compliance”External Seminars
Past
August 09, 2017 (Wed) 3:00pm-5:00pm"Compliance with the European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)"MH Seminars
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Major Awards
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・Recognized in Lexology Index Global Elite Thought Leader Client Choice 2025 – Data
・Recognized in Best Lawyers 2025 Privacy and Data Security Law “Lawyer of the Year” in Tokyo
・Recognized in IAM Patent 1000 (2024)– Japan (Litigation)
・Recognized in Best Lawyers 2025 in Technology Law area
・One of 2024’s top 3 best-performing AI, Tech, and Data lawyers (as selected by companies) in Nikkei’s corporate legal affairs and lawyer survey of the Japanese market
・One of 2022’s Best Performing Lawyers in the Intellectual Property area in Nikkei’s corporate legal affairs and lawyer survey of the Japanese market
Profile
Background
Keio University (LL.B., 2004)
Keio University Law School (J.D., 2006)
New York University School of Law (LL.M. in Competition, Innovation, and Information Law, Concentration in Intellectual Property Law, 2013)
Clayton Utz, Sydney, Australia (2013-2014)
Lecturer (Intellectual Property Law I) at Keio University (Department of Law)(2018)
Major Activities
- Adjunct project professor at Keio University Graduate School of Law(2023-) and Lecturer at Keio Law School (subject: Intellectual Property from a Global Perspective for LL.M. in Global Legal Practice) (2024-)
- Member of the Cyber-Physical Sustainability Center of Keio University Global Research Institute (2023-)
- Researchers for Japan Science and Technology Agency’s Moonshot R&D Program Moonshot Goal1: Realization of a society in which human beings can be free from limitations of body, brain, space, and time by 2050 /Realization of a society where avatars can be used safely and reliably (2023-)
- Lecturer for Training to Ensure Skills as Counsel in Proceedings Alleging Specific Infringement, Japan Patent Attorneys Association (teaching Design Act) (2024-)
- Advisor to Japan DPO Association
- Member of AI and Law Society (Chairperson of Generative AI Section / Member of Privacy Section and IP Section)
- Member of Japan Association of Industrial Property Law
- Member of Copyright Law Association of Japan
- Member of Information Network Law Association
- Member of Law and Computers Association of Japan
- Member of Association of Law and Information Systems
- Member of International Association of Privacy Professionals
Qualifications & Affiliations
admitted in Japan, 2007; New York, 2014
membership: Daini-Tokyo Bar Association
membership: Daini-Tokyo Bar Association
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