Hisaya Kimura

Hisaya Kimura is a Partner in our Tokyo office. He specialises in international disputes litigation. Mr. Kimura joined the firm in 2024.

Prior to joining Quinn Emanuel, Mr. Kimura began his career as a lawyer at the offices of the late Ekizo Fujibayashi, the only lawyer in Japan to have served as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. He then obtained his LL.M. from Harvard Law School and was admitted to the State Bar of New York State. Mr. Kimura remained at Harvard as a visiting researcher before joining    Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy in New York, where he primarily worked on large international disputes for Japanese companies for the next two years.

After returning to Japan, he joined  Nagashima & Ohno (now Nagashima Ohno & Tsunematsu) as an associate – and eventually making partner - where he focused on international disputes including foreign litigation, international arbitration, international mediation, and international negotiations primarily for Japanese companies. He also represented Japanese and foreign companies in Japanese courts in some of the largest and most significant litigations in Japan. Mr. Kimura was elected to his previous firm’s Management Committee a total of five terms (10 years), and was directly involved in the management of the firm and was the representative partner for the attorneys engaged in dispute resolution for many years.

Mr. Kimura has extensive experience in a wide range of disputes, including in the areas of business alliance conflicts, finance and securities, competition, environmental and pollution, IT, labor, product liability, and intellectual property.