Keiji TONOMURA

Introduction

Keiji Tonomura is the head of Nagashima Ohno & Tsunematsu’s TMT practice team. He represents global and local clients in complex M&A and IP/IT-related business transactions, as well as regulatory matters. He focuses particularly on the TMT sector, including AI, IoT (internet of things) and robotics; autonomous vehicles and MaaS (mobility-as-a-service); fintech; web3, crypto and NFTs; metaverse and spatial computing; digital platforms; digital media and entertainment; gaming; telecommunications; legal-tech; health-tech; smart cities; and data protection and privacy.

Tonomura has also been actively involved in rule-making processes. He has served as a member of the AI institutional research group of the Cabinet Office (since 2024); the research group on consumer transactions in the digital society of the Consumer Affairs Agency (since 2024); the web3 working group of the Liberal Democratic Party of Japan (since 2022); and the task force for the creation of new markets for startups under the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (since 2022).

Tonomura holds an LLB and JD from Kyoto University. He joined Nagashima Ohno & Tsunematsu in 2007, earned his LLM from Columbia Law School in 2013 as a Harlan Fiske Stone scholar and trained at Kirkland & Ellis in Chicago from 2013 to 2014. He has been a partner at the firm since 2018.