Keiji Tonomura

Keiji is head of NO&T’s TMT Practice Team. Keiji’s practice focuses on M&A, IP/IT-related transactions, and data security/privacy matters. He has extensive experience representing global and local clients on complex business transactions as well as regulatory matters, with a particular focus on the TMT sectors, including new business fields such as AI/IoT, MaaS/CASE, Fintech, Blockchain/Crypto and NFT, as well as gaming and entertainment. Also, has been actively involved in the rule-making processes; for instance, he has served as a member of: “AI Institutional Research Group”(Cabinet Office) (2024-) “Project Team on Innovation and Implementation of AI” (Liberal Democratic Party of Japan) (2023-) “Research Group on Consumer Transactions in Digital Society” (Consumer Affairs Agency) (2024-) “web3 Project Team” (Liberal Democratic Party of Japan) (2022-) “Task Force for Creation of New Markets for Startups” (Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry) (2022-) · Nagashima Ohno & Tsunematsu