Hiroyuki Tezuka
Partner, Nishimura & Asahi, Tokyo
Hiroyuki Tezuka is a partner at Nishimura & Asahi, and heads the firm’s international dispute resolution practice group. He specializes in international commercial litigation and arbitration. He has been involved in a number of international arbitrations as counsel, sole-arbitrator, co-arbitrator, or chairman, including before the ICC, JCAA, AAA-ICDR, VIAC, KCAB and SIAC.
Hiroyuki serves as an executive director of the Japan Association of Arbitrators, was a vice-chair of the Arbitration Committee of the IBA Legal Practice Division, and is a committee co-chair of the Dispute Resolution and Arbitration Committee at the IPBA. Since 2013, he has been a member of SIAC’s Court of Arbitration. From 2013 to 2016, he taught international arbitration at the University of Tokyo, School of Law as visiting professor. Since 2016, he has been a member of the ICC Institute of World Business Law, the ACICA council, the Seoul IDRC Advisory Board and a fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (FCIArb). He is also a member of the International Court of Arbitration of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) for Japan and since 2018 he is a Council member of the ICC Institute of World Business Law.
Hiroyuki graduated from the University of Tokyo (LL.B., 1984) and Harvard Law School (LL.M., 1992).
He is admitted as an attorney in Japan (1986) and in New York (1993).