About Kaori Yamada

Kaori Yamada is a partner and head of the Asia Antitrust Group at Freshfields in Tokyo. She specialises in competition law, investigations and compliance related to “ABC” matters. Kaori advises clients on multi-jurisdictional investigation defence and merger reviews, and provides astute advice on competitor co-operation and distribution issues. Her work spans the chemicals, consumer goods, telecom, technology, energy, transport and healthcare sectors. Kaori has published a broad range of publications on competition law, and is active as a speaker in various expert panels. She is fluent in English and Japanese.