About Shinichiro Yamashita

Shinichiro Yamashita has been a partner of Hiratsuka & Co since 2006. He graduated from the University of Tokyo, Faculty of Law in 1997, qualified in 2002, trained in liability insurance association and law firms in London and attended a University of Southampton Maritime Law Short Course in 2007. Since 2012, he has co-authored texts on Japanese insurance law and regulation. He is regularly appointed by non-Japanese insurers and reinsurers for disputes relating to Japan, and is a member of the First Tokyo Bar Association and the Insurance Committee of the International Bar Association.