About Takamasa Horio
Takamasa Horio
is a partner at Mori Hamada & Matsumoto. He specialises in the healthcare sector and related industries, and provides legal services, mainly to pharmaceutical and medical device companies, with a focus on regulatory and compliance matters, crisis management, M&A, licensing and commercial transactions. He also advises on cannabis-related businesses. The first private practice lawyer to be seconded to the Pharmaceutical Bureau of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (MHLW), for three years he handled matters relating to approvals of pharmaceuticals and medical devices, violations of the Pharmaceuticals and Medical Devices Act, and administrative actions; and served as a member of the MHLW study group on countermeasures against cannabis and other drugs.