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. He is the first private practice lawyer to be seconded to the Pharmaceutical Safety and Environmental Health Bureau of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (MHLW), where he worked for three years, handling matters relating to approvals of pharmaceuticals and medical devices, violations of the Pharmaceuticals and Medical Devices Act, and administrative actions. He also served as a member of the study group on countermeasures against cannabis and other drugs convened by the MHLW.