About Shiro Kato

Shiro Kato is a partner at Nagashima Ohno & Tsunematsu. He provides advice to athletes, sports teams, event organisers and sponsors on all aspects of international sports law, including negotiating sponsorship deals for sponsors, athletes or sports organisations, advising sports content/service providers on Web3-related matters and sports tech, representing clients before the Court of Arbitration for Sport and providing advice on dispute resolution and risk management generally. He graduated from the University of California in Los Angeles, School of Law (LLM) with a specialisation in entertainment, media, and IP and has worked for a sports agency in Los Angeles. He is admitted to the Japanese Bar and the State Bar of California.