{"id":38809,"date":"2026-06-11T09:28:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T09:28:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/38809\/"},"modified":"2026-06-11T09:28:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T09:28:07","slug":"jones-day-appoints-openai-secondee-as-of-counsel-in-tokyo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/38809\/","title":{"rendered":"Jones Day appoints OpenAI secondee as of counsel in Tokyo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        <a href=\"https:\/\/law.asia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Jones-Day-appoints-OpenAI-secondee-as-of-counsel-in-Tokyo.jpg\" data-caption=\"Daigo Takahashi\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"464\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Jones-Day-appoints-OpenAI-secondee-as-of-counsel-in-Tokyo-696x464.jpg\" alt=\"Daigo Takahashi\" title=\"Jones-Day-appoints-OpenAI-secondee-as-of-counsel-in-Tokyo\"\/><\/a>Daigo Takahashi<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Global law firm Jones Day has strengthened its corporate practice in Tokyo with the appointment of Daigo Takahashi as of counsel.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Takahashi joins from Morrison Foerster, where he spent more than 11 years as an associate, working across the firm\u2019s Tokyo and San Francisco offices. He was also a secondee at artificial intelligence (AI) research and deployment giant OpenAI for five months until May 2026.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He specialises in M&amp;A, divestitures, carve-outs, strategic investments, joint ventures, and other corporate matters across a range of industries, including technology, AI, semiconductors, industrials, consumer products, and health care and life sciences.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Takahashi also focuses on Japan outbound and inbound transactions, advising Japan-headquartered multinationals, their US affiliates and the broader Japanese business community in the US.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cDaigo\u2019s arrival reflects Jones Day\u2019s continued commitment to Tokyo and to the firm\u2019s strategy of having lawyers in key markets who are genuinely bilingual, cross-cultural and able to help clients navigate complex transactions across Japan and international markets,\u201d Chris Ahern, Jones Day\u2019s partner-in-charge in Japan, told Asia Business Law Journal.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Takahashi is admitted to practise in California, and his application to be a registered foreign lawyer (gaikokuho jimu bengoshi) in Japan is underway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Daigo Takahashi Global law firm Jones Day has strengthened its corporate practice in Tokyo with the appointment of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":38810,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1695,2121,2940,28601,28602,28603,28604,28605,28606,28607,2095,8,28608,28609,25842,28610,7995,10830,26116,10506,28611,2122,28612,907,52],"class_list":["post-38809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tokyo","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-california","tag-carve-outs","tag-chris-ahern","tag-consumer-products","tag-corporate-practice","tag-daigo-takahashi","tag-divestitures","tag-gaikokuho-jimu-bengoshi","tag-health-care","tag-japan","tag-japan-inbound-transactions","tag-japan-outbound-transactions","tag-joint-ventures","tag-jones-day","tag-life-sciences","tag-ma","tag-morrison-foerster","tag-openai","tag-registered-foreign-lawyer","tag-semiconductors","tag-strategic-investments","tag-technology","tag-tokyo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38809\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}