Shigeki Minami

Shigeki Minami is an attorney-at law admitted in Japan in 1997. Shigeki is a partner at Nagashima Ohno & Tsunematsu, a Japanese law firm with over 500 lawyers located principally in Tokyo, and in New York and across Eastern Asia. He advises international clients on a wide range of tax issues in disputes and transactions. His experiences cover transfer pricing, international reorganizations, cross-border merger and acquisitions, anti-tax-haven (CFC) rules, non-resident withholding tax issues, and other international and corporate tax matters. He has successfully obtained significant judgments in his representation of large corporate clients. Such clients include a leading U.S. information technology company in a case involving anti-avoidance rules, and a global Japanese car manufacturer, a global Japanese pharmaceutical manufacturer, and a leading Japanese ceramic manufacturer in transfer pricing cases.

Mr. Minami served as the Chair of the Asia-Pacific Regional Committee of the International Fiscal Association (IFA) from 2016 to 2018, and currently serves as a member of the Practice Council of the International Tax Program at New York University School of Law. In addition, Mr. Minami is a member of the Study Group for the Global Minimum Tax under Pillar Two, which was established by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry of Japan in 2022.

Education:

LL.B., University of Tokyo (1994)
LL.M., Corporate Law, New York University School of Law (2002)
LL.M., Taxation, New York University School of Law (2003)