Hiroyuki Tezuka

Partner, Nishimura & Asahi

Hiroyuki Tezuka heads Nishimura & Asahi’s international dispute resolution practice. He has been involved in a number of international arbitrations as counsel, sole-arbitrator, co-arbitrator and chair, including before the ICC, the JCAA, the AAA-ICDR, VIAC, the KCAB and SIAC.

Hiroyuki currently serves as a vice president of the Japan Association of Arbitrators and was a vice-chair of the Arbitration Committee of the IBA Legal Practice Division and was a committee co-chair of the Dispute Resolution and Arbitration Committee of the IPBA. Since 2013, he has been a member of SIAC’s Court of Arbitration. From 2013 to 2016, he taught international arbitration at the University of Tokyo, School of Law as a visiting professor. Since 2016, he has been a member of the ACICA Council, the Seoul IDRC Advisory Board and a fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (FCIArb). He is also a member of the International Court of Arbitration of the ICC for Japan and has been a council member of the ICC Institute of World Business Law since 2018.

Hiroyuki graduated from the University of Tokyo (LLB, 1984) and Harvard Law School (LLM, 1992).

He is admitted as an attorney in Japan (1986) and in New York (1993).