Professor Hiroyuki Watanabe

Hiroyuki Watanabe is an Affiliate Academic at University College London (UCL) and a Professor of Law in Japan. His research areas include corporate law, securities law, financial law and trusts law. He is currently interested in fundamental structural changes to capital markets and corporate governance in Japan, including takeovers, shareholder activism, investor stewardship and multi-stakeholderism.

He is the co-author of Comparative Company Law: A Case-Based Approach (2nd edition, Hart Publishing, 2018). Edited by Mathias Siems (European University Institute) and David Cabrelli (University of Edinburgh), the book's other co-authors include Pierre-Henri Conac (University of Luxembourg), Gordon Smith (Brigham Young University), Martin Gelter (Fordham University), Marco Ventoruzzo (Bocconi University), and Irene-Marie Esser (University of Glasgow).

He has published numerous articles in Japanese and English on corporate, securities, finance, and trusts law.

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After completing the Master's Programme in Law and Politics at the University of Tokyo, he was appointed as an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law at Waseda University while conducting his doctoral research. He then worked as an associate professor from 2003 to 2009 and as a professor from 2009 to 2021 at Waseda University. From 2006 to 2008, he also worked as a visiting associate professor at the University of Tokyo.

Since 2022, he has been a visiting scholar in the UK (at the universities of Oxford, London, and UCL), while working at the Centre for Business and Finance at Waseda University. He has visiting links with several other universities and institutions, including the University of Luxembourg, the University of Geneva, the University of Edinburgh, and the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law.