Japan: Corporate and Company Law

In the first week of October 2026, the world’s highest-grossing law firm announced that it will stop keeping score in public. Kirkland & Ellis informed The American Lawyer by letter that 2026 would be the last year it supplies revenue and profit figures to the press. Public reporting, the firm wrote, “does not provide meaningful value to our clients,” and the rankings it feeds “could incentivize quantitative metrics over qualitative strengths.” Justin Henry, Kirkland Goes Dark on Reporting Revenue and Profits to Media, Bloomberg L. (Oct. 7, 2026).

In recent times, the Japan Fair Trade Commission (JFTC) has turned its attention to enforcement against domestic cartels. In July 2019...

Article 102 TFEU ("Article 102") prohibits the abuse of a dominant position by undertakings that operate in the EU's Internal Market (the "Internal Market").