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Introduction

Junko Suetomi is a shareholder in the Greenberg Traurig Tokyo Law Offices and handles the firm’s international trade and dispute resolution practice. Suetomi focuses her practice on international trade laws and regulations, WTO dispute settlement, civil and criminal litigation, antitrust law, bankruptcy law and general corporate law. She has extensive experience advising clients on issues involving trade remedy matters such as an anti-dumping and countervailing duties, import restrictions, customs matters, export control and sanctions, tariff treatment and FTA/EPA applications, public procurements, among others.

Prior to joining Greenberg Traurig, Suetomi worked in the WTO Dispute Settlement Division of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ Economics Bureau. She has served as a court-appointed defence attorney in many criminal cases. She has authored and co-authored numerous publications related to her practice. She is an associate professor of Waseda University and a lecturer at the National Tax College. She is a member of the Japan Association of International Economic Law. She has served as an expert member of the Ministry of Finance’s Council on Customs, Tariff, Foreign Exchange and Other Transactions since 13 March 2019. She was appointed Bar Examiner by the Minister of Justice from November 2020 until November 2023. She has also been appointed Expert member of the Financial Council of the Financial Services Agency from October 2021 until October 2023. Suetomi was the chair of the Human Rights Committee of the Tokyo Bar Association.

Suetomi has been admitted both in Japan and New York. Suetomi has received her LLB from Tokyo University and Kyushu University and her LLM from New York University School of Law and the Cornell Law School. She has completed judicial training at Legal Research and Institute of the Supreme Court of Japan. She also holds a Certificate in Business Analytics from the Harvard Business Analytics Program (March 2021).