Publications
Sho Tanakais a partner at Momo-o, Matsuo & Namba. His extensive and varied practice includes international arbitration and cross-border and domestic litigation. In addition to representing clients in arbitral proceedings, he has represented clients in arbitration-related court proceedings such as the enforcement of foreign arbitral awards. He has also served as a lecturer in 2022 and 2023 for an elective course on international arbitration for legal apprentices who have passed the National Bar Examination. He was admitted to the Tokyo Bar Association in 2015. He received his LLM from the University of California, Berkeley School of Law in 2021 (Dean’s List) and was admitted to the New York Bar in 2022. He served as a visiting attorney in the Washington, DC office of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati P.C. from 2021 to 2022.
Co-author of the Japan chapter in the Arbitration Law Guide , published 3 June 2025 , alongside Junya Naito , Tsuyoshi Suzuki and Shin Setoyama .