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Kengo Maekawa

Founder & CEO

Before founding Shiodome Partners Group, Kengo Maekawa conducted statutory auditing of publicly listed corporations for Shin-nihon Audit Corporation the member firm of Ernst & Young. He presided over IPO support strategies, Mergers & Acquisitions, Due Diligence, and more, ensuring a smooth transition for corporate clients at all sides of the transaction. Kengo also established Shiodome Partners Group in 2008 as the President and Representative Director before ascending as the company’s Chief Executive Officer in 2009. Kengo is a Certified Public/Tax Accountant and Administrative Scrivener.

Kengo Maekawa

Shusuke Hirano

Managing Partner

Shusuke Hirano began his career at Showa Audit Corporation (now Ernst & Young ShinNihon LLC) in 1982. In 2008, he founded Kyodo Tax Corporation and became the Representative Partner; in 2018, the company merged with Shiodome Partners Tax Co. and he remains as the Representative Partner.

Shusuke Hirano

Yuya Hasegawa

Partner

Yuya Hasegawa had worked for an accounting firm in Tokyo before joining Shiodome Partners in 2011. After he completed his registration as a certified tax accountant in 2015, he became the Representative Partner of Shiodome Partners Tax Co. and subsequently served as the general manager of its key division, the Accounting and Tax Division.

Yuya Hasegawa

Ryota Matsuhashi

Partner

Ryota Matsuhashi joined Shiodome Partners Group in 2012 after working for an accounting firm in Tokyo. He has extensive knowledge of corporate tax, consumption tax, business tax, inheritance tax, and other corporate related taxation as well as business succession. He also played a key role in expanding the accounting and taxation division through marketing strategies.

Ryota Matsuhashi

Akinari Tsuchiya

Partner

Before working for Shiodome Partners, Akinari Tsuchiya worked for Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu LLC, a member firm of DTC, and engaged in accounting audits for listed companies. In 2012, he joined PricewaterhouseCoopers Hong Kong/China as a manager of Japanese companies business development department.

Akinari Tsuchiya

Jun Kurozumi

International Contact Partner

Jun started his career as a professional translator before he landed a job in accounting for BDO Tax Co. He was given the opportunity to work as a consultant for foreign affiliated companies before ultimately taking on corporate management roles for clients like H&M and Volvo as an outsourcing tax accountant and personnel/ labor manager. After joining Shiodome Partners Group in 2012, he now leads our international team for both outbound and inbound clients.

Jun Kurozumi

Satoshi Sekiguchi

Partner

Satoshi Sekiguchi is a partner of RSM Shiodome Partners SR Co.. He has years of experience in payroll and social insurance calculation services as well as in providing payroll and labor consulting services for a broad range of companies including public companies, companies preparing to go public, and foreign subsidiaries.

Satoshi Sekiguchi

Munenori Ishikawa

Partner

Munenori Ishikawa is a partner of RSM Shiodome Partners JS Co.. After passing the judicial scrivener exam, Munenori worked at several judicial scrivener offices that specialized in real estate registration, company registration, inheritance, and court trials. He later established his own office in 2015, where he mainly focused on real estate registration and corporate law. He then joined Shiodome Partners Group in 2016 and became an Outside Audit & Supervisory Board Member of Shiodome Partners Limited in 2020.

Munenori Ishikawa

Keisuke Takahashi

Partner

After graduating from university, Keisuke Takahashi engaged in consulting work at a Tokyo-based firm with his main tasks focused on human resources and labor affairs. Following the merger of Notus Management & Labor Office and Shiodome Partners SR Co. in April 2022, he became a Partner of RSM Shiodome Partners SR Co..

Keisuke Takahashi

Masakazu Yamaoka

Partner

After working for the Tokyo Social Insurance Bureau, Masakazu Yamaoka engaged mainly in human resources and labor affairs including mid-career recruitment, revision and operation of rules and regulations, labor management, and payroll operations. In February 2022, he became a Partner of RSM Shiodome Partners SR Co..

Masakazu Yamaoka