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Takayuki (Taka) Matsui, Partner
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Born in 1961, Takayuki Matsui graduated with a LL.B. degree from the Hitotsubashi University in 1986. After graduation, he practiced for five years in the Hull Section of the Maritime Claim Department of the Nippon Fire & Marine Insurance Company. He was involved in various hull claims including collisions, salvage, stranding, oil spills, and personal injury. He passed the bar examination in 1990. After graduation from national law school (the Legal Training and Research Institute of the Supreme Court in Japan), he was admitted to the bar in 1993.
Matsui spent two years as an associate in Yoshida & Partners, a traditional shipping law firm. There he mainly handled oil spills, cargo recovery and defense, and collisions for mainly Japanese insurers. Prior to joining Max Law Office he studied maritime practice in shipping law firms in the City of London for a period of one year from 1995 to 1996. In August 1996 he returned to Japan and joined Max Law Office as a ship litigation partner in August 1996.
Matsui's focus at Max Law Office has been collisions, cargo defense, personal injury, arrest, and maritime disputes in court and TOMAC arbitration. He also has substantial experience in ship mortgage enforcement. He is qualified as Maritime Proctor in the Japanese Maritime Court and is a sub-member of the Japanese Average Adjusters Association. In 1999 he earned a LL.M. in Admiralty from Tulane Law School, New Orleans, Louisiana. He is author of Time Charter Party, published in 2004. He speaks English and Japanese.
Matsui is a member of the Tokyo Bar Association. He is a member of the Japan Shipping Exchange, the Japan Institute of Navigation, The Japan Society of Transportation Economics and the Japan Maritime Law Association. Since 2006, he is a guest professor at Miyazaki Sangyo-keiei University.
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