Ms. Hodaka is a partner of Ito & Mitomi. Her practice focuses on general corporate, M&A and litigation matters, including issues related to director’s liability and hostile acquisitions.

Ms. Hodaka received her LL.B. from Keio University in 1988, graduated from the Legal Training and Research Institute of the Supreme Court of Japan in 1992 and received her LL.M. from New York University School of Law in 1998. Ms. Hodaka received her MBA degree, magna cum laude, in 2004 from International University in Geneva. From July 2001 to May 2004, she worked as a foreign law counsel at law firms of Python, Shifferli & Peter and Briner & Brunisholz in Geneva, Switzerland.