{"id":5371,"date":"2026-01-05T15:25:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T06:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southgate-law.com\/?p=5371"},"modified":"2026-01-05T15:16:59","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T06:16:59","slug":"5371","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southgate-law.com\/en\/news\/202601-5371\/","title":{"rendered":"Anthony J. Luna joins southgate"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>We are delighted to announce that <a href=\"https:\/\/southgate-law.com\/en\/attorneys\/anthony-luna\/\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"5344\">Anthony J. Luna<\/a> joined southgate on January 1, 2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Anthony practices in the areas of M&amp;A, VC, technology, and AI governance. He brings a dual perspective rarely found in the Japanese legal market, having served as the general counsel of a leading global IT company and M&amp;A partner of a top-tier international firm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Anthony joins southgate from IBM Japan, Ltd., where he served as Senior Operating Officer, Board Member, and General Counsel, overseeing all legal, IP, regulatory, and security functions and leading a department of approximately 45 legal professionals. While at IBM, Anthony garnered numerous awards from Chambers, Legal500, and ALB as a leading GC in Asia, as did the IBM legal department as a leading in-house team during Anthony\u2019s tenure there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Anthony began his legal career in Silicon Valley, representing emerging growth companies and venture investors. He then relocated to Tokyo, completed a secondment at Itochu, and became partner at Jones Day, where he represented large Japanese and international companies in cross-border acquisitions, joint ventures, strategic alliances, and commercial transactions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Anthony teaches classes on AI and venture capital at Keio Law School.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are delighted to announce that Anthony J. Luna joined southgate on January 1, 2026. Anthony practices in the areas of M&amp;A, VC, technology, and AI governance. He brings a dual perspective rarely found in the Japanese legal market, having served as the general counsel of a leading global IT company and M&amp;A partner of  [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southgate-law.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southgate-law.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southgate-law.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southgate-law.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southgate-law.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5371"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/southgate-law.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5376,"href":"https:\/\/southgate-law.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5371\/revisions\/5376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southgate-law.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southgate-law.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southgate-law.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}