Satoshi Nomura | ZeLo, a Foreign Law Joint Enterprise

Practice Areas

Education

2005: Columbia Law School, NY, USA / LL.M.

1997: The University of Tokyo, Faculty of Law / Bachelor of Law

Experience

2023: The Best Lawyers in Japan 2024 - Real Estate Law

2023: The Legal 500 Asia Pacific 2023 - "Firms To Watch" in Real Estate And Construction: Independent Local Firms

2022: The Best Lawyers in Japan 2023 - Real Estate Law

2021: The Best Lawyers in Japan 2022 - Real Estate Law

2021: The Legal 500 - Japan - Rising Star Bengoshi (Fintech)

2021: The Legal 500 - Japan - Rising Star Bengoshi (Real Estate)

2020: Joined ZeLo

2010: Joined Clifford Chance Tokyo (-2020)

2005: Joined Porter, Wright, Morris & Arthur (-2007)

2005: Passed the NY State Bar Examination (Registered in 2009)

2000: Joined Nagashima Ohno & Tsunematsu (-2010)

2000: Registered with Tokyo Bar Association

1997: Passed Japan Bar Exam

Representative Works

Advice of general corporate matters to listed companies and private companies (internal control, corporate design, meeting management)
Advice as to establishment and daily management of start-up companies, Japanese branch offices, JVs
Providing general legal advice and supports as to Japanese legal system to overseas entrepreneurs
Providing supports to municipal government and other start-up facilitation bodies and relevant companies
Advice regarding fund raising activities including equity, share options, debt financing and securitization. Proposal of stock option arrangements
Support for license and approval application in Japan for overseas companies and application overseas for Japanese companies
Support for overseas company establishment and closure
Advice for overseas investors to make investments into Japanese start-up companies, real properties and others. Assisting Japanese investors to make overseas investments
Domestic/global data protection and cyber-security
Drafting and reviewing of English language agreements and documents
Management and handling of cross border transactions
Advice for domestic/global sponsors, Asset Managers and Lenders in relation to real property non-recourse loan transactions (logistics facilities, residential properties, office, hotel and accommodation and shopping malls, including development of buildings and establishment of investment platform and cross border JVs)
Scheme establishment and analysis, creation, maintenance. documentation and closing for transactions based upon Asset Liquidation Act (TMK), GK-TK, and Real Properties Specified Joint Ventures Act
Regulatory advice for financial and other regulations (Japanese and global regulations, bank, securities, money lending, trust, fund settlement, credit card, telecommunications, pharmaceutical equipments) and assistance to obtain license
Acquisition finance/LBO, outbound acquisition transactions (Vietnam, Indonesia, Mongolia, South Korea, U.S., European countries and other jurisdictions), and export finance transactions
Advice and support for supervision and regulatory requirements and support for scandal cases
Domestic and cross-border syndicated loan transactions. Documentation in Japanese and English languages
Advice regarding overseas dispute resolutions (litigation, meditation and arbitration), collection of receivables and local bankruptcy proceedings
FinTech and other Tech related regulatory advice including Payment Services Act and license application
Asset securitization, repackaging transactions and trust transactions (self trust and trust lending/borrowing)
Scheme development and documentation for structured finance transactions and projects
Establishment, reorganization and closure of overseas branch or rep offices of Japanese and global financial institutions and other companies
Global/domestic resolution and reorganization regulations for financial institutions (Insurance Deposit Act, Basel)
Legal advice for derivatives transactions and margin regulations and relevant documentation
Financial, commodity, and crypto-assets derivatives regulatory matters and license application
Space law and geo-technologies legal analysis and in-bound introduction of overseas regulations and out-bound introduction of Japanese regulations for those areas