Practice Areas
Education
- 2005
- Columbia Law School, NY, USA / LL.M.
- 1997
- The University of Tokyo, Faculty of Law / Bachelor of Law
Experience
- 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
Awards & Rankings
- 2024
- The Best Lawyers in Japan 2025 - Real Estate Law
- 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)
Activities
- 一般財団法人 外務精励会 理事（2021年6月～）
