Recommendations and Awards

• Legal 500 2012 Leading Individual
  • Structured Finance / Securitisation
  • Banking and Finance 
  • Capital Markets
  • Projects and Energy 
• IFLR1000 2012 Leading Lawyer
  • Capital Markets: Structured Finance and Securitization
  • Banking
• Corporate INTL 50 BEST Lawyers in Japan 2011
  • Capital Markets Law
• Chambers Asia Pacific 2011 Band 1 Leading Individual
  • Banking and Finance
  • Capital Markets: Securitisation & Structured Finance
• PLC Which Lawyer? 2011 Individual Recommendation
  • Real Estate: Local Advice
  • Banking and Finance: Local Advice
  • Capital Markets: Debt and Equity
  • Capital Markets: Securitisation
• Lawyer Monthly Leading LAWYER 100 Asia Pacific 2011
  • Banking & Finance
• Legal 500 2011 Leading Individual
  • Securitization
  • Banking and Finance
  • Projects and Energy
• IFLR1000 2011 Leading Lawyer
  • Capital Markets: Structured Finance and Securitization
  • Banking
• Asia Law Leading Lawyers — Japan, 2010
  • Leading Lawyer — Securitization & Structured Finance
• Best Lawyers 2010
  • Asset Finance
  • Banking and Finance Law
  • Structured Finance
• Legal Media Guides to the World’s Leading Lawyers 2010
  • Structured Finance and Securitization
  • Banking
• Legal 500 2010 Leading Individual
  • Banking and Finance
  • Projects and Energy
• IFLR1000 2010 Leading Lawyer
  • Banking
  • Capital Markets — Structured Finance and Securitization
• Asia Law Leading Lawyers—Japan, 2009
  • Leading Lawyer—Securitization & Structured Finance
• Best Lawyers 2009
  • Asset Finance
  • Banking and Finance Law
  • Structured Finance
• IFLR1000 2009 Leading Lawyer
  • Banking
  • Capital Markets — Structured Finance and Securitization
• Chambers Asia 2009 Band 1 Leading Individual
  • Banking and Finance
  • Capital Markets: Securitisation & Structured Finance
• Legal 500 2009 Leading Individual
  • Banking and Finance
  • Projects
• AsiaLaw Leading Lawyers 2008
  • Leading Lawyer — Securitization & Structured Finance
• Chambers Global 2008 Band 1 Leading Individual
  • Banking & Finance
  • Capital Markets: Securitisation
• IFLR1000 2008 Leading Individual
  • Banking and Finance
  • Projects
• Legal Media Guides to the World’s Leading Lawyers 2008
  • Securitization & Structured Finance
  • Banking
  • Project Finance
• PLC Which Lawyer? 2008 Leading Individual
  • Banking: Lenders & Borrowers
• AsiaLaw Leading Lawyers 2007 Leading Lawyer
  • Securitization & Structured Finance
• Chambers Global 2007 Band 1 Leading Individual
  • Banking and Finance
  • Capital Markets: Securitisation
• IFLR1000 2007 Leading Individual
  • Banking and Finance
  • Projects and Energy
• PLC Which Lawyer? 2007 Leading Individual
  • Finance: Banking
• PLC Cross Border Finance: Secured Lending 2007/2008
  • Leading Individual—Banking
  • Recommended Individual—Debt Capital Markets
• AsiaLaw Leading Lawyers 2006 Leading Lawyer
  • Securitization & Structured Finance
• Chambers Global 2006 Band 1 Leading Individual
  • Banking and Finance
  • Capital
  • Markets: Securitisation
• IFLR1000 2006 Leading Individual
  • Banking and Finance
  • Projects and Energy
• PLC Which Lawyer? 2006
  • Leading Individual—Finance: Banking
  • Highly Recommended Individual—Corporate Real Estate
  • Recommended Individual—Finance: Debt Finance

Publications

• Theory and Practice of TMKs—Asset Liquidation Using TMKs by Kinzai Institute for Financial Affairs (2009) [Co-author]
• "Securtisation 2008/09 Country Q&A Japan"PLC Cross-border Handbooks: Finance Volume 2 Practical Law Company (2008) [Co-author]
• "Secured Lending 2008/09 Country Q&A Japan" PLC Cross-border Handbooks: Finance Volume 1 Practical Law Company (2008) [Co-Author]
• "Japan Overview" The Legal Media Group Guide to the World’s Leading Structured Finance and Securitization Lawyers IFLR (2007) [Co-author]
• "Secured Lending 2007/08 Country Q&A Japan"PLC Cross-border Handbooks Practical Law Company (2007) [Co-author]
• "Legal Aspects (of aircraft registered in Japan)" Airfinance Annual 2002/2003 [Co-author]
• "Legal Aspects of PFI Financing in Japan" Japan Now Open For Business, The Essential Investment Guide From Asia Law & Practice (1999)
• "A case of securitization of bank loan assets in U.K.—Structure of Rose Fund"(in Japanese) NBL No. 618 (1997)
• "Legal Aspects (of aircraft registered in Japan)" Airfinance Annual 1994/95
• "Opinion on asset-backed CP—Discussion on taxation in connection with securitization overseas of domestic debt obligations" (in Japanese) NBL No. 517 (1993)
• “Relative rules for securitization in the Cayman Islands” (Translation) (in Japanese)NBL No. 529 (1993)
• "New Amendment Strengthens Shareholder Control" Asia Law (August, 1993)
• "International Banking, Japan" International Financial Law Review, Special Supplement (September, 1992)
• "The Daiwa Scandal" Asia Law (December, 1995/January,1996) [Co-author]

Seminars

• "Legal Issues associated with Securing Lease Receivables in Japanese Leveraged Lease Transactions—From the Lenders' Viewpoint", March 14, 1994, organized by the Business Law Institute (Shoji-Homu-Kenkyu-Kai)