Recommendations and Awards

• Legal 500 2012 Leading Individual
  • Structured Finance / Securitisation 
  • Corporate and M&A

Publications

• "Structured Covered Bonds in Japan and Europe", Business Homu, CHUOKEIZAI-SHA, INC. (September, 2011) [Co-author]
• Financial Instruments and Exchange Act Volume 3: Conduct Regulation, Kinzai (2010) [Co-author]
• "ADR in Business Restructuring: a Q&A" Turnaround Manager, Banking Education Co., Ltd. (January, 2010) [Co-author]
• "Comparisons and Transformation of the Fiduciary Duty Obligation between Japan and the USA," Shoji Homu no. 1804, the Commercial Law Center, 2007 [Co-author]
• "Japan's international insolvency laws," Asian Counsel Vol. 2 Issue 7, September 2004
• "Financing to insolvent companies in Japan," Global Insolvency & Restructuring Yearbook 2004/5 [Co-author]
• "Q&A Corporate Law Amendments of 2002—The Establishment of a Committee System and Rethinking of Shareholding System and General Meetings of Shareholders," Dai-ichi Tokyo Bar Association General Legal Research Division, Corporate Section Ed., published in Japanese by Shin-Nihon Hoki [Co-author]
• "Q&A Corporate Law Amendments of 2001—Stock Options and Shareholder Representative Suits," Dai-ichi Tokyo Bar Association General Legal Research Division, Corporate Section Ed., published in Japanese by Shin-Nihon Hoki [Co-author]

Web Articles

• “Japan moves to facilitate rights offerings” Practical Law Company (February, 2011)
• “Japan’s Financial Services Agency provides detailed rules on centralised clearance of OTC” Practical Law Company (December, 2010)
• “Tokyo Stock Exchange to Launch PRO-BOND Market” Practical Law Company (November, 2010)
• “Government Forges Ahead with Public-Private Fund for Infrastructure Projects” Practical Law Company (October, 2010)
• “FSA of Japan provides clarification regarding the application of tender offer rules” Practical Law Company (May, 2010)
• “The financial markets in Japan 2009 and outlook for 2010″ Practical Law Company (January, 2010) [Co-author]
• “New option for out-of-court workouts for Japanese companies” Practical Law Company (October, 2009)
• “New taxation rules aimed at stimulating foreign investment in funds that invest in equities” Practical Law Company (September, 2009)
• “US activist hedge fund wins Japanese company’s board vote” Practical Law Company (July, 2009)
• “Wholesale amendments to the Claims Law of the Civil Code of Japan” Practical Law Company (May, 2009)
• “Japanese stock exchanges setting up framework for a remote trading participant system” Practical Law Company (April, 2009)

Seminars

• "Marketing Foreign-Domiciled Funds and Role of the Gatekeeper", hosted by Seminar-info, November 24, 2011
• "U.S. and Japanese regulatory issues affecting Hedge Funds",
  IQPC's 5th Annual Hedge Funds Investments Japan Congress, May 25, 2010
• "Structured Covered Bonds – In Light of Overseas Covered Bonds",
  hosted by Kinyu Zaimu Kenkyukai, May 11, 2011
• "Case Study on Hypothetical Non-Japanese Fund Seeking Investors in Japan",
  IQPC's 4th Annual Hedge Funds Investments Japan Congress, May 25, 2010
• "Personal Information Protection Act of Japan",
  hosted by the Keiei Chousa Kenkyukai, November 19, 2009
• "Business Restructuring and Turnaround Strategies in Times of Economic Difficulty: the Sponsor's Perspective,"
  hosted by the Kinzai, September 9, 2009
• "Financial Products Transaction Law (Investment Services Law) and its influence on the practice of securitization," (in Japanese), hosted by Seminar-info., April 27, 2006