| Practice Areas |
| Banking Law, Securities and other Financial Services Laws and legal issues relating to Financial Transactions, M&A, Venture Capital/Private Equity Affairs and International Business Transactions. |
| Practice |
| Masaakira Kitazawa is a partner at Anderson Mori & Tomotsune, and specializes in the banking, securities and commercial fields for foreign and domestic clients. He has worked on financial regulatory matters, including corporate governance and compliance, and financial transactional matters, including acquisition and restructuring of corporate group entities as well as M&A transactions for domestic and foreign companies. He is also involved in private equity investment and securitization matters. Mr. Kitazawa was also involved in many IPO's and public offerings as well as listings on the Tokyo Stock Exchange. His projects and transactions have included the following: |
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Acting as the chief legal advisor to a temporarily nationalized Japanese bank, which was subsequently privatized. Provides ongoing advice to the subsequent entity relating to all aspects of its business, including government relations, banking, commercial transactions, acquisitions as well as general advice to management. |
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Advising a prestigious UK investment bank after it failed following unauthorized Asian future transactions. The work involved intense negotiations with Japan's financial authorities, stock exchange, and courts. |
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Advising a major US financial institution on all aspects of its operations in Japan, including its consumer finance subsidiaries, acquisitions of other companies, and all issues related to compliance with strict Japanese regulatory requirements. |
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Advising a major UK based venture capital and private equity entity in connection with its establishment and subsequent investment activities. |
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Securitizing real properties and other assets owned by solvent and insolvent insurance companies, on behalf of funds managed and administered by a major US investment bank. |
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Advising the UK Government, issuers and/or underwriters on secondary offerings in the privatization initiatives taken in the UK electricity, gas and water industries. |
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| Publications/Lectures |
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Lecture for the International Bar Association in Paris, "Exchange Traded Derivatives - The Risks for Users" (1995) |
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Lecture for Kyoto University, "Globalization and Financial Securities Law" (2002) |
| Education |
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Tokyo University (LL.B., 1976) |
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Harvard Law School (LL.M., 1981) |
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Trained at a law firm in the United States |
| Professional Admissions |
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Japan (1978) |
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New York (1982) |
| Professional and Academic Associations |
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Dai-ni Tokyo Bar Association |
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New York State Bar Association |
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American Bar Association |
| Languages |
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Japanese (first language) |
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English |
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