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Ko Fujita tel: 81-3-5223-7727
fax: 81-3-5223-7627




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Professional Qualifications & Activities
admitted in Japan, 1990; New York, 1994
Daini-Tokyo Bar Association
New York State Bar Association
Inter-Pacific Bar Association
Licensing Executives Society Japan
Lecturer in the summer program held by Duke University School of Law and the University of Hong Kong Faculty of Law ("Securitization in Japan"; 1997)
Lecturer in the Master of Applied Finance Course, Macquarie University ("Securities and Exchange Law of Japan", 1997; "Securities Regulations and M&A Transactions in Japan", 1999)
Member of Committee for Research and Study of Intellectual Property in the Context of Corporate Restructurings (Institute of Intellectual Property; 2001-2002)
Member of Committee for Research on Legal Framework for M&A (Mergers and Acquisitions Forum of Japan; 2006)
Lecturer of Tohoku University Law School (2006-)


Education & Prior Experience
The University of Tokyo (LL.B. 1988)
New York University School of Law (LL.M. 1993)
with Kaye, Scholer, Fierman, Hays & Handler, New York (1993-1994)
with Johnson Stokes & Master, Hong Kong (1994)


Publications
"Practical Manual for the Financial Instruments and Exchange Law" GYOSEI Corporation, 2008 (Co-Author)
"Strategic M&A and the Management of Business Merger" Business Research Institute, March 2008 (Co-Author)
"Why doesn't Hostile Takeover never result in a good outcome in Japan?" Economy Society Policy, ECONOMIC PLANNING ASSOCIATION, November 2007
"Legal Advice on Agreement of Intellectual Property Licensing" Seirin Shoin April, 2007
"Legal Counseling regarding Intellectual Property Licenses" Seirin Shoin, 2007
"Things that Unlisted Company Should Keep in Mind in an M&A Transaction," M&A Review, Vol.20 No.5, September 2006
"Issues in Fundamental Directives of Corporation Tax Law (3rd Supplemented Ed)," Editorial Committee, 2004
"M&A Documentary―A Business Auction," 2004
"M&A in Japan in a Rapidly Changing Corporate Law Environment" 2001
"The Importance of SEC No-Action Letters in Securities Practice" 2001
"SEC No-Action Letters" 2000
"Securitizaion of Bank Loan Receivables" 1998
"Consumption Tax Imposed on International Factoring Business" 1997
"Taxation of Non-Resident Manufacturer without Permanent Establishment in Japan" 1997
"Taxation of Income out of Commodity Futures Transaction" 1996


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