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Broad experience in providing support for the restructuring and rehabilitation of businesses

The success of our sizable insolvency practice is a result of our broad experience in representing different parties in bankruptcy disputes and claim collection activities. We act on behalf of debtors, creditors, and financial advisers, in all types of Japanese bankruptcy and reorganization proceedings, out-of-court workouts, and pre-packaged reorganizations involving listed companies and small and medium-sized enterprises. Our lawyers also serve as administrative receivers and trustees in bankruptcy proceedings.

We draw upon the expertise of our corporate, M&A, and finance practices in increasingly complex insolvency cases. We are consistently retained in pioneering transactions that involve a variety of corporate, M&A, and financing techniques in conjunction with insolvency proceedings, including corporate demergers, securitizations, debtor-in-possession financings, asset-backed lending, debt-equity swaps, and debtor-in-possession related corporate reorganizations. The depth and breadth of our practice enable us to provide a comprehensive range of services in transactions and proceedings involving financially distressed companies.

We also serve as a one-stop law firm for international insolvency and restructuring cases by working in close collaboration with major overseas law firms.

Bankruptcy/Restructuring：People

Bankruptcy/Restructuring：Newsletters

Mar. 17, 2023 Restructuring & Insolvency Newsletter: Rescue Financing in Japanese Restructuring Proceedings
Feb. 15, 2023 Restructuring & Insolvency Newsletter: Sponsor/Investment Process in Japanese Restructuring
Jan. 13, 2023 Restructuring & Insolvency Newsletter: FTX Chapter 11 from Japanese Law Perspective (2)
Dec. 28, 2022 Restructuring & Insolvency Newsletter: FTX Chapter 11 from Japanese Law Perspective (1)
Dec. 6, 2022 Restructuring & Insolvency Newsletter: The first case in Japanese history where the debtor used simplified rehabilitation proceedings as a tool to “cram down” minority lenders

Bankruptcy/Restructuring：News

May 4, 2023Awards: Firm receives award at FT Innovative Lawyers Asia-Pacific Awards 2023 for “Innovative Lawyers in Restructuring” and highly commended in other categories
Apr. 20, 2023Awards: The Best Lawyers in Japan™ and Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch in Japan™ (2024 edition)
Mar. 31, 2023Public Service: Report released by the “Study Group on Finance and Restructuring Practice Utilizing All Asset Security” on an investigation commissioned by the Financial Services Agency in which one of the firm’s attorneys-at-law was involved
Jan. 11, 2023Awards: Top Rankings Received from The Legal 500 Asia Pacific 2023
Dec. 15, 2022Awards: Top Rankings Received from Chambers Asia-Pacific 2023

Bankruptcy/Restructuring：Seminars

Jan. 24, 2018External Seminars: "The reform of the Japanese FSA and challenges for financial institutions"
Nov. 28, 2017External Seminars: "The reform of the Japanese FSA and challenges for lending business (Osaka)"
Nov. 27, 2017External Seminars: "The reform of the Japanese FSA and challenges for lending business (Tokyo)"
Oct. 25, 2017External Seminars: "Recent developments in financial administration and challenges for compliance"
Jul. 24, 2017External Seminars: "The frontline of financial monitoring"

Bankruptcy/Restructuring：Publications

Magazine Article: "Mycal Supermarkets Securitization – True Sale Character Protected despite Attack by Receiver under Corporate Reorganization"
Magazine Article: "The First Case in Japan that was Transferred from Business Revitalization ADR to Simplified Rehabilitation Proceedings"
Magazine Article: "Practical Utilization of Business Revitalization Guidelines for Small and Medium-Sized Companies Examined Based on Successful Cases"
Magazine Article: "Enterprise Mortgage in the Context of Amendment of Laws on Secured Transactions"
Book: ”Comprehensive Analysis of M&A Laws of Japan, 2nd edition”