Motohiro Yanagawa

Admitted to bar	1998, Japan
Languages	Japanese and English
Contact	Contact this Lawyer TEL : +81-3-6889-7183 FAX : +81-3-6889-8183
Practice Areas	Securitization/Structured Finance/Trust, Banking, Real Estate Investment/Real Estate Securitization, Real Estate Transactions, J-REITs, Asset Management/Fund, Project Finance, Acquisition Finance, Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A), Financial Regulations/Financial Compliance, Restructuring/Insolvency, General Corporate, Asia, Philippines, North America and Latin America

Biography

Motohiro Yanagawa is a partner of Nagashima Ohno & Tsunematsu. His practice focuses on financing transactions and corporate law, especially asset-based finance, project finance, structured finance, banking and international and domestic funds.

He graduated with an LL.B. from Waseda University in 1996 and with an LL.M. from Columbia Law School in 2002. He was admitted to practice law in Japan in 1998 and worked at Sidley Austin LLP in New York from 2002 to 2003.

Education/Professional Experience

1996	Waseda University (LL.B.)
1998-	Tsunematsu Yanase & Sekine (currently Nagashima Ohno & Tsunematsu)
2002	Columbia Law School (LL.M.)
2002-2003	Sidley Austin Brown & Wood LLP (currently Sidley Austin LLP), New York
2005-2006	Development Bank of Japan Inc.
2009-present	Partner, Nagashima Ohno & Tsunematsu

Seminars

May 28, 2009

Seminars

Impact of the Credit Crisis on Real Estate Securitizations in Japan

Publications

March, 2020	Articles	Lexology Getting the Deal Through - Structured Finance & Securitisation 2020 Japan (Co-author)
March, 2020	Articles	The Legal 500: 1st Edition Securitisation Country Comparative Guide - Japan (Co-author) The Legal 500 (online)
January, 2020	Articles	Chambers Global Practice Guides Securitisation 2020 Japan - Trends & Developments (Co-author)
March, 2019	Articles	Getting the Deal Through - Structured Finance & Securitisation 2019 Japan (co-author)
March, 2019	Articles	Chambers Global Practice Guides Securitisation 2019 Japan - Trends & Developments (co-author)
December, 2018	Articles	Chambers Global Practice Guides Structured Finance & Derivatives 2019 Japan - Law & Practice (co-author)
April, 2018	Articles	Getting the Deal Through - Structured Finance & Securitisation 2018 Japan (co-author)
March, 2017	Articles	Getting the Deal Through - Structured Finance & Securitisation 2017 Japan (co-author)
March, 2016	Articles	Getting the Deal Through - Structured Finance & Securitisation 2016 Japan (co-author)
March, 2015	Articles	Getting the Deal Through - Structured Finance & Securitisation 2015 Japan (co-author)
August, 2011	Articles	The Possibility of Using Securitization to Assist in the Reconstruction of Japan After The Great East Japan Earthquake (Co-author) Shojihoumu, No.1939
January, 2007	Articles	A New Law on Business Trust The Asialaw Japan Review, Volume 2 Issue 3, January 2007
January, 2007	Articles	Spotlight on business trusts The IFLR Guide to Japan 2007 (Supplement to International Financial Law Review, January 2007)

Topics

January 13, 2021	Awards	NO&T receives high evaluation in The Legal 500 Asia Pacific 2021
December 15, 2020	Awards	NO&T recognized by Chambers Asia-Pacific 2021
October 1, 2020	Awards	NO&T receives high evaluation in IFLR1000 30th edition
January 17, 2020	Awards	NO&T receives high evaluation in The Legal 500 Asia Pacific 2020
April 4, 2019	Awards	High evaluation received in the 2020 Edition of "The Best Lawyers in Japan"
April 6, 2018	Awards	High evaluation received in the 2019 Edition of "The Best Lawyers in Japan"
March 3, 2017	Awards	High evaluation received in the 2018 Edition of "The Best Lawyers in Japan"
February 29, 2016	Awards	High evaluation received in the 2017 Edition of "The Best Lawyers in Japan"
May 28, 2015	Awards	High evaluation received in the 2016 Edition of "The Best Lawyers in Japan"
October 17, 2014	Awards	High evaluation from Best Lawyers in the Fifth Edition of "The Best Lawyers in Japan"

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