With the ability to accurately and efficiently assess the legal and financial risks involved in any given transaction, Anderson Mori & Tomotsune’s structured finance attorneys provide comprehensive advice on strategies for maximizing returns in a variety of tax-effective and innovative structures.

Being one of Japan’s leaders and innovators in establishing and structuring securitization and other structured finance transactions, our structured finance attorneys have represented underwriters and other arrangers, originators, issuers, trustees and investors in securitizations of numerous asset classes, including:

• Commercial Real Estate
• Consumer Finance Receivables
• Corporate Debt Obligations
• Equipment Lease Receivables
• Promissory Notes
• Residential Mortgages and Housing Loans
• Trade Receivables
• Cash flow from Business (Whole Business Securitization)

Anderson Mori & Tomotsune’s structured finance attorneys have had extensive experience in numerous Japanese and cross-border securitizations, real-estate finance, and other structured finance transactions, including the completion of a large number of private transactions, particularly in relation to the securitization of consumer finance receivables and on behalf of asset-backed CP conduits. Working with a number of investment banks and international investors in devising securitization structures for single-property, multi-property and conduit-type transactions, we offer a full range of expertise at every level of the transaction.

A representative selection of the type of work we specialize in includes:

• Securitization and asset liquidation
• Origination of assets, setting up trusts, and assignments of beneficial interests
• Tokumei-kumiai investments, non-recourse loans, various asset-backed securities, and securitization of collateralized debt obligations using credit derivatives
• Establishment and administration of SPVs
• Establishing and listing real property investment trusts and other related services
• Sale and purchase of loan assets and debt restructuring
• Asset management and services relating to liquidated or securitized assets
• Establishing funds in various forms
• Project financing and Private finance initiatives (PFI)