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Akiko Kimura

Akiko Kimura

Of Counsel
TEL:
81-3-6775-1007
FAX:
81-3-6775-2007

Akiko Kimura is an of counsel principally handling international finance matters, mergers and acquisitions, and general corporate affairs. She has been involved in a wide range of public offerings and private placements of shares, bonds and other securities by Japanese companies overseas, and by supranational organizations, foreign governments and foreign private entities in Japan. She has also acted as legal advisor in connection with the privatization of foreign and Japanese governmental institutions, as well as initial public offerings by foreign and Japanese companies. She has been involved in the demutualization of a Japanese life insurance company and in the acquisition by a Japanese company of a foreign company through exchange of shares, each of which was the first of transaction of its kind in Japan. She also handles a wide variety of corporate transactions, such as mergers and acquisitions, partnerships, joint ventures and licensing arrangements.

Kimura Akiko

Practice Areas

Practice Groups

  • Corporate Transaction Group
  • Capital Markets Group

Background

Mar 1971 Kyoto University (LL.B.)
Apr 1971 - Apr 1973 The Legal Training and Research Institute of the Supreme Court of Japan
Apr 1973 Joined Nishimura Komatsu & Tomotsune (currently Anderson Mori & Tomotsune)
Jan 1977 Partner of Nishimura Komatsu & Tomotsune (currently Anderson Mori & Tomotsune)
Jun 1978 Harvard Law School (LL.M.)
Jan 1979 - Aug 1979 Associated with Cravath, Swaine & Moore, New York
Oct 1997 - Dec 2000 Member of the Council on Foreign Exchange and Other Transactions of the Ministry of Finance of Japan
Jan 2001 - Dec 2006 Member of the Council on Customs Duties, Foreign Exchange and Other Transactions of the Ministry of Finance of Japan
Aug 2010 - Member of the Study Group to Vitalize the Corporate Bond Market, as sponsored by the Securities Dealers Association of Japan
Jan 2011 Of-Counsel of Anderson Mori & Tomotsune
Apr 2011 - Jan 2016 Member of the Medical Ethics Committee and the Clinical Research Committee of Tokyo Yamate Medical Center
Jun 2012 - Aug 2020 Member of the Audit and Supervisory Board (Outside) of Fuji Electric Co., Ltd.
Apr 2013 - Mar 2019 Member of the Certified Public Accountants and Auditing Oversight Board of the Financial Services Agency of Japan
Jun 2014 - Jun 2018 Member of the Audit and Supervisory Board (Outside) of Daiichi Sankyo Company, Limited
Jun 2015 - Member of the Board of Directors (Outside) of Nomura Asset Management Co., Ltd.

Publications

Achievements

Professional Admissions

  • Japan (1973)

Professional and Academic Associations

  • Dai-ichi Tokyo Bar Association

Languages

  • Japanese (first language)
  • English