Katsuo Yagura

Mr. Katsuo Yagura is an associate Anderson Mori & Tomotsune who has been involved with a various types of general corporate matters and financial regulatory issues with a focus on Financial Instruments and Exchange Law.　He also has an extensive experience in advising clients in relation to M&As in China, Japanese companies' direct investment into China, and other general corporate matters involving operations of Japanese companies' local offices in China (including issues concerning Labor Contract Law),

・Corporate Transaction Group
・Financial Services & Transactions
・Structured Finance
・China Practice

The University of Tokyo (LL.B., 1997); The Legal Training and Research Institute of the Supreme Court of Japan, 1999-2000; graduate study, UCLA (University of California, Los Angeles, LL.M., 2005); Chinese language training, Fudan University, September 2006 - January 2007. Associated with Holland & Knight LLP, Los Angeles, September 2005; Washington, D.C., October 2005 - January 2006; New York February 2006 - July 2006; King & Wood, Beijing, February 2007- July 2007; Anderson Mori & Tomotsune Beijing Office, August 2007. 

・Japan (2000)
・New York (2009)

・Seconded to the Multilateral Trade System Department of the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (January 2009-).
・Voluntarily deregistered from the Japan Federation of Bar Associations roll of attorneys (February 2009 -).

・Japanese (first language)
・English
・Chinese (Mandarin)