Ryu Umezu

Key Practice Areas
Capital Markets　 Banking　 Financial Regulation　 Asset Management and Investment Funds　 Structured Finance 　 Real Estate Transactions　 Real Estate Investment/Securitization　 Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs)　 Related Practice Areas
Private Equity　 Derivatives　 Insurance　 Bankruptcy and Insolvency /Restructuring　 China　

Mr. Umezu specializes in finance, securities and capital market transactions, opportunity investments (including corporate, business and real property acquisitions), investment funds and regulatory matters for financial institutions and investment funds. As a capital markets specialist, Mr. Umezu has advised a number of IPOs and listings, including the listing of MediciNova, Inc. (Osaka Securities Exchange Hercules) and China Boqi (Tokyo Stock Exchange 1st Section). Mr. Umezu has also advised a number of public offering in Japan without listing, including the public offering of the following issuers;

Telstra Corporation Limited
Chunghwa Telecom Co., Ltd
Shanghai Electric Group Company Limited
Bank of Communications
China Construction Bank Corporation
Industrial and Commercial Bank of China Limited
Bank of China Limited
China Merchants Bank Co., Ltd.
Air China Limited
Ping An Insurance (Group) Company of China, Ltd.
China Cosco Holdings Company Limited
Chi Mei Optoelectronics Corporation
Hopewell Highwai Infrastructure Limited
The Link Real Estate Investment Trust

Mr. Umezu advised a number of debt offerings in Japan including the public offering of debt securities by IBM Corporation, National Australia Bank, Rabobank Nederland and JPMorgan Chase & Co.

・Japanese (first language)
・English