Tatsu Katayama
Partner- 03-6888-1042
- 03-6888-3042
Practice Areas
Practice
Tatsu Katayama is a partner at Anderson Mori & Tomotsune, whose areas of expertise are international banking, finance and securities matters on behalf of foreign clients. Our firm is regularly mentioned by legal periodicals, such as Chambers International and Euromoney, as one of the leading Japanese firms in regard to banking and finance and capital markets matters, and Mr. Katayama has been individually named as a leading lawyer in Japan in such areas. Mr. Katayama has particular expertise in securitization and the monetizing of assets including trade receivables, and is experienced in both the structuring of cross-border transactions in light of Japanese regulations and laws, as well as the intricacies of perfecting assignments of monetized assets where the obligors are located outside of Japan. Mr. Katayama often works together with overseas legal counsel on finance matters and is well accustomed to meeting the needs of overseas clients as well as foreign-subsidiary domestic clients.
Practice Groups
・Structured Finance
Publications/Lectures
| ・ | "Basis for Financial Contract in English," lectured at a seminar sponsored by the Financial Management Forums, Inc. (December 2011) |
| ・ | "2011 Amendment of Asset Liquidation Law - in Consideration of Proposed Cabinet Order and Cabinet Office Regulation," lectured at a seminar sponsored by the Financial Management Forums, Inc. (September 2011) |
| ・ | "Toughening up," (IFLR June 2011) (co-author) |
| ・ | "Legal Practice of TMK and 2011 Amendment of Asset Liquidation Law," lectured at a seminar sponsored by the Financial Management Forums, Inc. (June 2011) |
| ・ | Participated as a speaker in the "Understanding Collateral Arrangements and the ISDA Credit Support Documents Conference," （International Swaps and Derivatives Associations, 2011) |
| ・ | Participated as a speaker in the "Globalization in Law and Legal Education ~mainly focusing on International Legal Studies~," （Science Council of Japan, Legal Committee "Globalization and Law", 2011) |
| ・ | "Japan's Amended Commodity Derivatives Act - New Regulations Regarding Commodity Derivatives Business in Japan -," (Futures & Derivatives Law Report, December 2010) (co-author) |
| ・ | Participated as a co-chair in the "2nd Asia Pacific Regional Forum Conference and Bar Leaders day - Asia after the GFC - leading the global recovery," （Section of Transaction and Corporate Law , IBA (International Bar Association), 2010) |
| ・ | "Legal practice of TMK in recession," lectured at a seminar sponsored by the Financial Management Forums, Inc. (November 2010) |
| ・ | "Commodity derivatives changed forever," (IFLR July/August 2010 ) (co-author) |
| ・ | "Amendments to Japan's FSA Guidelines for the marketing of derivative transactions," （The Euromoney Derivatives & Risk Management Handbook 2010/11) (co-author) |
| ・ | IREX ASIA 2008, participated as a panelist in "Keeping the Global Capital Markets Safe Yet Competitive: the Role of Lawyers, Regulators and Judges" （Section of International Law, ABA (American Bar Association), 2008) |
| ・ | "FATF Recommendations and Mutual Evaluation - Challanges for the Bar Association," Liberty & Justice, Vol. 58, No. 9 (September 2007) (co-author) |
| ・ | "Japan Chapter" (European Lawyer Reference 2005/2006 Conflicts of Interest) (October 2005) |
| ・ | "Amendment to the Gaiben Law - Issues for New Partnership," Liberty & Justice, Vol. 55, No. 3 (March, 2004) |
| ・ | Regularly lectures on Securitization/Derivatives issues for various financial institutions |
Education
・Tokyo University (LL.B., 1985)
・University of Pennsylvania (LL.M., 1991)
・Trained at a law firm in Australia
・University of Pennsylvania (LL.M., 1991)
・Trained at a law firm in Australia
Professional Admissions
・Japan (1987)
・New York (1992)
・New York (1992)
Professional and Academic Associations
・Dai-ni Tokyo Bar Association
Languages
・Japanese (first language)
・English
・English
