Takao Shojima has substantial experience in domestic and cross-border mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and alliances, corporate restructuring, takeover bits, company split, and private equity investments. Based on his experience in an Australian law firm when he mainly engaged in international transactions and cross-border investments, Takao advises Japanese clients expanding its business overseas and foreign clients entering into the Japanese market. Takao also deals with project finance and other financial transactions as well as energy and natural resources.

Kazuaki Tobioka is a partner at Anderson Mori & Tomotsune. His practice focuses on M&A and other corporate transactions. He has extensive experience in takeover bids, management buyouts and private equity investment.

Mr. Inoue is a partner of Anderson Mori & Tomotsune who has been involved primarily and has extensive experience in the field of leveraged finance, private equity, and structured finance. He has also been involved in turnaround transactions and debt restructuring for insolvent enterprises.

Koichi Miyamoto is a partner who has specialized expertise in providing advice on financial regulatory issues including the Financial Instruments and Exchange Act, Banking Act and Investment Trust Act. His professional experience also includes providing legal services and advice in relation to structuring, formation and marketing of domestic and foreign investment funds, including private equity funds, venture capital funds, mezzanine funds, real estate funds, infrastructure funds, as well as asset management, FinTech and various types of financial transactions. In addition to his professional experience at Anderson Mori & Tomotsune, he has also worked for the Securities and Exchange Surveillance Commission of Japan (from May 2008 to May 2010), where he was in charge of the inspection of financial instruments business operators.

Mr. Keita Tokura is a partner at Anderson Mori & Tomotsune with extensive experience in Corporate Governance, Mergers and Acquisitions and related financial transactions. He has been playing important roles in a number of public deals in Japan (including going private transactions and mergers of equals). He has a depth of knowledge and experience in M&As and investments in high-tech sector.

Raku specializes in the area of merger and acquisitions. He provides advice to foreign and domestic clients on the acquisition of companies in Japan as well as business integration and other corporate restructuring.

Kazuaki Nagai is a partner at Anderson Mori & Tomotsune, and has been principally involved in various finance matters such as M&A Finance, Mezzanine Finance, structured finance including securitization and PFI (private finance initiatives). Mr. Nagai also has experience in various fund matters including PE funds and corporate rehabilitation funds, bankruptcy related matters including business rehabilitation and filing of petition for bankruptcy related proceedings, and M&A matters such as reorganization including business transfer and mergers, and subscription and acquisitions of equities including classified shares, and other corporate financial transactions, and general commercial transactions. Mr. Nagai is further engaged in finance matters in relation to energy and natural resources.

Hiroki Kodate is a partner at Anderson Mori & Tomotsune and engaged principally in the fields of M&A and general corporate matters, and regularly advises both Japanese and non-Japanese clients in this regard. In addition to his professional experience at Anderson Mori & Tomotsune, Mr. Kodate worked for the Civil Affairs Bureau of the Ministry of Justice, where he was in charge of the legislative project to modernize Japanese corporate laws (2002-2005). He also worked for Slaughter and May in London as a foreign secondee (2000-2001). Mr. Kodate serves as a member of "Study Group on Fair Takeovers" of the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry of Japan to formulate the "Guidelines for Corporate Takeovers."

Noritaka Niwano is a partner at Anderson Mori & Tomotsune who assists both domestic and overseas clients in mergers and acquisitions and investment transactions. His scope of experience also includes both domestic and overseas matters such as corporate restructuring, general corporate, securities transactions and structured finance.

Ryo Kohdate has been engaged in a broad range of matters at Anderson Mori & Tomotsune since he joined the firm in 2003. He focuses on a variety of corporate matters such as issuance of securities in both the international and domestic capital markets, mergers and acquisitions, advice regarding financial regulations, securitization and other structured finance transactions and investment transactions.