Masaki Fujita is a partner at Anderson Mori & Tomotsune, based in Tokyo. He specializes in Restructuring & Insolvency, International Trade, National Security, M&A, and Joint Ventures. Masaki has extensive experience in restructuring and insolvency, skillfully representing a wide range of stakeholders—including debtors, creditors, and sponsors—across both court-supervised and private restructuring processes. His expertise is particularly pronounced in cross-border and global insolvency matters, where he combines legal acumen with a strategic perspective to resolve complex, multi-jurisdictional challenges. As an INSOL Fellow and a member of the International Insolvency Institute (III) NextGen, Masaki is recognized internationally for his advanced knowledge and practical insights in this field. In the area of national security and international trade, Masaki provides comprehensive advice on diverse regulatory issues, such as export and import controls, economic sanctions, and security clearances. He has substantial expertise in Japan’s Foreign Exchange and Foreign Trade Act (FEFTA), particularly in advising foreign investors on acquisitions of Japanese companies, corporate bonds, and monetary lending transactions. Masaki also assists clients in obtaining regulatory clearances and responding to investigations by the authorities. Additionally, his work spans critical areas such as supply chain risk assessments, sensitive technology management, and the development of tailored compliance frameworks for multinational enterprises. Masaki also advises foreign companies on navigating Japan’s complex legal and business landscapes. He offers strategic counsel on market entry and exit, addressing commercial, corporate, and employment law matters with a nuanced understanding of Japanese business culture. His insights are enhanced by his tenure as a secondee at the legal department of one of Japan’s largest trading companies, where he gained invaluable experience managing cross-border operations and regulatory challenges. Serving clients across a broad spectrum of industries—including banking, fintech, energy, semiconductors, chemicals, pharmaceuticals, life sciences, IT, logistics, hospitality, food, fashion, and agriculture—Masaki delivers integrated, pragmatic solutions tailored to each client’s unique needs.

Hiroki Sekibata focuses his practice on insolvency and restructuring matters. He has extensive experience advising clients in relation to corporate rehabilitations and restructurings, M&A, and corporate compliance. He also has experience in civil litigation as well as general civil law matters.

Kanako Watanabe is working for various corporate matters in Japan and overseas with a focus on domestic and cross-border restructuring and insolvency cases, corporate and commercial transactions and M&A cases. She is also well experienced in government investigations and crisis management cases.

Yukari Murayama advises clients on various legal aspects of corporate activities, ranging from M&As, establishment of a joint venture and contract negotiation, to day-to-day issues. In the area of business restructuring and insolvency, she has worked on all forms of restructuring and insolvency proceedings, including corporate reorganization, civil rehabilitation, bankruptcy and out-of-court workouts. Ms Murayama spent two years in the Supervisory Coordination Division of the Financial Services Agency, where she was involved in the supervision of non-bank financial institutions.

Counsel to numerous debtors, creditors, creditors’ committees and equity holders for more than three decades in cases involving a wide spectrum of industries including banking, retail, real estate, construction, housing, golf resort, hotel, manufacturing, and cross-border enterprises. In recent years, served as liquidator in some of the largest bankruptcy cases in Japan. Practice also includes dispute resolution, commercial litigation, mergers and acquisitions, intellectual property and labor issues. Frequently speaks on legal topics pertaining to insolvency and bankruptcy and has written expensively on the Corporate Reorganization Act, the Civil Rehabilitation Act and the Bankruptcy Act of Japan. Recognized as a leading restructuring and insolvency lawyer in Japan by Chambers Asia Pacific.

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.

Hikaru Naganuma is a partner at Anderson Mori & Tomotsune who has been engaged in an extensive range of corporate matters, with an emphasis on securitization of real properties and receivables, project finance, syndicated loans, real estate transactions and M&A transactions. He has also assisted both domestic and overseas clients in a variety of cross-border transactions in the areas of real estate investment, banking and corporate acquisitions.

Sayuri Tago specializes in complex restructuring and insolvency/bankruptcy and mergers and acquisitions, with a focus on cross-border matters. She regularly represents not only debtors, but also creditors, sponsors, as well as other distressed investors, relating to both in- and out-of-court restructurings.

Keisuke Suzuki provides advice on a wide range of transactions in energy and natural resources, project finance, PFI, and corporate restructuring. In addition, taking advantage of his experience in dispatching to Japanese Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI), he has provided numerous practical, transaction focused advices to domestic and international clients on renewable energy projects, including onshore and offshore wind, corporate PPAs and VPPAs, and BESS projects.