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Kenichi Masuda

Kenichi Masuda

TEL:
81-3-6775-1026
FAX:
81-3-6775-2026

Kenichi Masuda has represented many local and foreign clients in a broad spectrum of businesses and industries. He has extensive experience in advising foreign clients and is familiar with cross-border issues. In particular, he regularly advises clients on mergers and acquisitions of listed and unlisted businesses (including, but not limited to, share acquisitions and divestments and business acquisitions and divestments for foreign clients where the target is a Japanese company or business), joint ventures and other cross-border investments, and corporate restructurings. His scope of experience also includes assisting and representing venture companies in various aspects including start-up, equity finance and initial public offerings, as well as establishing venture capital or other private equity funds, advising venture or other private equity funds on investments in Japanese businesses including high-tech businesses as well as distressed companies. He regularly provides legal services on employment and labor union relations (including representation of client companies at the court and other dispute resolution forum), real property transactions, intellectual property issues, general corporate matters (including corporate governance and compliance issues for listed companies) and commercial matters.

Mr. Masuda served as a Committee Member for two committees organized by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry for the purpose of stimulating venture business and investments into the venture business in Japan: the Committee for Improving the Business Environment for Private Equity Finance in Japan in 2000, which developed proposals for revisions to the Japanese corporate law, and the Committee for Examining Desirable Disclosure Systems of the Venture Business in Japan in 2001, which developed proposals for revisions to the Japanese Securities Exchange Law.

Mr. Masuda also taught M&A as an adjunct lecturer at the Graduate School for Law and Politics of The University of Tokyo (2011-2013, 2014-2016).

Masuda Kenichi

Practice Groups

  • Corporate Transactions
  • Labor Law

Background

1986 The University of Tokyo (LL.B.)
1992 University of Chicago (LL.M.)
1992 - 1994 Trained at law firms in the United States
2019 - 2022 Visiting Professor, Graduate School of Law, The University of Tokyo

Publications

Lectures

Achievements

Sep 14, 2023
Jul 27, 2023
Apr 14, 2022
Apr 15, 2021
Oct 11, 2013
Oct 31, 2012
Jul 17, 2012
Oct 17, 2011
Sep 14, 2010

Professional Admissions

  • Japan (1988)
  • New York (1993)

Professional and Academic Associations

  • Daini Tokyo Bar Association

Languages

  • Japanese (first language)
  • English