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.

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.

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.

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.

Hideyuki Sakai is an of counsel at Anderson Mori & Tomotsune and one of Japan's leading authorities in insolvency and financial restructuring. Prior to joining Anderson Mori & Tomotsune, he was managing partner of Bingham Sakai Mimura Aizawa, the joint enterprise established between Sakai & Mimura, which he founded in 1995, and a leading US law firm. Mr. Sakai focuses on bankruptcy, workouts, civil rehabilitation and other proceedings involving insolvency procedures. He frequently represents financial institutions and large creditor groups in complex debt restructurings and international insolvency matters. He has also served as court-appointed trustee in high-profile cases and as mediator in out-of-court ADR proceedings. Additionally, he has extensive experience in cross-border M&A, complex commercial litigation and crisis management.

Chieko Tsuchiya provides advice to both Japanese and international companies on cross-border insolvency matters, dispute resolutions, commercial transactions and employment law issues. She has also engaged in nuclear law related matters using her professional experience at the International Atomic Energy Agency. She has extensively worked on variety of international complex insolvency and civil cases that require coordination of multi-stakeholders’ interests and court proceedings in multiple jurisdictions. Chieko is an adjunct judge/mediator at the Tokyo Family Court and has acted as a mediator in Tokyo Bar Association.

Having handled mainly civil and administrative cases as a judge for more than 7 years, he is strong in litigation and other dispute resolution cases. He also has extensive experience in recent legal insolvency proceedings, having served as the chief judge in very large bankruptcy cases and civil rehabilitation cases in the 20th Civil Division of the Tokyo District Court, which is the center court for business rehabilitation and insolvency matters.