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Kanako Watanabe

Kanako Watanabe

TEL:
81-3-6775-1196
FAX:
81-3-6775-2196

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.

Watanabe Kanako

Practice Areas

Practice Groups

  • ・Financial Restructuring & Insolvency Group
  • ・Corporate Transaction Group
  • ・Corporate Crisis Management Practice Group
  • ・Financial Services & Transactions Group

Background

Mar 2004 Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo, Japan (Bachelor of Social Sciences)
Mar 2007 Hitotsubashi University, Graduate School of Law (Juris Doctor)
2007 - 2008 The Legal Training and Research Institute of the Supreme Court of Japan
Apr 2015 Graduate study, University of Virginia (LL.M.)
Oct 2016 - Jun 2017 Associated with Mayer Brown LLP, New York

Publications

Restructuring & Insolvency Laws & Regulations Japan 2024 International Comparative Legal Guide - Restructuring & Insolvency 2024
Apr 2024
Restructuring & Insolvency Laws & Regulations Japan 2023 International Comparative Legal Guide - Restructuring & Insolvency 2023
May 2023
Key Developments and Latest Trends in Japan The International Insolvency & Restructuring Review 2023/24
May 2023
Practical tips for the withdrawal of foreign companies from Japan Turnaround & Credit Management No.177 (Summer issue 2022)
Jul 2022
Key Developments and Latest Trends in Japan The International Insolvency & Restructuring Review 2022/23
Apr 2022
Jun 2018
Oct 2016
Feb 2013

Lectures

Achievements

Professional Admissions

  • Japan (2008)

Professional and Academic Associations

  • Tokyo Bar Association

Languages

  • Japanese (first language)
  • English