Wataru Higuchi
Wataru Higuchi

Partner

Tokyo
Key Practice Areas
Capital Markets
Asset Management and Investment Funds
Real Estate Finance
Project Finance
Financial Regulation
TEL:81-3-6775-1142
/FAX:81-3-6775-2142
Wataru Higuchi has been involved in a wide range of finance transactions including asset based finance, syndicated loan, securitization, capital markets and fund business. Mr. Higuchi also has expertise in the fields of financial regulatory issues. In addition to his professional experience at Anderson Mori & Tomotsune, Mr. Higuchi has also worked for Tokyo Stock Exchange (from October 2012 – September 2013) as a secondee, where he was in charge of listings of both Japanese and non-Japanese companies, ETFs, and J-REITs.
SERVICES
Practice Areas
Industries
Securities
Banks
Trust
Asset Management
Other Finance Industries
Energy and Natural Resources
CAREER
Mar 2002
Hitotsubashi University (LL.B.)
Apr 2004 - Oct 2005
The Legal Training and Research Institute of the Supreme Court of Japan
May 2011
Columbia Law School (LL.M.)
Aug 2011 - Jul 2012
Associated with Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP, New York
Apr 2020 - Mar 2022
Part-time Lecturer, The Business Law Department of Hitotsubashi University Graduate School of Law (HBL)
QUALIFICATIONS
Japan (2005)
New York (2012)
PROFESSIONAL AND
ACADEMIC ASSOCIATION
Daini Tokyo Bar Association
New York State Bar Association
LANGUAGES
Japanese (first language)
English
Wataru Higuchi
Wataru Higuchi
TEL:81-3-6775-1142
/FAX:81-3-6775-2142
Capital Markets
Asset Management and Investment Funds
Real Estate Finance
Project Finance
Financial Regulation