ORIX Real Estate Investment Advisors Corporation: Formation of a Blind Pool - Type Real Estate Fund
Nishimura & Asahi advised ORIX Real Estate Investment Advisors Corporation on the formation of ORIA Japan Real Estate Value Add Fund I Investment LP, a blind pool-type real estate fund.
The team was led by partners Hiroshi Niinomi, Yoshiharu Kawamata, Masato Kariya, and Tatsuya Takazoe, supported by associate Atsuo Kyoto.
People
Masato has been involved in many structured finance projects and REIT (Real Estate Investment Corporation) related transactions. With over 15 years of extensive experience in real estate finance, he provides, even in complicated and large-scale transactions and development projects, prompt and needs-based advice to clients, regardless of their position, such as sponsors, developers and financial institutions, and with regard to various type of assets, including hotels and data centers as well as conventional assets such as office, residential, retail, and logistics projects. He also has extensive experience in advising on financial regulations, especially related to structured finance and REITs.
He has extensive experience in the establishment of Japanese and foreign investment funds, including PE funds, venture funds, renewable energy funds, real estate funds, mezzanine funds, and funds of funds. The types of fund structures on which he has advised include funds whose GPs themselves are also partnerships, parallel fund structures, funds whose fund managers are joint ventures, and funds with more than two GPs. Also, he has assisted many investors (including financial institutions, business companies, and funds of funds) with investing in funds. Recently, he has been representing investors in approximately 20 to 40 investment funds on an annual basis.
Yoshiharu has extensive experience in various areas of international and domestic investment fundraising, including private equity, venture capital, mezzanine, infrastructure, real estate, and commodity funds, and is regularly consulted by top-ranked US and UK law firms for advice on Japanese regulatory matters. He frequently advises financial institutions and major companies, including banks, insurance companies, and private/government pension funds on their investments in international and domestic alternative funds in a timely and flexible manner. He also worked at the New York office of a Japanese mega bank (MUFG Bank) as a secondee, and has expertise in compliance-related matters relating to financial institutions.