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The Legal 500: Real Estate Comparative Guide

Hiroshi Niinomi, Nathan G. Schmidt, Koki Hara, Naoto Yamamoto and Suguru Kuroda co-authored the Japan chapter of The Legal 500: Real Estate Comparative Guide (3rd edition), published by Legalease Ltd.

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ネイサン・シュミット

He represents clients engaged in a broad range of banking and finance matters, including real estate financing facilities, leveraged financing transactions, restructurings, project financing facilities and structured finance transactions. He also has expertise in representing foreign and domestic investors, funds, and corporate entities in various types of matters, including joint ventures, mergers, acquisitions, and investment transactions. In recent years, he has also represented clients engaged in many solar PV projects and other renewable energy projects.

原 光毅

Koki is a seasoned expert on a wide range of real-estate transactions (including securitization of real estate) with diversified clients, such as banks, developers, and asset management companies. His coverage includes cross-border real-estate finance, project finance and other finance transactions. Also, he is specialized in REIT, and financial regulatory matters including banking, and asset management.

山本 直人

Naoto has expertise in medium-to-large-scale domestic and cross-border real estate securitization transactions facilitating TMK and TK-GK structures for various types of assets including offices, residential properties, logistics, shopping complexes, hotels, data centers, and detached housing. He regularly supports projects and transactions concerning real estate matters for a range of clients such as financial institutions, investors, asset managers, general contractors, developers, etc. He also supports domestic and cross-border financial deals, based on his experience in being seconded to the head offices and key overseas branches of major financial institutions.