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Asia Woman of the Year in Restructuring: IWIRC Women of the Year Asia Award 2023
We are pleased to announce that Yuri Sugano was recognized as Asia Woman of the Year in Restructuring at the IWIRC Women of the Year Asia Award 2023, presented by the International Women's Insolvency and Restructuring Confederation (IWIRC) and held at AP Tokyo Marunouchi on Sept. 14, 2023 during the INSOL Tokyo 2023.
Yuri is specialized in Restructuring and Insolvency and also Labor Law. Especially, she is well-known in the restructuring market given her outstanding expertise and experience in cross-border restructuring and insolvency cases. She has plenty of experience providing foreign clients with restructuring and business closure of their Japanese subsidiaries. She also supports foreign clients on a wide range of labor issues, including labor disputes, personnel restructuring and general labor law matters on a daily basis. She is actively engaged in diversity and inclusion promotion activities. Utilizing her expertise as a labor-law specialist, as well as her experience as a member of the DE&I Promotion Committee at Nishimura & Asahi and as a director of LLAN (lawyers for LGBT & Allies Network), she has supported clients’ D&I initiatives.