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15 Lawyers Selected for Asia Business Law Journal’s The A-List: Japan’s Top 100 Lawyers 2024
Strength in creating new structures in the financial and capital markets, and in strategic advice that is not bound by legal framework against potential conflicts and crises in corporations.
Masaru Ono is a Former Representative Partner, and has been working to open up and develop new finance areas, such as by laying the groundwork for the introduction of securitization in Japan. Outside the finance sector, he also provides strategic advice on corporate crisis management, international disputes, and new projects that require the expertise and organizational strength of his practice groups, as well as on strategies that are not necessarily covered by conventional practices, precedents, or legal interpretations.
By acting as a bridge between the practical, academic, educational, and legislative fields, he played a major role in publishing the “CORPUS JURIS FINANCE” and establishing securitization in Japan. He also was called upon to provide his expert opinion as a witness before the Diet of Japan on the Trust Law and the Special Law on the Assignment of Claims. In addition, he has participated in the Legislative Council, Financial Council, etc., has lectured at Hitotsubashi University Law School, and has acted as a visiting professor at the University of Tokyo for more than a decade. "
Awards & Rankings
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Nishimura & Asahi Receives Top Rankings in Chambers Global 2024
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Nishimura & Asahi Highly Recognized by Who's Who Legal in 2023
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Nishimura & Asahi receives top rankings in Chambers Asia-Pacific 2024
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Nishimura & Asahi Achieves Global Expansion and Highest Japan Rankings at IFLR1000 2023
Publications
Education
- 1982
- The University of Michigan Law School (LL.M.)
- 1976
- The University of Tokyo (LL.B.)
Professional Experience
- External Advisor, Nishimura & Asahi (Gaikokuho Kyodo Jigyo)
- Audit & Supervisory Board Member, Prestige International Inc.
- Independent statutory auditor, Yokogawa Electric Corporation
- Trustee, Japan Association of Corporate Executives
- Independent director, DAIDO LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY
- Independent director, Mizuho Trust & Banking Co., Ltd.
- Independent director, Mizuho Securities Co., Ltd.
- Independent statutory auditor, The Higashi-Nippon Bank, Ltd
- Visiting Professor, University of Tokyo Graduate Schools for Law and Politics
- Visiting Professor, Institute of Business Law and Comparative Law and Politics (IBC), Graduate Schools for Law and Politics, The University of Tokyo
- Visiting Professor, Graduate School of Public Policy, The University of Tokyo
- Independent statutory auditor, Resona Bank, Ltd.
- Independent statutory auditor, The Daiwa Trust & Banking Co., Ltd.(Later Resona Trust & Banking Co., Ltd.)
- Expert Advisor on the proposed Perfection Law, Legal Affairs Committee of the House of Representatives
- Lecturer, Kyoto University Law School
- Lecturer, Hitotsubashi University School of Law
- Visiting Professor, Waseda Law School
- Lecturer, Graduate School of Law, Waseda University
- Expert Advisor on the proposed Perfection Law, Legal Affairs Committee of the House of Councillors
- Mudge Rose Guthrie Alexander & Ferdon, New York
- Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, Los Angeles