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Nishimura & Asahi Achieves Global Expansion and Highest Japan Rankings at IFLR1000 2024
Masashi is a partner on our capital markets team. He has over 10 years’ experience in this practice area, and formerly was seconded to a major financial institution. He also engages in insurance practice.
Since joining Nishimura & Asahi, Masashi has handled numerous deals relating to capital markets, including global IPO and PO deals, corporate debt transactions, euro convertible bond offerings, samurai bond offerings, listings of foreign companies on the Tokyo Stock Exchange, and third-party allotments. His abundant, practical experience, and prior secondment to a major financial institution, enable him to provide not only tailored legal advice and efficient support for a wide range of projects, but also specialized legal advice relating to the origination of projects with new features or structures. In addition to capital markets practice, Masashi actively represents clients in insurance transactions, including cross-border matters and those related to the Insurance Business Act; he is a member of our insurance team, and also engages in other financial regulation practice.
Awards & Rankings
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Nishimura & Asahi’s work on deals recognized at LSEG's DEALWATCH AWARDS 2023
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Refinitiv DEALWATCH AWARDS 2022
Publications
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The Insurance and Reinsurance Law Review - Twelfth Edition: Japan
Articles
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Getting the Deal Through - Initial Public Offerings 2025: Japan
Articles
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Establishment of Advisory Committee on Structural Issues and Competition in the P&C Insurance Industry
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2024: Insurance regulation in Asia Pacific - Ten things to know about 19 countries: Japan
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Article: FSA released Q&A on the applicability of the insurance business
Articles
News
Education
- 2019
- Vanderbilt University Law School (LL.M.)
- 2008
- Keio University Law School (J.D.)
- 2006
- The University of Tokyo (LL.B.)
Professional Experience
- Corporate Finance Dept., Products Business Division, Mizuho Securities Co., Ltd.,