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Nishimura & Asahi Receives Outstanding Results in Legal 500 Asia Pacific 2025
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Yuri SUGANO
Yuri is a partner in our Restructuring and Insolvency team and also the co-head of our Labour Law Practice team. With over 20 year’s experience, she has extensive expertise in complex cross-border restructuring and insolvency cases. She also has plenty of experience supporting foreign clients on Japanese labor issues.
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.
Representative Work
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- 2024.1
- Mitsui Matsushima Holdings Co., Ltd. - Acquisition of Saunders & Associates, LLC through Sansei Denshi Co., Ltd.
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- 2021
- Ungaiso Co. Ltd. - Acquisition of International School of Creative Arts Ltd.
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- 2019
- Kacific - launch of a communications satellite
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- 2018
- Nishimura & Asahi secures victory for creditors in Mt. Gox bankruptcy
Awards & Rankings
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Nishimura & Asahi Receives Top Rankings in Chambers Asia-Pacific 2025
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Outstanding Results for Nishimura & Asahi at the Legal 500 Asia Pacific 2024
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Asia Woman of the Year in Restructuring: IWIRC Women of the Year Asia Award 2023
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Restructuring & Insolvency Lawyer of the Year: Women in Business Law Awards Asia-Pacific 2023
Seminars
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From Build-Up to Breakdown: Navigating Construction Company and Real Estate Distress
Seoul
External Seminars
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Recovery, Valuation and Realisation of Digital Assets
Singapore
External Seminars
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IADConnects in Tokyo
Tokyo
External Seminars
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International Construction Projects + Insolvency
Tokyo
External Seminars
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LSEG DEI promotion seminar Creating a workplace where a diverse people can thrive - How to tackle LGBTQ＋ issues
Tokyo
External Seminars
Publications
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Restructuring Practices in the U.S., Europe, and Singapore
Books
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MSMEs - PRACTICAL CHALLENGES AND RISK MITIGATION POST COVID-19
Articles
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International Survey on Marriage Equality 2021
Articles
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Overview of the Current Legal Situation Regarding Diversity & Inclusion (4th)
Articles
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Overview of the Current Legal Situation Regarding Diversity & Inclusion in Japan - Part 3
Articles
News
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- DE&I Lunch Session in Collaboration With Airbnb (for N&A members)
- Media
- Vlog Series - Women at the forefront of Restructuring & Insolvency in Asia
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- The 75th Japan-America Student Conference - Tokyo site Pride Program
- Media
- Ryutaro Nakayama and Yuri Sugano were interviewed at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2023 (Davos)
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- Doing Business 2020: Resolving Insolvency in Japan
Education
- 2012
- New York University School of Law (LL.M.)
- 2001
- Kyoto University (LL.B.)
Professional Experience
- Ordinary councilor of Japanese Association of Turnaround Professionals
- Director, MUFG Strategic Investment, Ltd.
- Member of the Independent Committee of Japan Sport Council
- Asian Advisory Council, INSOL International
- External Director, Mitsui Matsushima Holdings Co., Ltd.
- Outside Director, LMI GROUP Inc.
- GCA Corporation (currently Houlihan Lokey)
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