Akihiro Shiba
FinTech Guide 2024
Band 2 : FinTech Legal
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About
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Practice Areas
FinTech, Structured Finance/Securitization, Banking, Financial Regulations/Compliance, Asset Management/Funds
Career
Partner, Nishimura & Asahi; Lecturer, Tohoku University Law School (2021); Assistant Vice President, MUFG Bank, Ltd, Singapore Branch (2017-2018); Deputy Director, Planning and Coordination Bureau, Financial Services Agency of Japan (2011-2014).
Professional Memberships
Admitted: Japan (2007); New York (2018)
Publications
“Major Legal Regimes Related to the Utilization of Tokens in the Content Industry” Japan Business Law Review, Vol. 23, No. 9 (2023) [in Japanese]; “Consideration on Lending-based Crowdfunding (Social Lending) Regulations,” Financial Law Journal, No. 2187 (2022) [in Japanese]; Securitization of Assets and Receivables, Kinzai Institute for Financial Affairs, 4th ed. (2022) [in Japanese], “Japan Chapter,” in The Real Estate Law Review - Eleventh Edition, Law Business Research (2022); Q&A Financial Service Intermediary Business, Kinzai Institute for Financial Affairs (2021) [in Japanese]; “Legal Relationship and Practice of Transfer and Other Disposition of Crypto-Assets,” The Financial and Business Law Precedents, No. 1611 (Extra Number) (2021) [in Japanese]; 50 Q&As on Compliance for Financial Institutions, Kinzai Institute for Financial Affairs (2021) [in Japanese]; “The Pandemic and Lending Financial Institutions,” Jurist No. 1551 (2020); Financial and Capital Markets and Public Policy: Evolving Technology and Governance, Kinzai Institute for Financial Affairs (2020) [in Japanese]; “Introduction to Token Business and Law (1) - (6),” Japan Business Law Review, Vol. 19, No. 12 and Vol. 20, Nos. 1 and 3-6 (2019 and 2020) [in Japanese]; “Treatment of Crypto-Assets under Private Law,” Commercial Law Review, No.1138 (2019) [in Japanese].
Personal
Cornell Law School (LL.M., 2017); the University of Tokyo (LL.B., 2005)
Languages Spoken
Japanese, English.
Chambers Review
FinTech
Akihiro Shiba has considerable experience in domestic and international financial transactions, with particular expertise in financial regulation.
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"Akihiro Shiba is very intelligent and very quick to understand our issues and challenges. He is flexible and creative in solving our issues. He is also kind and a good communicator."
"Akihiro Shiba is very intelligent and very quick to understand our issues and challenges. He is flexible and creative in solving our issues. He is also kind and a good communicator."
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