Katsumasa Suzuki

Practice Areas

Capital markets, M&A, corporate governance, governmental investigation and dispute resolution

Career

Columbia Law School (LLM). Visiting lawyer at Linklaters (2004-05). Partner, Mori Hamada & Matsumoto (2008-). Chair of M&A subcommittee in Securities Law Committee (2023) of International Bar Association. Co-Chaired 4th Asia-based International Finance Law Conference of IBA in Tokyo in 2023.

Professional Memberships

Admitted to Bar in Japan and New York State. Chartered Member of the Securities Analysts Association of Japan.

Publications

"Awaiting the arrival of SPACs in Japan" IFLR 2021. "Getting the Deal Through" Law Business Research 2019. "Doing Business in Japan-Securities Regulation" LexisNexis 2016. "Future Prospects of Takeovers in Japan Analyzed from the View of Shareownership

Structures and Laws in Comparison with the United States and the European Union" Columbia Journal of Transnational law 2004.