Motoyasu Fujita

Practice Areas

Motoyasu has a wide range of experience advising financial institutions from derivatives and structured products (JGB/CB repackagings, credit-linked notes/loans), to securitisation and structured-equity transactions. He has given advice on Basel regulations in connection with derivatives, repackagings and synthetic transactions. Most recently, he has been providing advice in relation to transactions tied to the reduction of risk assets, where banks synthetically transfer bonds or loans governed by non-Japanese laws and/or insured or guaranteed by NEXI or JBIC, both Japanese ECAs.

Motoyasu is the Japanese law netting opinion counsel to the International Swaps and Derivatives Associations Inc. (ISDA), the International Capital Markets Association (ICMA), the International Securities Lending Association (ISLA) and Japan Securities Clearing Corporation (JSCC) and has expertise in regulations on derivatives and other market transactions, netting law and bankruptcy law. He is also a key contact of ISDA Japan DC Counsel. He graduated from Sophia University in 1998 and qualified in Japan in 2001. He obtained an LLM from Duke University Law School in 2007.