Tomohiro Okawa

Practice Areas

Restructuring/Insolvency, Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A), Finance and Banking.

Career

Mr. Tomohiro Okawa has been mainly involved in cross-border transactions by leveraging a variety of deal experiences, such as business reorganization and insolvency, banking, and M&A. In particular, he has a wealth of experience in helping distressed companies as debtor’s counsel, whether in-court or out-of-court, including handling distressed M&A and DIP financing.

Professional Memberships

Japanese Association of Turnaround Professionals,

All Japan Bankruptcy Lawyers’ Network,

INSOL International (INSOL Fellow),

International Insolvency Institute NextGen,

Daiichi Tokyo Bar Association Insolvency law study group, and

Business Rehabilitation Research Organization.

Publications

Lexology Getting The Deal Through – Distressed M&A 2022 Japan (Co-author), Law Business Research Ltd, 2022

The Insolvency Review Edition 9 JAPAN, Law Business Research Ltd, 2021

The Insolvency Review Edition 8 JAPAN (Co-author), Law Business Research Ltd, 2020

Münchener Kommentar zur Insolvenzordnung Band 4: EuInsVO 2015, Art. 102a-102c EGInsO, Länderberichte -Japan (Co-author), Verlag C.H.Beck, 2019

Personal

Waseda University (2001, LL.B.)　

Hitotsubashi University Law School (2007, J.D.)　

Columbia Law School (2014, LL.M.)