Mr Yosuke Kanegae > Nagashima Ohno & Tsunematsu > Tokyo, Japan > Lawyer Profile

Nagashima Ohno & Tsunematsu
JP TOWER, 2-7-2 MARUNOUCHI
CHIYODA-KU
TOKYO 100-7036
Japan
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Work Department

Restructuring/Insolvency, Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A), Risk and Crisis Management/Compliance, Corporate Governance, General Corporate, Civil and Commercial Disputes, Disputes in Foreign Jurisdictions, Employment Disputes, Tax Disputes, Environmental Disputes, Consumer Law (Consumer Litigation), Real Estate Transactions, Asia.

Position

Yosuke Kanegae has been involved principally in the area of Restructuring/Insolvency, Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) and Risk and Crisis Management. He has extensive experience with complicated voluntary liquidation and international restructuring/insolvency cases involved as a legal counsel of debtors, creditors and sponsors.

Career

2009-2015 Partner in Ohebashi LPC & Partners
2012-present Adjunct Lecturer (insolvency practice) in The University of Tokyo
2017-present Partner in Nagashima Ohno & Tsunematsu

Languages

Japanese, English and Chinese

Memberships

Daiichi Tokyo Bar Association Insolvency law study group, Japanese Association of Turnaround Professionals, Business Rehabilitation Research Organization, All Japan Bankruptcy Lawyers’ Network, The East Asian Association of Insolvency and Restructuring, Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (ACFE) and Inter-Pacific Bar Association (IPBA) member.

Education

1999 Kyoto University (LL.B.)
2005 Northwestern University School of Law (LL.M.)
2005-2006 Litigation team in Dewey Ballantine LLP (New York)
2006-2007 Shanghai Jiao Tong University (China) for language training

Lawyer Rankings

Japan > Restructuring and insolvency: Independent local firms

(Leading individuals: Bengoshi)

Yosuke KanegaeNagashima Ohno & Tsunematsu

Nobuaki Kobayashi co-leads the team at Nagashima Ohno & Tsunematsu, which maintains a stellar reputation in the workout and turnaround market, with the team regularly advising on out-of-court matters. The group also draws on its cross-practice experience, such as its experience in technology-related matters, having advised on the civil rehabilitation proceedings of cryptocurrency exchange MtGox. The practice continues to advise an increasingly diverse number of clients on both the debtor and sponsor side, as well as major banks and financial institutions. Kobayashi has expansive experience in acting in high-profile proceedings such as large-scale corporate reorganisations, as well as in out-of-court workouts both in Japan and overseas, and practice co-head Yosuke Kanegae represents numerous listed companies in out-of-court restructuring cases. The team displays strong cross-border capabilities, with Takashi Suzuki and Tomohiro Okawa handling a broad range of global restructuring cases.