Awards
Tomohiro Okawa
Partner
Tokyo Office
- Languages
- Japanese, English
- Qualifications
- 2008, Japan (Dai-Ichi Tokyo Bar Association)
Tomo Okawa is a partner at the Tokyo office of Nagashima Ohno & Tsunematsu. He 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.
Member: 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.
Awards: Chambers Asia-Pacific 2022- 2024 “Restructuring/Insolvency” (Band3), The Best Lawyers in Japan 2021-2024 “Insolvency and Reorganization Law”, The Legal 500 Asia Pacific 2021-2024 Next Generation Partners “Restructuring and insolvency”,
Practice Areas
Education/Professional Experience
- 2001
- Waseda University (LL.B.)
- 2002 - 2004
- PwC Consulting (currently IBM Japan, Ltd.)
- 2007
- Hitotsubashi University Law School (J.D.)
- 2008 -
- Nagashima Ohno & Tsunematsu
- 2014
- Columbia Law School （LL.M.）
- 2014 - 2015
- Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP, New York
- 2019 - present
- Partner, Nagashima Ohno & Tsunematsu
- 2019 - 2021
- Adjunct Lecturer (Civil Law), The University of Tokyo
- 2021 -
- Fellow, INSOL International
Awards
Seminars
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August 24, 2023 (Thu) 06:00 - 07:00Insolvency regimes in Asia: hot topics and case studies
- Tomohiro Okawa (Moderator)
Online
- Restructuring and Insolvency
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July 14, 2021 (Wed) 15:30 - 17:00COVID-19 – related M&A opportunities in Germany
- Tomohiro Okawa
- Makoto Ohnuma
- Axel Kuhlmann
Online (Live & On-Demand)
- M&A
- Mergers & Acquisitions
- Global Practice
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February 18, 2020 (Tue) 14:00 - 16:20Seminar on the Revised Civil Code – “Response to the Revised Civil Code Immediately Prior to Its Commencement”
- Hiroto Inoue
- Makoto Saito
- Hironori Matsuo
JP Tower Hall & Conference
- Corporate
- General Corporate
- Real Estate and REITs
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November 8, 2019 (Fri) 10:30 - 12:00
Cross-Border Insolvency (Panel Discussion)
- Tomohiro Okawa
Hiliton Tokyo
- Restructuring and Insolvency
Publications
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Articles
Lexology Panoramic – Distressed M&A 2024 Japan
(December 2023)
Kei Asatsuma, Tomohiro Okawa (Co-author)
- M&A
- Mergers & Acquisitions
- Restructuring and Insolvency
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Articles
Lexology Getting The Deal Through – Distressed M&A 2023 Japan
(November 2022)
Kei Asatsuma, Tomohiro Okawa (Co-author)
- M&A
- Mergers & Acquisitions
- Restructuring and Insolvency
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Articles
Lexology Getting The Deal Through – Distressed M&A 2022 Japan
(January 2022)
Kei Asatsuma, Tomohiro Okawa (Co-author)
- M&A
- Mergers & Acquisitions
- Restructuring and Insolvency
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Articles
The Insolvency Review – Edition 9 JAPAN
(October 2021)
Tomohiro Okawa
- Restructuring and Insolvency
