Akihiko (Aki) Takamatsu is a partner based in our Tokyo office and a Japanese-qualified banking and finance lawyer. As a fully bilingual lawyer, Aki has more than 15 years' experience across a broad range of cross-border and Japan domestic banking and finance practices, in particular, asset finance, projects, financial regulations and other general banking matters as well as insolvency and restructuring.
George Gibson is a banking, projects and export finance lawyer based in Tokyo. He specialises in the development, financing and acquisition and disposal of infrastructure and energy related projects, especially in the emerging markets. He has broad experience across the power, water, infrastructure, oil & gas, petrochemicals, renewables and nuclear sectors. George was formerly based in Norton Rose Fulbright's London, Bahrain and Milan offices, and first worked in Tokyo in 1997.
Paul is a banking and finance lawyer based in Tokyo, focusing on the shipping and offshore sectors. He acts for commercial banks, ECAs and sponsors in the financing of all manner of ships and offshore units using various financing structures, including complex cross-border project and asset-based leasing and debt facilities. Paul also has considerable experience drafting and negotiating commercial shipping agreements, including shipbuilding contracts and charterparties, and advising on the sale and purchase of ships, ship-owning companies and distressed shipping loans, acting for ship owners, charterers and financiers. Before joining the Tokyo office in 2010, Paul spent time in London and Singapore with a well-known international shipping law firm and on secondment to the Asia Shipping Desk of a leading bank in Hong Kong.
Sam Inohara is a corporate lawyer based in our Tokyo office. Sam's practice focuses on cross border mergers, acquisition and joint ventures (M&A) representing public and private companies in technology and innovation, life science and healthcare, and energy. He has substantial experience with carve out transactions and transactions involving multiple jurisdictions.