Nishimura & Asahi

Corporate finance and real estate practice

Partner, Tokyo

Yoshihiko Kawakami is a renowned expert in the sphere of corporate finance and real estate. He works predominantly in the areas of real estate, structured finance, and international finance.

Among other things, Yoshihiko is recognized as an authority on real-estate finance and a pioneer in structured finance. He has advised on various types of real property and its related finance, as well as investment funds, including J-REITs and private real-estate funds. He has been involved in numerous significant transactions employing various structures; these transactions have included a variety of underlying assets, including those that are not monetary claims or real property, such as movable property, whole businesses, and intellectual property. His expertise extends to other international and domestic finance areas, such as banking, trust, and securities regulation, and equity and mezzanine finance including BIS finance, project finance, public sector finance, Islamic finance, and finance in the renewable energy sector, including mega solar project bonds. He also heads the firm’s Middle East Practice Team, and has advised on various matters in relation to that region, as well as Asian countries.

Japanese, English

1996 | Admitted in New York 1990 | Admitted in Japan

1995 | Harvard Law School (LL.M.) 1988 | The University of Tokyo (LL.B.)