Nishimura & Asahi

Investment fund/asset management practice

Partner, Tokyo

Specializing in finance, having significant experience in various areas such as investment funds/asset management, securities, derivatives, and FinTech, catering to both domestic and international clients. Also responsible for the Firm’s China practice.

Kei Ito is one of the leading partners of the Firm’s investment fund/asset management practice group. Mr. Ito has significant experience in various investment funds (ranging from traditional mutual funds to ETFs and to alternative investments such as private equity funds, and to climate funds and funds with a sustainable investment objective), providing asset management firms and other clients with regulatory advice, securities transactions, banking, derivatives, FinTech, structured finance transactions and a wide variety of other finance areas. Mr. Ito is very well versed in international finance transactions, catering to both domestic and international clients on various cross-border matters. Mr. Ito is also responsible for the Firm’s China practice.

Japanese, English, Chinese (Mandarin)

・New York University School of Law (LL.M.) (1997) ・The University of Tokyo (LL.B.) (1990)