Tsugumichi Watanabe

Latin America Team; Finance

Tsugu’s practice focuses on financing matters with particular emphasis on: project finance and infrastructure transactions; leveraged and asset-based lending financings, including aircraft financings; loan trading; and loan restructurings and refinancings, including in a bankruptcy context. Tsugu currently serves as the Managing Partner of Morgan Lewis’s Tokyo Office.  Tsugu counsels clients in real estate, mergers and acquisitions, and general corporate matters, including employment issues involving Japanese affiliates of multinational companies. He also assists Japanese clients in international arbitration proceedings and US litigation, and he advises both Japanese and non-Japanese clients on cross-border transactions originating from inside and outside Japan.

Harvard College, BA; Harvard University, MA; Harvard Law School