Ropes & Gray LLP

Ropes & Gray LLP’s finance team in Tokyo is noted particularly for its leveraged finance experience, which includes novel transactions involving incremental facilities and offshore-to-onshore financing structures. Tsuyoshi Imai specialises in leveraged buyouts, acquisitions, and corporate finance transactions. He leads the group alongside Ben Morris, who regularly works with private equity sponsors and their portfolio companies, asset managers, and other financial institutions in relation to domestic and cross-border leveraged acquisition finance transactions (including public-to-private transactions), margin loans, property finance, debt buy-backs, refinancings, and restructurings.