Nagashima Ohno & Tsunematsu

Nobuaki Kobayashi co-leads the team at Nagashima Ohno & Tsunematsu, which maintains a stellar reputation in the workout and turnaround market, with the team regularly advising on out-of-court matters. The group also draws on its cross-practice experience, such as its experience in technology-related matters, having advised on the civil rehabilitation proceedings of cryptocurrency exchange MtGox. The practice continues to advise an increasingly diverse number of clients on both the debtor and sponsor side, as well as major banks and financial institutions. Kobayashi has expansive experience in acting in high-profile proceedings such as large-scale corporate reorganisations, as well as in out-of-court workouts both in Japan and overseas, and practice co-head Yosuke Kanegae represents numerous listed companies in out-of-court restructuring cases. The team displays strong cross-border capabilities, with Takashi Suzuki and Tomohiro Okawa handling a broad range of global restructuring cases.