Ayako Kawano

Practice Areas

Real Estate

Real Estate Finance

Real Estate Funds

Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs)

Hospitality

Digital Infrastructure, Data Center and Cloud Computing

Private Equity

Mergers & Acquisitions

Corporate

Restructuring & Bankruptcy

Career

Ayako Kawano focuses her practice on real estate transactions, financing, fund formation, joint ventures, mergers and acquisitions, restructuring, and REIT matters. She has deep experience advising both international and domestic clients on acquisitions, dispositions, and the restructuring of distressed real estate and loan portfolios. She counsels clients on private equity investments as well as cross-border bankruptcy-related mergers and acquisitions. She regularly advises on the formation of real estate funds, as well as matters involving J-REITs and complex financing deals. She also advises clients on the complexities of international finance and has participated in cross-border transactions involving clients with interests across Japan, Asia, the United States, and Europe.

Professional Memberships

Member, Daini Tokyo Bar Association, Present

Personal

Education

LL.M., Harvard Law School

LL.B., Osaka University