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About
Provided by Katsu Sengoku
Practice Areas
Banking, Structured Finance/Securitization, Asset Finance, Cross-border Financial Transactions.
Career
Partner, Nishimura & Asahi; Visiting Scholar, Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California, Berkeley (1984-1985).
Professional Memberships
Admitted: Japan, 1982.
Publications
Co-author: "Corpus Juris Finance - Completely Revised Edition (first volume)" (Shojihomu, 2017); "Getting the Deal Through - Aviation Finance & Leasing 2022 (Japan Chapter)"(Law Business Research, 2022).
Personal
Graduate of Waseda University (LLB, 1980; LLM, 1987), Legal Training and Research Institute of the Supreme Court of Japan, and Yale Law School (LLM, 1984).
Chambers Review
Global
Katsu Sengoku is head of Nishimura & Asahi's banking and finance team and is well versed in handling asset financing matters, with a particular emphasis on ship and aircraft financing.
Katsu Sengoku is based in Tokyo and has a wealth of experience in asset financing and trading transactions. He is strong in both cross-border and domestic matters, with particular skill in banking and structured finance, securitisations, and aircraft and ship leasing.
Katsu Sengoku of Nishimura & Asahi is noted for his depth of experience advising on structured finance and securitisation.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"Katsu Sengoku is prolific in the Japanese market."
"He's a legendary figure."
"He is a legendary figure."
"Katsu Sengoku is prolific in the Japanese market."
"He's a legendary figure."
"He is a legendary figure."
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