
Anderson Mori & Tomotsune
Taro Awataguchi

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Asia-Pacific
Restructuring/Insolvency - Japan
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Taro has regularly represented (i) distressed debtor companies, (ii) large creditor groups (including creditors' committees), and (iii) strategic/financial buyers of the debtor company, its business or assets in high-profile restructuring cases for almost two decades. His work is greatly appreciated by his many clients for his ability to achieve full or near-to-full recovery in debt collections and successful exits from restructuring in very difficult cases. He has extensive experience in the area of cross-border insolvency. His expertise covers a wide range of industries including banking, security brokerage, manufacturing, construction, retailing, real estate, hotel, golf resorts and fintech. He is often appointed by the Japanese courts as a trustee in complex bankruptcy cases. Taro is regarded as one of the opinion leaders in the area of secured transactions, and was a member of an official preparatory group for an upcoming reform of the law of security interests. He frequently speaks at prestigious symposia and conferences, and has published frequently-cited articles that have become important points of reference for leading practitioners and academics in the field of insolvency.
Career
Admitted in Japan (2002)
Professional Memberships
Tokyo Bar Association (Japan), 2002
INSOL International
EAAIR
JATP
JABR
ABL Association of Japan
Personal
Waseda University (LLB, 1995)
Taro Awataguchi
Anderson Mori & Tomotsune



Otemachi Park Building, 1-1-1 Otemachi, Chiyoda-ku,
1-1-1 Otemachi
Chiyoda-ku
Tokyo
Tokyo-to
Japan
100-8136

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