JAPAN Law and Practice Contributed by: Ken Kawai, Shunsuke Aoki, Takeshi Nagase and Keisuke Hatano, Anderson Mori & Tomotsune
Anderson Mori & Tomotsune is one of the largest and most international Japanese law firms. The firm is best known for its long history of advising over - seas companies doing business in Japan and in cross-border transactions. Its main office in Tokyo is supported by two additional offices in Japan and eight offices overseas. The firm has one of the lead - ing fintech practices in Japan. With extensive expe - rience across all areas of fintech, Anderson Mori & Tomotsune’s skilled attorneys provide innovative and up-to-date legal advice to clients in this fast-growing
and cutting-edge industry. By virtue of the firm’s long history of success and proven understanding of new technology, its advice is regularly sought in fintech- related matters such as applications for licences and regulatory approvals for business start-ups, analysis of financial regulatory issues, consultations and ne - gotiations with regulatory authorities and self-regula - tory organisations, and the development and market - ing of innovative financial instruments, products and transactions.
Authors
Ken Kawai is a partner at Anderson Mori & Tomotsune. He has extensive experience in advising financial institutions, fintech start-ups, investors and corporate clients on complex finance and financial
Takeshi Nagase is a partner at Anderson Mori & Tomotsune. Between 2013 and 2014, Takeshi served on secondment in the disclosure department at the Financial Services Agency of Japan (FSA).
regulatory matters. Ken focuses primarily on the fintech industry and regularly advises fintech companies, financial institutions, governmental organisations and industry organisations on legal issues surrounding fintech.
Additionally, he handled a broad range of finance and corporate transactions on a secondment stint with the legal department of a major Japanese securities firm from 2015 to 2017. As a result of the unique perspective he has gained from these professional experiences, Takeshi has extended his focus to crypto-asset laws, including regulatory requirements applicable to the registration of crypto-asset exchange service providers, initial coin offerings, stablecoin businesses, and NFT businesses.
Shunsuke Aoki is a partner at Anderson Mori & Tomotsune. He advises primarily on financial regulatory matters, with a particular focus on fintech regulations and corporate finance transactions,
Keisuke Hatano is a partner at Anderson Mori & Tomotsune and specialises in payment and settlement-related regulations. He has also been involved in a number of significant finance transactions,
including equity and debt offerings in both domestic and international capital markets. He also regularly assists overseas clients in the cryptocurrency and crypto-derivatives industries on their entry into or exit from the Japanese market. Capitalising on his two-year stint with one of Japan’s leading securities houses, Shunsuke also acts for domestic financial institutions in their structuring of various financial instruments using innovative technologies such as blockchain. He also has considerable experience in matters relating to security tokens.
including representing clients in cross-border and domestic litigation. On secondment, he was an instrumental part of the FSA team tasked with amending the Banking Act with the aim of facilitating a pro-fintech ecosystem and environment in Japan. Keisuke also serves as a member of the committee on self-regulatory regulation at the Japan Association for Financial APIs, a body certified by the FSA under the Banking Act.
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