Hiroko Shibata

Hiroko has more than 20 years’ experience advising numerous Japanese and international clients on a wide range of domestic and cross-border M&A transactions. She excels at handling multijurisdictional M&A, as well as novel transactions requiring complex, detailed structuring and implementation. In addition, she specialises in corporate governance and employment issues.

Hiroko has a bachelor’s degree in law from the University of Tokyo and an LLM from the University of California, Berkeley School of Law. She is admitted to practice in Japan and New York.