Hiroo Atsumi

Hiroo Atsumi is the Senior Partner of Atsumi & Sakai. He has extensive experience in banking, capital markets and structured/asset finance, representing most major Japanese financial institutions and international investment banks on high value and complex finance transactions. Mr. Atsumi has won various accolades in the areas of banking, securitisation and structured finance, and is consistently recognised as a leading practitioner in the directories of IFLR 1000, Chambers, The Legal 500, Asialaw Profiles, The Best Lawyers in Japan, and Who’s Who Legal Japan He was also chosen as the Managing Partner of the Year at the Asian Legal Business (ALB) Japan Law Awards 2019.

• Major Japanese banks and financial institutions looking to invest in new technology and innovative strategies;
• Major institutional investors as plaintiffs on several major securities litigation cases; and
• Representing plaintiffs in a class action lawsuit against a major US multinational conglomerate in connection with a disaster in Japan.

• Asset finance
• Banking
• Structured finance/securitisation
• Capital markets: Debt
• Securitisation

• Banking
• Financial services
• Government and public policy
• Investment management
• Real estate

• Japan

• New York University School of Law (M.C.J., 1981)
• The University of Tokyo (LL.B., 1974)