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Investment funds

Japan brings more certainty to investment fund structures Equity in foreign limited partnerships is starting to receive equal legal treatment in Japan, explains Tadashi Yamada of Atsumi & Partners

January 12 2005

Structured finance

Resistance to innovation slows derivatives market With credit spreads remaining tight, Paul Cluley of Allen & Overy explores the potential for new structured finance products and innovation in the derivatives market

January 12 2005

Project bonds

Project bonds offer new financing option Proposed reforms should give Japanese project companies access to a new source of long-term capital in the form of project bonds. In the meantime, Takeshi Mukawa of Mori Hamada & Matsumoto explains how the existing legal hurdles can be overcome

January 12 2005

Emissions trading

Developing a framework for emissions trading in Japan Japan's commitments to the Kyoto Protocol mean emissions trading must develop rapidly, but a legal infrastructure is urgently needed, say Minoru Ota and Yoshitoshi Imoto of Nagashima Ohno & Tsunematsu

January 12 2005

Leveraged finance

How to finance buyouts in Japan Minoru Ota and Kentaro Suzuki of Nagashima Ohno & Tsunematsu outline the opportunities and the challenges when financing leveraged and management buyouts in Japan

January 12 2005

Equity capital markets

Momentum builds for equity and equity-linked products Japan's capital markets are showing promising signs that they can sustain their recent growth, with investors snapping up new products and a changing regulatory framework that is encouraging capital raising. By Piyasena Perera and Joshua Schwab of Allen & Overy

January 12 2005

Project finance

Effective security packages bring project finance surge Project finance in Japan is booming as security packages evolve to meet the demands of increasingly complex transactions, explains Naoaki Eguchi of Tokyo Aoyama Aoki Law Office/Baker & McKenzie

January 12 2005

Disclosure

Disclosure reforms to restore investor trust The updated Securities and Exchange Law aims to give investors in Japan'’s securities markets renewed confidence by ensuring higher and more reliable disclosure standards. Hiroyuki Ishizuka and Masaki Konishi of Nagashima Ohno & Tsunematsu explain

January 12 2005

Hostile takeovers

Hostile takeovers in Japan: the UFJ example David G Litt of O'Melveny & Myers and Hajime Iwaki of Watanabe Kokusai Law Offices analyze the implications of the UFJ-Mitsubishi Tokyo Financial Group takeover deal for M&A practices in Japan

January 12 2005

UBS interview

Giving Japan's distressed assets a well-needed workout Japanese companies accept that they need private - mainly foreign - money to help them out of their financial troubles, and restructurings and buyouts are booming. Andrew Crooke asks Fumitaka Eshima, UBS's head of legal in Japan, what challenges investors and their financiers face when structuring these deals

January 12 2005

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