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Tadashi Wada / 和田正　

Phone: 03-5544-8296
FAX 03-5544-8297

March 1992 Graduated from Hyogo Prefectural Kobe High School
March 1996 Graduated from Meiji University, Faculty of Law, Department of Law
October 1997 Passed the National Bar Examination (52nd term)
April 2000 Registered as an attorney at Tokyo Bar Association
April 2000 Joined Matsuo Sogo Law Office (currently Matsuo Sogo Law Office)
August 2004 Entered University of California, Berkeley, School of Law
May 2005 Graduated from University of California, Berkeley, School of Law (LLM)
September 2005 Joined Morrison & Foerster LLP, Los Angeles Office
Passed the New York State Bar Exam, November 2005
Admitted to the New York State Bar, April 2006
September 2006 Returned to Matsuo & Associates (Partner)
April 2007 Moved to Ito Mitomi & Associates (currently Morrison & Foerster)
December 2012 Passed the Small and Medium Business Management Consultant Examination
April 2013 Registered as a Small and Medium Enterprise Management Consultant
June 2013 Registered as an organization to support management innovation, etc.
Partner, Minato Kyowa Law Office, May 2014
Executive Director of Insolvency Law Department, Tokyo Bar Association, 2020
September 2022 Established Sakuragawa Kyowa Law Office, Partner

Business restructuring
Bankruptcy (corporate reorganization, civil rehabilitation, private liquidation, bankruptcy)
Mergers and acquisitions
Corporate law, guidance for shareholders’ meetings
International transactions
Intellectual property rights and tentertainment business
Start-up business
Real estate transactions
Finance

Representation of trustees for reorganization of 13 companies including Niigata Iron Works Co.
Representation of trustees in reorganization of 7 companies including Yudai Sangyo Co.
Acting as trustee for reorganization of WILLCOM, Inc.
Sanko Kisen Corporation, acting as a member of the Investigation Committee
Ohara Shoten Ltd., acting for reorganization trustees
Other creditors’ representatives, sponsors’ representatives, etc.

Hillcrest Golf Club, Inc.
Abiding Co., Ltd. as proxy for petition
Nippon View Hotel Co.
Kouritsu Kasei Corporation and one other company Filing agent
OGAWA TECHNO Corporation Agent for the petition
Ltd. as proxy for the petition
Izumi Seiki Corporation Sponsor’s agent
Soshin Corporation and others Agent for sponsor
M&A agent for rehabilitation debtor Niigata Seimitsu Co.
Other numerous representatives for Investigation Committee members and creditors’ side

Matsumoto Moving Center Corporation, M-Tech Corporation, AirAsia Japan K.K. and others, and numerous other trustee representatives
Trustee representation in numerous bankruptcy cases, including Digix, Inc.
Oita Flower Country Club Corporation, Kato Gumi Construction Co.
Representation of sponsors and creditors in bankruptcy proceedings, including business transfers
Private liquidation cases
Representation of debtors in cases supported by Enterprise Turnaround Initiative Corporation of Japan
Counsel for sponsors
Representation of debtors and creditors in other private liquidation cases

Business transfers, stock transfers, demergers, mergers, stock transfers, MBOs, tender offers, formation of joint ventures with overseas companies, and many other domestic and international M&A transactions.

Rehabilitation Plan Casebook” (August 2002, Turnaround Research Institute of Japan, Shojihomu)
The Essence of Corporate Restructuring” (May 2005, edited by Sunao Shimizu, Shojihomu)
Bankruptcy Filing Manual” (February 2010, Tokyo Bar Association Insolvency Law Section, Shojihomu)
Manual for Handling Bankruptcy Cases” (March 2011, Shin Nihon Hoki)
Bankruptcy Practice Q&A 200 Questions” (December 2012, National Insolvency Lawyers Network, Kinyu Zaimu Jigyo Kenkyukai)
Corporate Reorganization Practice Q&A 120 Questions” (December 2013, National Insolvency Lawyers Network (ed.), Kinzai Institute for Financial Business Research, Inc.
Strategies for ‘Corporatization’ of Small Companies: Growth Processes in the Raw Retail and Service Industries” (2014, Doyukan)
Manual for Filing, Investigation, Determination, Payment and Distribution of Bankruptcy Claims” (2017, Sankyo Hoki Shuppan)
Debt Management and Collection Practice Q&A 166 Questions [2019 Edition],” (Business Rehabilitation and Debt Management No. 165, 2038, Kinzai Institute for Financial Affairs (co-author))
Normal Rehabilitation Practice Q&A 150 Questions (2021, National Insolvency Lawyers Network (ed.), Kinzai Institute for Financial Affairs)
International Turnaround (The Latest Situation of Turnaround in Singapore)” (2022, Turnaround Research Institute of Japan, ed.)
Turnaround Finance Practice” (2022, Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation Turnaround Group, Tokyo Bar Association Insolvency Law Section, ed.)

Bankruptcy Procedures in the U.S.: Learning from the Birth of the New GM” (Business Law Journal, November 2009, LexisNexis (co-author))
A case in which the country where the foreign main proceedings are located was determined to be the authorized country for a debtor whose petition for recognition of foreign insolvency proceedings conflicted with the Italian and U.S. insolvency proceedings in Japan” (Turnaround
and Debt Management, July 5, 2013 issue, Kinzai Institute for Financial Business (co-author)) (in Japanese)
The Potential of Small Businesses in the Era of Deflation Eradication,” (Corporate Diagnosis News, December 2014 issue (co-author))
‘Facts on Workouts in the United Kingdom’ (2015, Kokusai Shoji Homu 43, No. 10)
‘A Cross-Sectional Study on Maintaining Business and Business Relationships between Small and Large Companies after the Lifting of the Emergency Declaration: From the Perspective of Turnaround Practitioners’ (2020, NBL, No. 1171 (Co-author))
Reform of the Collateral Law from the Perspective of Insolvency and Restructuring Practice: Focusing on Legislative Policy, No. 3: Consideration of Business Collateral and Comprehensive Collateral” (2020, NBL No. 1184 (co-author)) (in Japanese)
Reform of Collateral Law from the Perspective of Insolvency and Restructuring Practice – Focusing on Legislative Policy, No. 4: Examination of Comprehensive Collateral” (2020, NBL No. 1186 (co-author)) (in Japanese)

Tokyo Bar Association

Tadashi Wada / 和田 正