Yamada, Toru

Current Employment Position(s)

Partner

Languages

• Japanese

Lawyer Overview

Toru Yamada advises companies in a broad range of industries, including pharmaceutical companies, tire manufacturers, securities firms, private equity firms, asset management firms, and financial advisers. His areas of practice include mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, structured finance, securities regulations, fund formations, real estate securitizations, labor, corporate restructurings, and corporate counseling.

Toru served as the lead counsel in acquisition transactions of various listed and nonlisted companies in Japan. He also served as the lead counsel in a number of real estate securitization transactions and fund formations.

Toru is a member of the Dai-Ichi Tokyo Bar Association, the New York State Bar Association, the American Bar Association, the Japanese American Society for Legal Studies, the Trust Companies Association of Japan, among others. He is an editorial supervisor of "Complete Corporate Internal Rules" and "Complete Corporate Officers Rules" and a coauthor of "Limited Liability Partnership: Law and Registration." He has recently authored articles in Japanese periodicals about labor and equity finance.

Areas of Practice

• Mergers & Acquisitions
• Privacy & Data Security
• M&A
• Joint Ventures & Strategic Alliances

Representative Cases

• Bayer AG forms strategic alliance with Schering-Plough , (2009)
• BOT Lease Co. finances Minami Towada wind power project in Japan
• Bridgestone acquires Bandag for $1 billion
• Diebold acquires TASC Security
• Dow Corning Corp acquires Silicone Division of Nippon Unicar Company
• Galileo Funds and Arcadis Capital acquire twenty-one property portfolio , (2009)
• Harry Winston obtains $60 million credit facility
• Industrial Bank of Taiwan arranges securitization to finance the expansion of Chi Mei Optoelectronics
• LaSalle Asia Recovery Fund acquires and develops a shopping center in Funabashi, Chiba, Japan , (2009)
• NineSigma invests in subsidiary
• Shinsei Bank Limited acquires 35% interest in Jih Sun Financial for $382 million
• Sumitomo merges with Dainippon Pharmaceutical
• Timken Company acquires Torrington Division of Ingersoll-Rand Company , (2009)

West Practice Categories

Business Organizations, Business Successions, Closely Held Businesses, Corporate Governance, Directors' & Officers' Liability, Dissolution, Formation & Business Planning, Franchising, Joint Ventures, Limited Liability Companies, Mergers, Acquisitions & Divestitures, Non-profit & Tax-exempt Organizations, Partnerships, Reorganizations, Shareholders' Rights, Trade Associations

Bar Admissions

• Japan
• New York

Education

• Harvard University
• U of Tokyo - Japan

Address

Kamiyacho Prime Place
1-17, Toranomon 4-chome
Minato-ku, Tokyo 105-0001, Japan

Phones

81.3.6800.1815 (Business Phone)

Faxes

81.3.5401.2725 (Business Fax)

Emails

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Websites

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