Mori, Yuichiro

Current Employment Position(s)

Partner

Languages

• English
• Japanese

Lawyer Overview

Yuichiro Mori has extensive experience in international and domestic commercial transactions, including restructurings, M&A, buyouts, and joint ventures, and in international and domestic dispute resolutions. He also is frequently appointed by the Tokyo District Court as a bankruptcy trustee.

Yuichiro represents debtors, creditors, distressed investors, and other stakeholders in insolvency proceedings in a variety of industries. His experience includes the corporate reorganization of Asyst Technologies Japan, as Japanese counsel to the Taiwanese customer; the bankruptcy of Kosugi Sangyo K.K., as Japanese counsel to the licensor for Golden Bear; the civil rehabilitation proceedings of Lehman Brothers Japan, as Japanese counsel to the ultimate parent company of Lehman Brothers Group as creditor; and the chapter 11 proceedings of Lyondell Chemical, as advisor to Sumitomo Chemical, a joint venture partner in Japan. He also successfully led the workout of a Japanese consumer finance company in a ¥43 billion debt restructuring involving 15 commercial banks.

Yuichiro is a member of the Japanese Bar Association, the Dai-ichi Bar Association, and the Nationwide Lawyers Network for Insolvency Proceedings.

Areas of Practice

• Business Restructuring & Reorganization
• Mergers & Acquisitions
• Intellectual Property
• Chapter 11 Debtor Representations
• Official Unsecured Creditors' Committees
• Bondholder Committees
• Distressed Mergers & Acquisitions
• Global Restructuring Matters
• Other Significant Creditor Representations
• Out-of-Court Restructurings
• Restructuring-Related Lending & Finance
• Secured Lender Groups
• Construction
• Licensing & Technology Transactions
• M&A

Representative Cases

• adidas Japan KK receives tender offer from Salomon
• Eco Asset participates in CDM (Clean Development Mechanism) projects in China
• NIF Ventures acquires Gakken Credit in MBO
• NTT Data acquires controlling interest in The Revere Group
• The Deutsch Group completes sale to WENDEL Investissement , (2009)

West Practice Categories

Banking & Finance Law, Bankruptcy Law, Business & Commercial Law, Business & Trade, Business Organizations, Business Successions, Closely Held Businesses, Collections & Repossessions, Collections & Repossessions, Commercial Bankruptcy, Commercial Leasing, Consumer Bankruptcy, Copyrights, Corporate Governance, Creditors' Rights, Debt Discharge, Directors' & Officers' Liability, Dissolution, Foreclosures, Formation & Business Planning, Franchising, Garnishment, Intellectual Property Law, International Intellectual Property, International Law, Joint Ventures, Limited Liability Companies, Mergers, Acquisitions & Divestitures, Non-profit & Tax-exempt Organizations, Partnerships, Patents, Reorganizations, Reorganizations & Restructuring, Securities Law, Shareholders' Rights, Technology Licensing, Trade Associations, Trade Dress, Trade Secrets, Trademarks, Workouts

Bar Admissions

• Dai-ichi Tokyo
• Japan

Education

• Waseda University - Japan

Published Works

• The Climate Report, 2009
• The New Way to Rehabilitate Distressed Companies in Japan, 2004
• New Opportunities for MEA Under the Civil Rehabilitation Law, 2003
• Primer for the Legal Profession, K.K. Seibun-do publishing, 2003
• Legal and Tax Issues of International Transactions, Sin Nihon Hoki Shuppan K.K. publishers, 2003

Address

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

Phones

81.3.6800.1827 (Business Phone)

Faxes

81.3.5401.2725 (Business Fax)

Emails

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Websites

http://www.jonesday.com