FFA Event

FFA: Japan

Name: FFA: Japan
Start: 2025-05-29T15:00:00Z
End: 2025-05-29T19:00:00Z
Location: SMBC Tokyo

May 29, 2025

Tokyo, Japan

2025 FFA Japan

The Fund Finance Association is proud to bring you our second annual FFA: Japan event held in-person at the SMBC Tokyo office on 29 May 2025.

Date: 29 May 2025
Time: Early Afternoon Start Time
Agenda: In-person panel speakers and networking reception
Ticket Cost: USD $500

Conference will be in Japanese (with simultaneous English translation) /コンファレンスは日本語で行われます（英語への同時通訳付）

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Platinum Sponsors

Gold Sponsors

Anderson Mori & Tomotsune

Anderson Mori & Tomotsune is a full-service law firm formed by the winning combination of three leading law firms in Japan: Anderson Mori, one of the largest international firms in Japan which was best known for serving overseas companies doing business in Japan since the early 1950s; Tomotsune & Kimura, particularly well-known for its expertise in international finance transactions; and Bingham Sakai Mimura Aizawa, a premier international insolvency/restructuring and crisis-management firm.Our combined firm provides an extraordinarily powerful value proposition. Housing all of these synergistic practices under one roof, and further increasing our resource scale, we have the capability to: (1) serve a multinational client base, (2) on in-bound, out-bound and domestic projects, (3) by providing expert, timely and cost-efficient advice, (4) across a full range of legal issues, and (5) in the largest, most complex, cross-sector transactions.We are proud of our long tradition of serving international business and legal communities and our reputation as one of the largest full-service law firms in Japan. Our combined expertise enables us to deliver comprehensive advice on virtually all legal issues that may arise from a corporate transaction, including those related to M&A, finance, capital markets and restructuring/insolvency, and litigation/arbitration. The majority of our lawyers are bi-lingual and experienced with communicating, drafting and negotiating across borders and around the globe. We welcome the opportunity to work closely with clients and channel our resources towards our goal of achieving more together.We are headquartered in Tokyo with branch offices in Osaka and Nagoya. Outside Japan, we have offices in Beijing, Shanghai, Singapore, Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City, Bangkok and London. We also have associated firms in Hong Kong and Jakarta.

アンダーソン・毛利・友常法律事務所は、1950年代初頭より、日本における本格的国際法律事務所の草分けとして、常に第一線で活躍してきたアンダーソン・毛利法律事務所、グローバルな証券発行等の国際金融取引やクロスボーダーの投資案件の分野において特に多くの実績を積んできた友常木村法律事務所、および、国際倒産・事業再生分野や危機管理部門において豊富な経験を有し、これを米国の大手法律事務所との外国法共同事業を通じて展開してきたビンガム・坂井・三村・相澤法律事務所（外国法共同事業）が合併・統合して誕生した、総合法律事務所です。当事務所は、合併・統合による得意分野の相乗効果と一層の規模の拡大により、一層幅広く質の高いリーガルサービスを機動的に提供し、多種多様な依頼者が直面するあらゆる法律問題や複雑な分野横断的案件に対して、迅速かつ的確に対応しております。現在、当事務所には、M&A、ファイナンス、キャピタル・マーケッツ、事業再生・倒産、訴訟・仲裁をはじめ、企業活動に関連するほぼすべての専門分野に、豊富な実績を有するバイリンガルの弁護士が数多く所属しております。その拠点網は、国内では東京のほか大阪および名古屋に、また、海外では北京、上海、香港、シンガポール、ハノイ、ホーチミン、バンコク、ジャカルタ、ロンドンにもおよび、海外ビジネスを拡大する国内外の依頼者の需要に応えております。当事務所は、今後ともわが国を代表する総合法律事務所として、国際・国内企業法務の分野において、依頼者のニーズに的確に応える総合的なリーガルサービスを提供してまいります。

Nagashima Ohno & Tsunematsu

Nagashima Ohno & Tsunematsu, based in Tokyo, Japan, is widely recognized as a leading law firm and one of the foremost providers of international and commercial legal services. The firm’s overseas network includes locations in New York, Singapore, Bangkok, Ho Chi Minh City, Hanoi, Jakarta* and Shanghai. The firm also maintains collaborative relationships with prominent local law firms. The approximately 600 lawyers of the firm, including about 50 experienced lawyers from various jurisdictions outside Japan, work together in customized teams to provide clients with the expertise and experience specifically required for each client matter.

(*Associate office)

長島・大野・常松法律事務所は、約600名の弁護士が所属する日本有数の総合法律事務所であり、東京、ニューヨーク、シンガポール、バンコク、ホーチミン、ハノイ、ジャカルタ*及び上海に拠点を構えています。当事務所は、日本のリーディングファームとして数々の大型案件を手掛け、あらゆる分野の法律問題に対応してきた実績に基づき、企業が必要とする様々なリーガルサービスをワンストップで提供できる体制を整えています。多岐にわたる分野の専門的知識と実績をもつ弁護士が機動的にチームを組み、質の高いアドバイスや実務的サポートを行っています。

（*提携事務所）

Silver Sponsors

Mori Hamada & Matsumoto

Mori Hamada & Matsumoto (MHM) is one of the largest full-service Tokyo-headquartered international law firms. A significant proportion of the firm’s work is international in nature, representing clients in cross-border transactions, litigation and other dispute resolution proceedings.

MHM has offices in Osaka, Nagoya, Fukuoka, Takamatsu and Sapporo in addition to its Tokyo headquarters. The firm has very strong full-service local law practices in Bangkok (Chandler MHM Limited) and Yangon (Myanmar Legal MHM Limited) and it is expanding its range of local law services in Ho Chi Minh City, Hanoi and Jakarta (ATD Law in association with Mori Hamada & Matsumoto). It also has offices in Singapore (MHM ASEAN hub), Shanghai and Beijing. In September 2023, the firm opened an office in New York through which it will further bolster its relationships with peer firms and clients in the US and the broader Americas regions, and provide them with efficient access to MHM’s Japan and ASEAN network. In January 2024, the firm announced a strategic relationship with Tayag Ngochua & Chu (“TNC”) in Philippines.

The firm has strong working relationships with leading firms throughout Asia (as well as in Europe and the Americas), which enables it to work for its clients as a single, integrated team.

MHM has over 750 lawyers and 630 support staff including patent attorneys, licensed tax accountants, legal assistants and translators. Its senior lawyers include highly respected practitioners and leaders from the Japanese and international legal community, including prominent law professors from the University of Tokyo, and a former Prosecutor-General from the Public Prosecutors Office. The firm also has experienced lawyers qualified in the US, England and Wales, the People’s Republic of China, Bangladesh, the Philippines, India, Malaysia, Singapore, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam and more.

Main Areas of Practice: Banking and finance; capital markets (including securitisation & derivatives and J-REITs); competition/antitrust; construction; corporate/M&A; crisis management; dispute resolution; employment; fintech; insurance; intellectual property; international trade; investment funds; life sciences; projects and energy; real estate; restructuring/insolvency; tax; technology, media and telecom (TMT); and private wealth law.

森・濱田松本法律事務所は、2002年に森綜合法律事務所と濱田松本法律事務所との統合により設立して以来、国内外の企業を取り巻く事業環境が大きく変化するなか、クライアントの皆さまに対し、あらゆる分野につき卓越したサービスを提供する総合事務所として、日々たゆまぬ研鑽そして変革を図り、クライアントの皆さまと共に成長することに努めて参りました。分野・世代をリードする個々の弁護士の力量を核に、数多くの弁護士・スタッフを擁する組織としての経験・知識・ノウハウをいかんなく発揮して、個々の案件においてクライアントの皆さまに最良の結果をご提供することを旨とし、特に、最先端の案件で新たなフレームワークを構築すること、困難な案件に立ち向かい難局を打破すること、多くの関係者の利害が錯綜する案件で合意をまとめあげることなど、チーム一丸となって対応して参ります。こうした個々の案件での経験を背景に、わが国のさまざまな制度の創設・改善に対する取り組みにも深く関与し、もって国内外の企業の方々が、わが国そしてグローバルに活躍できるリーガル・インフラストラクチャーの構築に貢献し、その一翼を担うことを使命としております。

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