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Tsugumichi Watanabe

Tsugu’s practice focuses on financing matters with particular emphasis on: project finance and infrastructure transactions; leveraged and asset-based lending financings, including aircraft financings; loan trading; and loan restructurings and refinancings, including in a bankruptcy context. Tsugu currently serves as the Managing Partner of Morgan Lewis’s Tokyo Office. Tsugu counsels clients in real estate, mergers and acquisitions, and general corporate matters, including employment issues involving Japanese affiliates of multinational companies. He also assists Japanese clients in international arbitration proceedings and US litigation, and he advises both Japanese and non-Japanese clients on cross-border transactions originating from inside and outside Japan. · Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP

United StatesProject Finance, Infrastructure TransactionsJapanese

About

Tsugu’s practice focuses on financing matters with particular emphasis on project finance and infrastructure transactions; leveraged and asset-based lending financings, including aircraft financings; loan trading; and loan restructurings and refinancings, including in a bankruptcy context. He counsels clients in real estate, mergers and acquisitions, and general corporate matters, including employment issues involving Japanese affiliates of multinational companies. He also assists Japanese clients in international arbitration proceedings and US litigation, and advises both Japanese and non-Japanese clients on cross-border transactions. He currently serves as the Managing Partner of Morgan Lewis’s Tokyo Office.

Practice areas

Project FinanceInfrastructure TransactionsLeveraged LendingAsset-Based LendingAircraft FinanceLoan TradingLoan RestructuringLoan RefinancingBankruptcyReal EstateMergers and AcquisitionsCorporate MattersEmployment Law

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Expertise

Project FinanceInfrastructureLeveraged LendingAsset-Based LendingAircraft FinanceLoan TradingLoan RestructuringRefinancingBankruptcyReal EstateMergers and AcquisitionsCorporateEmploymentInternational ArbitrationUS LitigationCross-Border Transactions

Education

  • Harvard College, BA
  • Harvard University, MA
  • Harvard Law School

Languages

Japanese