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Hirotake Tanaka

Hirotake Tanaka focuses his practice on restructuring and bankruptcy. Since joining Oh-Ebashi in 2010, he has worked on a large number of bankruptcy cases, which spread across different fields including a land developer, golf course management company, medical group, public service company, transport company, food company etc. and his cases are almost all of extreme large scale involving debts of billion dollars. Furthermore, he is familiar with not only legal liquidation but also private arrangements. He has also succeeded in some complex cases such as the one transferred from civil rehabilitation proceedings to company reorganization proceedings via bankruptcy proceedings, the details of which are explained in his article “New Approach for the Use of Corporate Reorganization Proceedings”. In addition to the bankruptcy filed, he has dealt with M&A transaction cases and crisis management cases as his day-to-day legal practice. Based on his broad experiences and toughness, he has played significant roles in various cases. · Oh-Ebashi LPC & Partners

JapanBankruptcy & Restructuring, Corporate / M&AJapanese, English

About

Hirotake Tanaka focuses on restructuring and bankruptcy and has handled numerous large-scale insolvency matters across sectors (including land development, golf-course operators, medical groups, public-service companies, transport and food companies), often involving debts on the order of billions, and is experienced in both legal liquidation and private arrangements. He also advises on M&A and crisis management, holds an LL.M. from UCLA and worked at Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP in New York (2017–2018); he speaks Japanese and English.

Practice areas

Bankruptcy & RestructuringCorporate / M&AInternational PracticeLife Sciences & Healthcare

Office

Expertise

Land DevelopmentGolf & LeisureHealthcare / Medical GroupsPublic / UtilitiesTransportFood & BeverageM&ACrisis Management

Education

  • University of California, Los Angeles School of Law — LL.M. (2017)
  • Kyoto University Law School — J.D. (2009)
  • Kyoto University — LL.B. (2007)

Admissions

  • Osaka Bar Association; Japan Federation of Bar Associations (2010)
  • New York (2018)

Languages

JapaneseEnglish