Awards & Rankings 03.29.19
Masao Kasatsugu is a counsel in Pillsbury’s Tokyo office and a member of the Project Finance and Asset Finance teams.
Masao has been a resident Bengoshi in the Japanese market for several years and regularly advises Japanese clients that include major trading houses, financial institutions, aircraft and engine leasing companies, airlines and manufacturers on their cross border project finance and asset financing transactions, energy-related projects, mergers and acquisitions, restructurings and general corporate law. He is a Japanese qualified Bengoshi and a member of the Dai-ichi Tokyo Bar Association.
Professional Highlights
- “Exchange Tender Offer under the Law on Special Measures for Industrial Revitalization and Management Buyout Strategies of Executives and Funds,” M&A Capital Markets Seminar, Kinyu Zaimu Kenkyukai, June 23, 2011.
- “Overseas M&A Financial Strategy – Scheme of Arrangement, etc.,” M&A Capital Markets Seminar, Kinyu Zaimu Kenkyukai, May 26, 2011.
- “Due Care of a Prudent Manager in Management Buyouts and Earthquake Disaster Countermeasures in M&A Transactions," M&A and Capital Markets Seminar, Kinyu Zaimu Kenkyukai, April 26, 2011.
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- Speaking Engagements
- “New Trends in Management Buyout Practices as Seen in the Gentosha Inc. and TSUTAYA Transactions,” M&A and Capital Markets Seminar, Kinyu Zaimu Kenkyukai, March 24, 2011.
- “Innovation in M&A and Fundraising as Observed in Revisions to the Act on Special Measures for Industrial Revitalization, Rights Issues and the Introduction of Islamic Bonds,” M&A and Capital Markets Seminar, February 24, 2011.
- “M&A and Capital Markets as Seen from Cases Involving the Management Buyout of Gentosha, Inc., and DeNA Co., Ltd.,” M&A and Capital Markets Seminar, Kinyu Zaimu Kenkyukai, January 27, 2011.
- External Publications
- Corporate Law and the Internet — Insight from Recent Legal Cases, Gyosei, 2010. Co-author.
Education
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J.D., Chuo Law School, 2008
LL.B., Chuo University, 2004
The Legal Training and Research Institute of the Supreme Court of Japan
Admissions
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Japan, Dai-ichi Tokyo Bar Association
Languages
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Japanese