Professionals
Partner
Kenta Ikebe
- Admitted
- 2011, Japan; 2019, New York
- Languages
- Japanese/English
Practices
- General Corporate
- Emerging Companies Practice Law
- Banking and Other Financial Transactions
- Structured Finance, Acquisition Finance and Securitization
- Asset Management, Funds, Investment Trusts, J-REIT and Private Placement REIT
- Asset Finance
- Project Finance
- Financial Services Regulations
- Fintech
- Real Estate Fund and REIT
- Real Estate Finance
- Real Estate Transactions
- Real Estate Dispute
- Cross-Border Transactions
- Foreign Direct Investment
- International Litigation
- International Arbitration
- Electricity / Gas
- Renewable Energy
- E-commerce
- Transportation and Logistics
- Hotels and Leisure
- TMT
- Crypto Assets/NFTs
- Construction
- Infrastructure / PFI / PPP
Professional Background / Education
Professional Background
- 2012 to Present
- City-Yuwa Partners
- 2018-2019
- Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP (New York Office)
Education
- 2008
- The University of Tokyo (LL.B.)
- 2010
- The University of Tokyo Graduate School of Law (J.D.)
- 2011
- Legal Training and Research Institute
- 2018
- Columbia Law School (LL.M.)
- Real Estate FinanceReal Estate Fund and REIT
- Continue to advise several Singaporean clients on the acquisition and operation of real estate and the procurement of finance.
- Project FinanceRenewable Energy
- Advised investors in Germany, Canada, the United States of America, the People's Republic of China and other countries on the formation and financing of renewable energy projects in Japan.
- Real Estate FinanceProject Finance
- Supported projects as a lender counsel in several cases related to the arrangement of real estate finance and project finance in the Japanese branches of several foreign banks.
- Project FinanceInfrastructure / PFI / PPP
- Assisted a Japanese bank in structuring project financing for a PFI project in Japan as lender counsel.
- Infrastructure / PFI / PPP
- Acted as legal counsel to a Kenyan government agency on a public facility construction project in Kenya in supporting a bidding process.
- TMT
- Continue to advise several Japanese companies engaged in online platform service business in structuring of transaction forms and crowdfunding structures from the perspective of the Payment Services Act and other relevant laws and regulations.
- Crypto Assets/NFTs
- Handled cases related to the clearance under the Payment Services Act for mining business and investigations into the regulatory status of stable coins in the U.S.