Professionals
Partner
Noriyuki Katayama
- Admitted
- 1990, Japan; 1996, New York
- noriyuki.katayama@city-yuwa.com
- Languages
- Japanese/English
Practices
Noriyuki Katayama is a founding partner of the Firm. Mr. Katayama has been primarily involved in the general corporate law. Mr. Katayama’s practice includes banking and finance, mergers & acquisitions, cross-border transactions, derivatives, distressed assets and real estate.
- General Corporate
- Corporate Governance / Shareholders Meetings
- Regulatory
- Tax Practice
- Banking and Other Financial Transactions
- Structured Finance, Acquisition Finance and Securitization
- Asset Management, Funds, Investment Trusts, J-REIT and Private Placement REIT
- Derivative Transactions
- Dispute Resolution in Financial Transaction and ADR
- M&A
- Venture Capital / Private Equity
- Real Estate Fund and REIT
- Real Estate Finance
- Real Estate Transactions
- Real Estate Dispute
- Arbitration, Mediation and other ADRs
- Commercial Litigation
- Unfair Competition, Designs, Trademarks and Copyrights
- License Agreement / Technology Transfer Agreement
- General Consultations on Personnel and Labor Matters
- Cross-Border Transactions
- Foreign Direct Investment
- International Litigation
- International Arbitration
- Asia Practice
Professional Background / Education
Professional Background
- 1990-1996
- Nagashima and Ohno (currently, Nagashima, Ohno & Tsunematsu)
- 1996-2003
- Tokyo City Law & Tax Partners
- 1995-1997
- Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP, New York & Paris (Visiting Attorney)
- 1997-1999
- Daiwa Securities Co. Ltd., Tokyo Legal Department and Derivatives & Structured Financial Products Group (Legal Counsel)
- 1999-2000
- Daiwa Securities SB Capital Markets Co, Ltd., (currently, Daiwa Securities Co. Ltd.), Tokyo, Principal Investment Group, Structured Finance Department (Legal Counsel)
- 2000-2001
- Mitsui Fudosan Co. Ltd., Tokyo Real Estate Securitization Department (Legal Counsel)
- 2003 to Present
- City-Yuwa Partners
- 2004-
- Deutsche Asset Management Japan, Statutory Auditor
- 2005-2007
- Seikei University School of Law, part-time lecturer on "Moot Court for Civil Cases"
- 2006-2012
- Member of National Institution for Academic Degrees and University Evaluation for certified evaluation and accreditation for Law School
- 2006-
- Meiji University Graduate Program of Global Business (Business School), part-time lecturer on "The Law of Asset Securitization"
- 2006-2011
- Deutsche Securities Inc., Statutory Auditor (Part-time)
- 2006-2014
- Accordia Golf Co., Ltd., member of the Board (External Member)
- 2007-2016
- Member of Compliance Committee, Daiwa House REIT Management Co., Ltd.
- 2008-2014
- Seikei University School of Law, part-time lecturer on "Structured Finance -focusing on Real Estate Financing-"
- 2009-2017
- Toyo University Law School, Visiting Professor on "Corporate Law & Practice" and "Law & Practice on Cross Boarder Transaction"
- 2013-2015
- SIA REIT, Inc. (currently, One REIT, Inc.), Supervisory Director
- 2014-2016
- a member of the Committee of Bar Examiners and is in charge of the commercial and corporate law portion of the Preliminary Qualifying Bar Examination
- 2014-
- Nissan Chemical Corporation, Statutory Auditor (Part-time)
- 2014-2016
- Nanzan School of Law, part-time lecturer on "Corporate Law & Practice"
- 2017-
- Heiwa Real Estate Reit, Inc., Supervisory Director
- 2018-
- Nippon Denkai, Ltd., Director who is an Audit and Supervisory Committee Member
- 2019-2022
- Astena Holdings Co., Ltd., Substitute Statutory Auditor
- 2019-
- Livesense Inc., Statutory Auditor
- 2021-
- AIDA ENGINEERING, LTD., Statutory Auditor
- 2022-
- Create restaurants holdings inc., Director who is an Audit and Supervisory Committee Member
Education
- 1988
- Waseda University (LL.B.)
- 1990
- Legal Training and Research Institute
- 1995
- University of Washington (LL.M.)
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Books“International Securities Law Handbook, Fourth Edition”Noriyuki Katayama Gen TakizawaFebruary 2015Practices : Banking and Other Financial Transactions Capital Markets
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Books“For Practical Use: Selected Court Cases on International Business”Noriyuki KatayamaJanuary 2015Practices : General Corporate Cross-Border Transactions International Litigation
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Books“Visual Guide for Structure and Mechanism of Labor Laws”Noriko Higashizawa Yasuyuki Kuribayashi Noriyuki Katayama Katsuko Iizuka Kiyoshi Asada ...March 2014Practices : General Consultations on Personnel and Labor Matters Collective Bargaining Labor Litigation and Arbitration
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Articles“Revisions to the Financial Instruments and Exchange Act, etc.”Noriyuki KatayamaAugust 2013Practices : Banking and Other Financial Transactions M&A
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Books“International Securities Law Handbook, Third Edition”Noriyuki KatayamaOctober 2010Practices : Banking and Other Financial Transactions
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BooksShogai Bengoshi Gyomu Data File “Credit Risk Trading”Noriyuki KatayamaJanuary 2000Practices : Banking and Other Financial Transactions
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Articles“Credit Derivatives: A U.S. Practice Perspective”Noriyuki KatayamaJanuary 1997Practices : Derivative Transactions
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Seminarsthe ISDA Master Agreement ConferenceThe 2002 ISDA Master AgreementNoriyuki KatayamaJune 18, 2019
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SeminarsJLL Academy 2015Trend on Corporate Governance effected by the newly introduced `Corporate Governance Code`Noriyuki KatayamaJuly 30, 2015Practices : General Corporate General Civil Practice
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SeminarsCross-Border Legal Services in the Asia Region – Developments and the FutureStrategy and planning: Considerations and issues involving cross-border legal services in Asia (Katayama) “Impact of integrating gender perspective to legal practice: What we have achieved, now and beyond.”(Koizumi)Noriyuki Katayama Yoshiko KoizumiNovember 13, 2013
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SeminarsCorporate Activity and Real Estate – the General Seminar“Basic Concept of and the Challenges of the Securitization of Real Estate from the Perspective of a Lawyer”Noriyuki KatayamaMarch 16, 2013Practices : Asset Finance Real Estate Fund and REIT Real Estate Finance
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SeminarsThe session of the 2002 ISDA Master Agreement“Understanding the ISDA Master Agreements Conference”Noriyuki KatayamaApril 19, 2012Practices : Banking and Other Financial Transactions Derivative Transactions Cross-Border Transactions
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Seminarsspecial seminar“The Future of Corporate Real Estate Management”Noriyuki KatayamaJanuary 31, 2009Practices : Asset Finance Real Estate Fund and REIT Real Estate Finance
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SeminarsThe session of the 2002 ISDA Master Agreement“Understanding the ISDA Master Agreements Conference”Noriyuki KatayamaAugust 1, 2008Practices : Banking and Other Financial Transactions Derivative Transactions Cross-Border Transactions
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SeminarsPractical issues regarding Real Property TransactionsKeisuke Ide Noriyuki Katayama Izuru Goto Ken Takii Masamichi Sakamoto ...May 26, 2008Practices : Real Estate Fund and REIT
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Seminarsa Memorial Lecture of Mr. Yasusuke Nakajima's retirementValuable Management of Real Estate and CRE (Corporate Real Estate)Noriyuki KatayamaMarch 8, 2008Practices : Asset Finance Real Estate Fund and REIT Real Estate Finance
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SeminarsUnderstanding the ISDA Master Agreements Conferencethe 2003 ISDA Credit DerivativesNoriyuki KatayamaJuly 11, 2006Practices : Banking and Other Financial Transactions Derivative Transactions Cross-Border Transactions
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Noriyuki Katayama is appointed as a member of the Committee of Bar Examiners and is in charge of the commercial and corporate law portion of the Preliminary Qualifying Bar Examination.March 4, 2016Pro Bono
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Noriyuki Katayama is appointed as a member of the Committee of Bar Examiners and is in charge of the commercial and corporate law portion of the Preliminary Qualifying Bar Examination.March 9, 2015Pro Bono
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Noriyuki Katayama has accepted a position to serve as a part time lecturer and will teach a course on “Corporate Law and Practice” at Nanzan School of Law.December 15, 2014Pro Bono
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Noriyuki Katayama is appointed as a member of the Committee of Bar Examiners and is in charge of the commercial and corporate law portion of the Preliminary Qualifying Bar Examination.February 24, 2014Pro Bono
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Noriyuki Katayama’s dialogue titled “Current Status and Issues on J-REIT market with the 10th Year Anniversary” appeared in The Nikkei Business Daily on June 24, 2010.June 24, 2010Media
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Noriyuki Katayama was introduced in an article “Series of Interviews of Excellent Teachers/Interviewing Prof.June 11, 2010Media
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Noriyuki Katayama authored an article titled “Taxation on Foreign Investment Funds,” which appeared in Business Skill of The Nikkei Business Daily on May 26, 2010.May 26, 2010Media
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Noriyuki Katayama’s comments appeared on the article of Bloomberg News of December 4, 2009 titled “Tokyo Stock Exchange Ordered to Pay JPY 10.7 Billion in the Mizuho Securities’ Law Suit on Wrongly Made Share’s Transaction’s Order (Update 2)”.December 4, 2009Media
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Noriyuki Katayama’s comments appeared on the article of Bloomberg News titled “Judgment on the Mizuho-TSE JPY 41.5 Billion Damage Claim Law Suit to be given on February 27, 2009 after Two-year Court Battle”.December 19, 2008Media
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Noriyuki Katayama has been appointed as an adjunct lecturer at Seikei Law School from April 2008 to give lectures titled “Structured Finance – focusing on Real Estate Financing”.February 25, 2008Media
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Noriyuki Katayama has been reappointed as a lecturer for the academic year of 2007 at the Graduate School of Global Business of Meiji University to give lectures on Laws related to Asset Securitization.July 30, 2007Pro Bono
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Noriyuki Katayama was appointed as an adjunct lecturer (Moot Court for Civil Cases) at Seikei University School of Law.April 21, 2005Pro Bono