Shinichiro Abe

Shinichiro Abe is one of Japan’s leading specialists in Japanese and international corporate restructuring and insolvency law. He is highly respected as an advisor for transactions (including M&A) and structures requiring insolvency protection and solutions. He has also contributed to numerous publications and spoken at various seminars and events. He is a visiting professor at Chuo Law School.

Mr Abe has over 20 years of experience in the field of restructuring and insolvency on both the debtor side and creditor side. He has also acted as trustee in numerous bankruptcy proceedings.

Mr Abe founded Kasumigaseki Law Office in 2016 to provide specialised and cost-effective services to clients in the areas of restructuring and insolvency as well as crisis management. Although the firm was launched only last year, it has already been engaged in a range of restructuring and insolvency related matters, including cross-border as well as domestic cases.

Some of the firm’s representative matters include acting as:

•    Trustee for liquidated companies (including those with overseas subsidiaries)
•    Supervisor for rehabilitation procedures under the Civil Rehabilitation Law
•    Advisor for out-of-court workouts using Japan’s Turnaround ADR process
•    Advisor for debtors under the SME Business Rehabilitation Support Cooperative procedure
•    Advisor for governmental institutions (Nuclear Damage Compensation and Decommissioning Facilitation Corporation)

Mr Abe is a member of various kinds of professional affiliations. His memberships include:

•    Chair of Insolvency committee of International Pacific Bar Association
•    Board Member of the International Insolvency Institute
•    Board member of Japanese Association for Business Recovery (affiliation of Insol)
•    Board Member of the Japanese Association of Turnaround Professionals

His recent publications include:

•    Co-author, A Revised Corporate Law, Yachiyo Shuppan, 2016
•    “Creditor Reorganization Procedure Strategy”, Final Results of Reorganization, Shoji Homu, February 2015