Sanno Park Tower 12F (Reception) and 14F,
11-1, Nagatacho 2-chome, Chiyoda-ku,
Tokyo 100-6114, Japan

Tokyo Metro Ginza Line: G06 Tameike-sanno Station, Exit 7 (directly accessible through the second basement)

Tokyo Metro Nanboku Line: N06 Tameike-sanno Station, Exit 7 (directly accessible through the second basement)

Tokyo Metro Chiyoda Line: C07 Kokkai-gijido-mae Station, Exit 5 (3 minutes’ walk)

Tokyo Metro Marunouchi Line: M14 Kokkai-gijido-mae Station, Exit 5 (10 minutes’ walk through Chiyoda Line platform)

Partner

Hiroki Awahara

Hiroki Awahara

TEL +81-3-5511-3228 / FAX +81-3-5511-3258

Languages
Japanese、English
Bar Association /
Qualification
Japan (2000), New York (2008), California (2009)

Background

1999
The University of Tokyo (leave without diploma)
2000
Admitted in Japan (Dai-ni Tokyo Bar Association)
Ushijima & Partners
2007
Cornell Law School (LL.M.)
2008
Admitted in New York
Partner, Ushijima & Partners
2009
Admitted in California

Awards

A “leading individual” in the Real Estate and Construction practice area in The Legal 500 Asia Pacific 2022 (January 2022)
Selected in the Real Estate Law practice area in The Best Lawyers™ in Japan 2022 (April 2021)
A “leading individual” in the Real Estate and Construction practice area in The Legal 500 Asia Pacific 2021 (January 2021)
A “leading individual” in the Real Estate and Construction practice area in The Legal 500 Asia Pacific 2020 (January 2020)
Selected in the Real Estate practice area, in The Best Lawyers™ in Japan 2020 (April 2019)
Worked on significant matters listed in the Real Estate and Construction practice area in Legal 500 Asia Pacific 2019 (January 2019)
Introduced as “regularly acting for banks, investment companies and asset managers” in the “Real Estate and Construction” practice area in Legal 500 Asia Pacific 2018 (November 2017)
Introduced as acting for various clients in securitization and financing transactions in the Real Estate practice area in Legal 500 Asia Pacific 2017 (November 2016)

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Publications

“Practical measures for the Amended Real Estate Specified Joint Enterprise Act – in Real Estate Securitization Business” (under joint authorship, Taisei Publishing Co., Ltd., 2014)

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Articles, etc.

“Legal Issues on Real Estate Securitization after the Great East Japan Earthquake” (Japan Business Law Review 2012 -Real Estate) (ILS Publications, Inc.)