Takahisa Watanabe
Corporate Managing Associate, Tokyo
Overview
Professional experience
Education and qualifications
Published works
Overview
Takahisa Watanabe is a Managing Associate with extensive experience advising on a range of transactions, including cross-border mergers and acquisitions, management integration, corporate restructuring, tender offer acquisitions, management buyouts, and joint ventures. In recent years, he has also focused on sustainability and impact investing, and serves as the Asia-Pacific Regional Board Member of the Global Alliance of Impact Lawyers.
Professional experience
APAC Regional Board Member of Global Alliance of Impact Lawyers.
Social impact related activity
- Global Alliance of Impact Lawyers (GAIL): Elected as an Asia Pacific Regional Board Member of GAIL.
Probono activity
- Impact Start-up Association, Inc.: providing pro bono support for the legal aspects of running the organization.
- B Market Builder Japan: providing pro bono support for the establishment of B Market Builder Japan, the official partner in Japan of B Lab Global.
Seminar
- Kinyu Zaimu Kenkyukai: Recent Developments in Tender Offer: Perspectives and Key Points for Each Stakeholder.
- Finance Facsimile News and Kinyu Zaimu Kenkyukai: Latest Global and Domestic Trends and Practices in Impact Investing - A Comprehensive Guide from Investment Methods and Processes, Design, and Contract Terms to Exit Strategies.
- GAIL Asia Pacific: The Growing Convergence of B Corp Certification and Impact Investing in Asia.
Education and qualifications
Takahisa holds a Master of Business Administration from the University of Oxford, Saïd Business School. He also obtained a Master of Laws from the University of California, Berkeley. For his undergraduate degree, he studied law at Keio University.
Published works
- Thomson Reuters: Practical Law Global Guide: Public Mergers and Acquisitions (Japan Chapter)
- Junkan Keirijoho No.1648: Detailed Explanation Based on Recent Practice: Key Points for Each Stakeholder in MBO Implementation
- Junkan Keirijoho No.1604: Consideration of Fairness Assurance Measures in MBOs, Taking into Account of Practices After the Publication of M&A Guidelines