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Seishi Ikeda
Seishi Ikeda
Baker & McKenzie (Gaikokuho Joint Enterprise)
Tokyo




Partner
+ 81 3 6271 9444

Seishi Ikeda has been a partner in the Firm’s Tokyo office since 2004 and has more than fifteen years of legal experience handling investment banks, listed companies and funds in the areas of banking and finance and capital markets. He has participated in several seminars related to his field and periodically holds study sessions at securities companies. Mr. Ikeda has also co-authored several publications, including the M&A Handbook on Conducting Business Practically. He practiced with Aoki & Partners in 1999, Sidley Austin Brown & Wood in New York from 2000 to 2001 and Linklaters in London in 2001.

Practice Focus

Mr. Ikeda’s practice covers shares, preferred shares and convertible bonds issuance and offering transactions, both at the domestic and international level. He has handled Euro CB offerings, domestic listing matters and IPO by Japanese companies, including global offerings and samurai bond offerings. Mr. Ikeda is experienced in handling M&A deals, real estate securitization, non-recourse loan, derivatives, trust-related deals and regular corporate work, as well as compliance issues, including insider and regulatory matters. In addition, Mr. Ikeda is skilled in handling securities-related litigation matters and various disclosure and compliance issues involving listed companies and their directors.

Representative Legal Matters

  • Advised various clients on domestic IPOs, global offerings, issuance of Samurai bonds by foreign investment banks, real estate finance and securitization of various types of real estate using a TMK structure and trust scheme, TOB finance, cross-border M&A and large securities-related litigations.

Professional Associations and Memberships

  • Dai-ichi Tokyo Bar Association

Admission

New York~United States (2001)
Japan (1994)

Education

Emory University  (LL.M.) (2000)
Legal Research & Training Inst of Supreme Court of Japan (1994)
University of Tokyo  (LL.B.) (1991)

Baker & McKenzie (Gaikokuho Joint Enterprise) is a member of Baker & McKenzie International, a Swiss Verein.
Co-Author, "Amendments to the Law on Securitization of Assets in 2011 and its effect on real estate securitization practice," NBL, Shojihomu, January 2012, Language: Japanese

Co-author, "M&A Handbook on Conducting Business Practically," Chuokeizai-sha, June 2010, Language: Japanese

Co-author, "Q&A Financial Instruments and Exchange Law," Sanseido, 2008

Author, “Financial Instruments and Exchange Law (Disclosure Standard),” Nikkei Business Online, 2007

Author, “The Emergence of New Trends,” The Euromoney, International Equity Capital Markets Handbook, 2005/06
 
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