Keiko Horino focuses her practice mainly on finance, business rehabilitation, and mergers and acquisitions. With respect to finance, Ms. Horino advises on various types of structured financing and project financing as well as all kinds of financial regulations (including financial instruments law and banking law), and more recently, on dealing with legal regulations applicable to FinTech. In her business rehabilitation practice, Ms. Horino handles a wide range of matters, including winding-up, legal reconstruction proceedings (civil rehabilitation proceedings and corporate reorganization proceedings), and legal liquidation proceedings (bankruptcy proceedings). Based upon her abundant experience in finance-related legal matters, Ms. Horino addresses business rehabilitation cases not only from the standpoint of the debtor but also from the standpoint of the creditor. Ms. Horino is also an author of books and articles regarding business rehabilitation and teaches the law of trusts to law school students.
Work Highlights
Financing of the development of a large-scale solar power plant
Development of large-scale commercial facilities, hotels, condominiums, and office buildings by a major Japanese company
Liquidation of claims held by a Japanese consumer loan company
Private finance initiative of large-scale medical center business, meal supply center business, etc.
Winding-up and civil rehabilitation of listed companies (real estate developers)
Civil rehabilitation and corporate reorganization of Japanese golf courses
Bankruptcy trustee of a major Japanese trading company
Bankruptcy trustee of a major Japanese coffee shop chain
Education & Professional Career
Jan 2013 – Present
Kitahama Partners, Partner
Oct 2005
Graduated from the Legal Training and Research Institute of the Supreme Court of Japan; Admitted to practice in Japan; Joined Kitahama Partners
Mar 2004
Osaka University (LL.B.)
Other Activities
2021 – Present
Member, Auxiliary organization assessment committee in Osaka city
2021 – Present
Visiting Professor (Trust Law), Osaka University Law School
2017 – Present
Person to provide conciliation seeking service, Mediation Center Osaka
2012 – 2021
Adjunct Professor, Osaka University Law School (Trust Act)
2009 – Present
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Osaka University of Economics, Graduate School (Trust Act)
Memberships
Japan Association of the Law of Trusts
The Japanese Association of Real Estate Financial Engineering
National Network of Insolvency Attorneys
Japanese Association for Business Recovery
Japanese Association of Turnaround Professionals
Center for Trusts, Japan Federation of Bar Associations
Backup Team in the Trusts Law Subcommittee of the Legislative Council, Civil Subcommittee of the Research Commission on the Judiciary System, Japan Federation of Bar Associations
Judicial System Committee in charge of Insolvency Law Division and Trust Law Division, Osaka Bar Association
