{"id":693,"date":"2019-06-26T06:51:42","date_gmt":"2019-06-25T21:51:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kitahama.or.jp\/english\/?post_type=professional&#038;p=693"},"modified":"2026-03-23T18:17:53","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T09:17:53","slug":"makoto-fujiwara","status":"publish","type":"professional","link":"https:\/\/www.kitahama.or.jp\/english\/professionals\/makoto-fujiwara\/","title":{"rendered":"Makoto Fujiwara"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Makoto Fujiwara has been mainly working on cases in the area of corporate rehabilitation and insolvency. As attorney for debtors of corporate rehabilitation cases, Mr. Fujiwara has been providing advisory services relating to private liquidation matters as well as legal liquidation matters, such as corporate rehabilitation cases (Corporate Rehabilitation Trustee Representative and Examiner Assistant) and civil rehabilitation cases (Attorney for the petitioner and Audit Assistant), and has been handling a number of liquidation cases as a bankruptcy trustee. Moreover, he has been widely engaged in general corporate matters including the provision of guidance on general shareholders&#8217; meetings, insurance, labor law and various types of litigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Work Highlights<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kitahama.or.jp\/english\/news\/4852\/\">Sponsorship Type Out-of-Court Workout of a Photography Studio<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kitahama.or.jp\/english\/news\/4831\/\">Court Appointed Trustee for the Corporate Reorganization Proceedings of a Company Engaged in the Civil Engineering Construction and Heavy Machinery Business<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Corporate rehabilitation case of a leading Japanese enterprise (construction industry) (Corporate Rehabilitation Trustee Representative)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Corporate rehabilitation case of a leading Japanese enterprise (transport industry) (DIP style financing, Examiner Assistant)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Civil rehabilitation case of a leading Japanese enterprise (real estate developer) (Attorney for the petitioner)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Civil rehabilitation case of a Japanese enterprise (importing and distribution business) (Audit Assistant)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Private liquidation matter for a Japanese enterprise (service industry) (advisory services for debtors)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Education \uff06 Professional Career<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table><tbody><tr><td>Jan 2015 &#8211; Present<\/td><td>Kitahama Partners, Partner<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Jan 2008<\/td><td>Joined Kitahama Partners <\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Dec 2007<\/td><td>Graduated from the Legal Training and Research Institute of the Supreme Court of Japan; Admitted to practice in Japan<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Mar 2006<\/td><td>Kyoto University Law School (J.D.)<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Mar 2004<\/td><td>Kyoto University (LL.B.)<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Other Activities<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table><tbody><tr><td>2023 \u2013 Present<\/td><td>Outside Audit and Supervisory Committee Member, PHYZ Holdings Inc.<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>2022 \u2013 Present&nbsp;<\/td><td>Outside Auditor, Nasa Home Co., Ltd.<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>2019 \u2013 2023<\/td><td>Outside Auditor, PHYZ Holdings Inc.<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>2016 \u2013 2019<\/td><td>Outside Auditor, PHYZ Inc.<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>2014 &#8211; Present<\/td><td>Counselor, Boundary Issue Counseling Center of Osaka, Osaka Land and Buildings Investigators Association<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Memberships<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>National Network of Insolvency Attorneys<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Judicial System Committee; Osaka Bar Association (Insolvency Law Division)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Bankruptcy Practice Networking<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":26,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-693","professional","type-professional","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Makoto Fujiwara - partner - Kitahama Partners<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Makoto Fujiwara has been mainly working on cases in the area of corporate rehabilitation and insolvency. 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