Member Profiles

Maurizio Lupoi graduated from Rome University School of Law magna cum laude and went on to further studies at Oxford, Cornell and Paris. He then joined the firm his father had founded in the Thirties, of which he is now the Senior Partner: Studio legale Lupoi. In the Eighties the firm opened a branch in New York and Maurizio was admitted to the Bar there as a Foreign Legal Consultant. In the meantime Maurizio pursued an academic career and was appointed Full Professor at Perugia University. He later moved to Genoa University and taught Comparative Law and Trust Law there until his retirement in 2012. His textbook on trusts was translated and published in English by Cambridge University Press (2000).

Lawyer with consolidated experience in corporate finance. He has formed his experience in Venture Capital, M&A and Private Equity transactions, assisting corporate clients in extraordinary merger and acquisition transactions, as well as institutional investors in real estate, private equity and venture capital transactions. He has participated as a speaker and expert in the corporate finance sector at various conferences organized by prestigious Italian universities. He has taught at the MIP Politecnico di Milano in matters of Corporate Finance, Private Equity and Venture Capital. He dealt, among other things, with important restructuring operations, structuring of investment schemes for leading private equity funds and operations in the renewable energy sector. He has collaborated with public institutions in a project aimed at acquiring bank impaired loans.

Admitted Japan (1977) and New York (1982) Bar Association Daini Tokyo Bar Association, New York State Bar Association Education The University of Tokyo (LL.B., 1974) The Legal Training and Research Institute of the Supreme Court of Japan New York University School of Law (M.C.J., 1981) Publications "Growth Strategy 2017: Fine-tuning Japan's Banking Act for Fintech," Who's Who Legal: Japan 2017, Law Business Research Ltd. (2017)  [Co-author] Theory and Practice of TMKs- Asset Liquidation Using TMKs, Kinzai Institute for Financial Affairs (2009) [Co-author] "Securtisation 2008/09 Country Q&A Japan"PLC Cross-border Handbooks: Finance Volume 2, Practical Law Company (2008) [Co-author] "Secured Lending 2008/09 Country Q&A Japan" PLC Cross-border Handbooks: Finance Volume 1, Practical Law Company (2008) [Co-Author] "Japan Overview" The Legal Media Group Guide to the World’s Leading Structured Finance and Securitization Lawyers, IFLR (2007) [Co-author] "Secured Lending 2007/08 Country Q&A Japan"PLC Cross-border Handbooks, Practical Law Company (2007) [Co-author] "Legal Aspects (of aircraft registered in Japan)" Airfinance Annual 2002/2003 [Co-author] "Legal Aspects of PFI Financing in Japan" Japan Now Open For Business, The Essential Investment Guide From Asia Law & Practice (1999) "A case of securitisation of bank loan assets in U.K.- Structure of Rose Fund" NBL No.618, Shojihomu (1997) "Legal Aspects of aircraft registered in Japan" Airfinance Annual 1994/95 "Opinion on asset-backed CP - Discussion on taxation in connection with securitisation overseas of domestic debt obligations" NBL No. 517, Shojihomu (1993) "Relative rules for securitisation in the Cayman Islands" (Translation in Japanese) NBL No. 529, Shojihomu (1993) New Amendment Strengthens Shareholder Control" Asia Law (August, 1993) "International Banking, Japan" International Financial Law Review, Special Supplement (September, 1992) Web Articles "Capacity to Find Solutions to a Wide Range of Complex Issues Borne out of Many Years of Practicing Diversity -Atsumi & Sakai-," Bengo4.com Career (April 2023) [Interview] Seminars "Legal Issues associated with Securing Lease Receivables in Japanese Leveraged Lease Transactions—From the Lenders' Viewpoint", March 14, 1994, organized by the Business Law Institute (Shoji-Homu-Kenkyu-Kai)

Toshio Miyatake is an attorney-at-law and a partner of Adachi Henderson Miyatake & Fujita in Tokyo. He has more than 30 years' experience in international tax practice. His tax practice ranges from tax planning to handling of tax audits, tax litigation and mutual agreement procedure in various tax fields. Especially, he handles a considerable number of transfer pricing cases. Toshio is a graduate (LLB) of Kyoto University and holds an MCL from the University of Washington School of Law. He taught Japanese international taxation at Harvard Law School as a visiting professor in 1983, and taught at the Law Faculty of Sophia University and the Chuo University Graduate Course of Accounting for a number of years. He also writes and lectures extensively. His writings include the textbook Kokusai Sozei Ho (International Tax Law) in Japanese and various tax articles in Japanese and English. Toshio is a member of the Second Tokyo Bar Association and the Federation of Japanese Bars. He is the former chairman of the Japanese Branch of the International Fiscal Association (IFA) and served on the executive committee of the IFA from 1994 to 2006. He is also a former chairman of the Tax System Committee of the Federation of Japanese Bars, the Taxation and Legislation Committee of the American Chamber of Commerce in Japan and the Tax Law Committee of the Inter-Pacific Bar Association. He is a member of the International Fiscal Association, the International Bar Association, the Inter-Pacific Bar Association, the Japan Tax Association, the Japanese Society for Tax Law, the Japan Tax Accounting Association and the Tax System Committee of the Federation of Japanese Bars.

Admitted Japan (2002) and New York (2000) Bar Association Dai-ichi Tokyo Bar Association Education The University of Tokyo (LL.B., 1996) Harvard Law School（International Tax Program, 2000） The Legal Training and Research Institute of the Supreme Court of Japan Background Ministry of Home Affairs (April 1996-March 2001) Nishimura & Asahi (October 2002-May 2010） Anderson Mori & Tomotsune (June 2010-May 2014) EY Law Co. (June 2014-July 2017) DT Legal Japan (August 2017-May 2021)