Masato Yamanaka

Masato Yamanaka is a partner at Koma Glocal Law Office in Tokyo, working in financial law and regulatory matters. His practice includes litigation concerning financial products as well as regulation affecting financial institutions and other companies. The firm's profile also identifies securitization, collective investment schemes, securities-market disclosure and derivatives among his areas of work. It describes art law as a more recent part of his practice.

His writing examines particular financial transactions and the rules governing them. A two-part contribution to Business Law Journal in January and February 2018 addressed defense strategies in U.S. securities class actions. Another article, published in Trust Forum in March 2016, considered legal issues and practical points concerning life insurance trusts. His bibliography also includes a coauthored study of regulatory action involving exchangeable bonds and the provision of special benefits, published in March 2003.

Yamanaka's educational background includes law studies at Waseda University in 1996 and completion of an LL.M. at the University of Pennsylvania Law School in 2009. His professional directory profile lists affiliations with the Daini Tokyo Bar Association, the New York State Bar and the Washington, D.C., Bar. It records the firm's welcome of Yamanaka in January 2018 and identifies his earlier experience as a partner at Baker & McKenzie. Koma Glocal Law Office is based in the Akasaka Park Building in Tokyo's Minato ward.