Professionals > Hiroshi HORI

Hiroshi Hori is one of the founding partner of Marunouchi Kokusai Law Office ("MKLO").  Hiroshi is qualified to practice law in both Japan and the United States (New York).  He specializes in financial regulations including securities regulations, asset management regulations and banking regulations, and financial transactions including securitization, real estate financing and investment funds.  
Prior to launching MKLO in 2012, Hiroshi worked at Nishimura & Asahi, advising a wide variety of foreign and domestic financial institutions and other clients on negotiations with financial authorities and providing counseling on compliance with relevant regulations applicable to the financial transactions or financial institutions.  In addition, Hiroshi has extensive experience structuring transactions as well as drafting transaction documents (in both English and Japanese), including asset purchase agreements, loan agreements and bond documents.
During his career at Nishimura & Asahi, he was seconded to the position of deputy director at the Japanese Financial Services Agency (FSA) from 2005 to 2007.  While Hiroshi was working at the FSA, he served on the team that reformed the Japanese securities law into the new Financial Instruments and Exchange Act of 2006 and drafted the relevant government ordinances and regulations in 2007.

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