Lisa Yano Joins Morgan Lewis's Tokyo Office
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03/01/2007 -
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Tokyo, Japan, March 1, 2007: Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP is pleased to announce that Lisa Yano has joined the firm as Co-Managing Partner of the Tokyo office and as Co-Managing Partner of Morgan Lewis–TMI (the firm's joint venture in Japan with TMI Associates). While practicing in Tokyo for more than 15 years, Ms. Yano has represented Japanese companies in a broad range of cross-border corporate and financing transactions and also regularly assists U.S. and other overseas companies in their activities in Japan. Her practice focuses on mergers and acquisitions, private equity transactions, joint ventures, financing, and intellectual property transactions.
"Lisa's experience will allow us to build upon our success in Japan," said Philip Werner, Managing Partner for Morgan Lewis's international and transactional practices. "She further enhances our abilities to serve clients globally by bringing her strong reputation to our Tokyo office, and to our Morgan Lewis–TMI joint venture," he continued.
Ms. Yano observes that, "Few foreign firms in Japan have the depth and breadth of Morgan Lewis's expertise across such a wide range of practice areas. This, combined with the tremendous resources of TMI Associates through the Morgan Lewis–TMI joint venture, creates a unique and very exciting platform for handling cross-border transactions involving Japan."
Ms. Yano also serves as a visiting professor at the University of Tokyo School of Law, teaching courses on U.S. contract and intellectual property law. She graduated from Yale Law School (J.D., 1985) and from Kean College of New Jersey (B.A., summa cum laude, 1980). Ms. Yano was most recently managing partner of the Tokyo office of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP.
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