Lisa Yano

Partner

Lisa Yano is a partner in Morgan Lewis's Business and Finance Practice. She is also Co-Managing Partner of the firm's Tokyo office and of Morgan Lewis–TMI, the firm’s joint venture in Japan with TMI Associates. Ms. Yano focuses her practice on mergers and acquisitions, private equity transactions, joint ventures, financing and restructuring transactions, telecommunications, licensing, and other technology matters.

Ms. Yano, who speaks Japanese, has practiced in Tokyo for more than 15 years and has represented Japanese companies in a broad range of cross-border corporate and financing transactions. She also regularly assists U.S. and other overseas companies in their activities in Japan. Ms. Yano has been named as a leading individual for corporate/M&A work in the 2006/2007 edition of the Asia Pacific Legal 500 and is included in Euromoney's "Guide to the World's Leading Technology, Media & Telecommunications Lawyers." She is a co-author of Corporate Internal Investigations: An International Guide, published by the Oxford University Press (2008).

Ms. Yano is a visiting professor at the University of Tokyo School of Law, teaching courses on U.S. contract and intellectual property law.

Ms. Yano received her J.D. from Yale Law School in 1985 and her B.A. in economics, summa cum laude, from Kean University in 1980.

Ms. Yano is admitted to practice in New York and California and is registered in Japan as a gaikokuho jimu bengoshi (registered foreign lawyer).