Naoki Ueyama
Naoki Ueyama advises investment funds, Japanese and international investors, and financial institutions on transactions related to real estate, real estate finance, structured finance, and acquisition finance. Naoki works with clients on green financings and, through his efforts, he helped secure the first green loan and the first sustainability-linked loan used to finance data center developments in Japan. He is fluent in English and Japanese.
Prior to joining Morgan Lewis, Naoki spent more than 20 years at other leading international and Japan-based law firms. He served as the assistant vice president of a Japanese bank prior to entering private practice.
- A Singaporean holding company and a private company on the proposed combination of the businesses of the two entities
- An international real estate developer with over $32 billion in gross assets under management as lead counsel on the Japanese legal aspects of a joint venture for a platform to acquire portfolios of residential assets in Japan
- Foreign investors in investment in real properties (including nonperforming mortgage loan portfolios and hotel acquisitions) and financing through GK-TK (a silent partnership agreement (tokumei kumiai keiyaku)) scheme and TMK (a special purpose company (tokutei mokuteki kaisha)) scheme
- Japanese and international financial institutions in making non-recourse securitizable loans secured by real properties and nonperforming mortgage loan portfolios in Japan
- Japanese banks in making acquisition finance, including MBO/LBO finance and share acquisition finance
- Borrowers in finance transactions, including LBO finance, share acquisition finance, and corporate finance
- Assisted the first real estate non-recourse loan of a major Japanese bank
- University of Pennsylvania Law School, 1992, LL.M.
- University of Tokyo, 1987, LL.B.
- Japan (Bengoshi)
- New York

Listed, Real Estate and Construction: International Firms and Joint Ventures, Japan (2024)
Listed, Chambers Asia-Pacific, Real Estate: Bengoshi – Japan, Band 4 (2010–2016, 2024–2025)
