17 September 2019 - Events
Yoshiyuki Omori
Partner, Withers Bengoshi Houjin** | Tokyo
*Withers Bengoshi Houjin is organised as a local partnership, under the Japanese Civil Code, whose partners are only Japanese qualified lawyers (bengoshi) and non-Japanese lawyers (attorneys-at-law admitted in California, Connecticut, Florida, Hawaii and New York) who are registered foreign lawyers in Japan (gaikokuho jimu bengoshi). Yoshiyuki Omori is from Withers Bengoshi Houjin.
Yoshiyuki Omori is a partner in the investment management team of the Tokyo office.
He advises both domestic and foreign financial investment institutions and investment funds on Japanese financial regulations for over 10 years at international law firms in Tokyo.
He has been part of an investment management practice that has historically been recognized as one of the top asset management practices in Japan by AsianInvestor and Chambers.
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Represented numerous financial clients in obtaining regulatory registrations and association memberships in Japan (Type1, Type 2, Investment Management, Investment Advisory and Agency, Remote Membership and various Financial Instruments Dealers Associations) and establishing proper compliance regime
Represented investment funds and managers in making filings required by the regulations in Japan, such as large shareholding report and foreign investment trust/corporation notification under the Investment Trusts and Investment Corporations Act
Represented various international financial institutions including registered investment managers and Type 1 financial instruments business operators in engaging in mock audits to confirm compliance readiness
Dai-ni Tokyo Bar Association, 2005
New York State Bar, 2011
‘Financial Instruments and Exchange Law and Fund Business (Kinyu Shohin Torihikihou to Fund Business)’, The Monetary and Fiscal Circumstances (Kinyu Zaisei Jijyo)
‘Issues of Shareholder’s Meeting in Japanese Company from foreign investor’s perspective (Gaikokujin Toushika no Shiten karamita Nihon kigyo niokeru Kabunusisoukai no Mondaiten)’, The Lawyers
‘The Article 63 Exemption and Investment Manager Licensing for Pro-Investors’, International Tax Review
Dai-ni Tokyo Bar Association
‘Japan Regulatory Update Including Insider Trading Regulations’, Morgan Stanley Workshop – 18 August 2016, co-presenter
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- English
- Japanese
