Local Partner, Tokyo, White & Case
She regularly advises fund managers, fund service providers, investors and financial institutions on cross-border fund structuring, fund management and related operational matters, downstream investments and divestments, financing, as well as various regulatory matters. She also has experience in advising real estate investors, developers and data centre owners / operators on development, investment and divestment of or financing to the real estate assets or the relevant projects.
Sayako actively advises various clients on sustainable finance-related legal issues, advising on EU sustainable finance-related regulations and compliance matters, including SFDR and the Taxonomy Regulation.
She received mention in the Investment Funds Japan section of The Legal 500 Asia Pacific, which noted that Sayako “has a deep knowledge of and good experience in the structuring and execution of offshore investment fund transactions.”