Aya Kurahashi is a founding partner of Kaynex Law Offices who brings with her extensive experience gained from working at several leading international law firms.
She advises both international and Japanese domestic clients on a broad range of business transactions, including finance transactions.
Aya focuses on finance transactions and has extensive experience with the securitization of various assets, such as real estate and trade receivables, capital markets (including the first CMBS issued in Japan after the collapse of Lehman Brothers), cross-border acquisition finance, cross-border secured and unsecured financing, and restructuring. She has also provided legal advice on novel structures for unprecedented finance transactions on many occasions.
Professional Admissions: Japan (2005)
Education and Professional Career:
2001 Keio University, Faculty of Law, LL.B.
2005 – 2008 Paul Hastings Tokyo office
2008 – 2011 Allen & Overy Tokyo office
2012 – 2015 White & Case Tokyo office
2016 – Kaynex Law Offices
Kaynex Law Offices was established in January 2016 by a lawyer with over 25 years’ experience at both Japanese and international leading law firms and three other lawyers, each with over 10 years’ experience at leading international law firms. Drawing on a wealth of specialist knowledge and extensive experience gained from involvement in many domestic and cross-border transactions, Kaynex’s innovative legal services model sets it apart from conventional law firms.
Working across diverse domestic and cross-border matters, Kaynex’s high-level expertise means it can provide swift, commercially practical and flexible legal services that are specifically tailored to clients’ individual needs.
Our team of lawyers have collaborated exceptionally well on many matters to date. Kaynex’s clients experience exceptional levels of satisfaction thanks to such effective teamwork and the synergy that is born from the integration of their individual specialist expertise.
