Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP is pleased to announce that Lisa Yano has joined the firm as Co-Managing Partner of the Tokyo office and as Co-Managing Partner of Morgan Lewis–TMI (the firm's joint venture in Japan with TMI Associates). While practicing in Tokyo for more than 15 years, Ms. Yano has represented Japanese companies in a broad range of cross-border corporate and financing transactions and also regularly assists U.S. and other overseas companies in their activities in Japan. Her practice focuses on mergers and acquisitions, private equity transactions, joint ventures, financing, and intellectual property transactions."Lisa's experience will allow us to build upon our success in Japan," said Philip Werner, Managing Partner for Morgan Lewis's international and transactional practices. "She further enhances our abilities to serve clients globally by bringing her strong reputation to our Tokyo office, and to our Morgan Lewis–TMI joint venture," he continued. Ms. Yano observes that, "Few foreign firms in Japan have the depth and breadth of Morgan Lewis's expertise across such a wide range of practice areas. This, combined with the tremendous resources of TMI Associates through the Morgan Lewis–TMI joint venture, creates a unique and very exciting platform for handling cross-border transactions involving Japan." Ms. Yano also serves as a visiting professor at the University of Tokyo School of Law, teaching courses on U.S. contract and intellectual property law. She graduated from Yale Law School (J.D., 1985) and from Kean College of New Jersey (B.A., summa cum laude, 1980). Ms. Yano was most recently managing partner of the Tokyo office of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP. About Morgan Lewis-TMI
Morgan Lewis-TMI is a unique joint venture in Japan formed by Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP and TMI Associates. Morgan Lewis-TMI brings together one of the largest U.S. law firms with the resources to advise Japanese clients on nearly any issue of U.S. or international law, and one of the largest and most diversified Japanese law firms. Morgan Lewis-TMI's lawyers can advise clients on a broad range of legal issues, including corporate, securities, employment, pension, intellectual property and environmental issues. About Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP
Morgan Lewis is a global law firm with more than 1,300 lawyers in 22 offices located in Beijing, Boston, Brussels, Chicago, Dallas, Frankfurt, Harrisburg, Houston, Irvine, London, Los Angeles, Miami, Minneapolis, New York, Palo Alto, Paris, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Princeton, San Francisco, Tokyo, and Washington, D.C. For more information about Morgan Lewis, please visit www.morganlewis.com.
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