Hiroshi Kasuya
Biography
Hiroshi Kasuya helps clients with legal issues related to restructuring and insolvency, mergers and acquisitions and corporate reorganization. He also has extensive experience representing a variety of clients in litigation and other forms of dispute resolution. Hiroshi serves as a member of the Steering Committee of Baker McKenzie’s Global Restructuring & Insolvency Group.
Hiroshi has been recognized as a leading professional in the area of restructuring and insolvency in Japan by Chambers Asia-Pacific (2022-present), The Legal 500 (2020-present), Lexology Index (formerly Who’s Who Legal) (2025), Global Restructuring Review (Names to Know in Japan) (2024) and The Best Lawyers in Japan (2021-present).
Practice Focus
Hiroshi focuses his practice on cross-border and domestic corporate restructuring and insolvency, debt collection (including enforcement of judgements and securities), mergers and acquisitions and corporate reorganization. He also has extensive experience representing clients in a number of different industries and fields in various types of dispute resolution proceedings.
Representative Legal Matters
- Represented a domestically listed sporting goods company in its acquisition of a listed golf goods company.
- Represented a major private equity fund in its takeover bid for a domestically listed apparel company.
- Represented a domestic life insurance company in its insolvency proceedings under the Japanese Corporate Reorganization Act.
- Represented a major Japanese financial company in connection with its insolvency proceedings under the Japanese Civil Rehabilitation Act.
- Represented the Japanese subsidiary of a US semiconductor manufacturer in connection with insolvency proceedings under the Japanese Corporate Reorganization Act in parallel with Chapter 11 proceedings filed by its parent company.
- Represented creditor companies with respect to large cross-border insolvency cases and out-of-court workouts.
- Advised Japanese companies in connection with the cross-border insolvency case of a major shipping company in South Korea.
- Acted for a nuclear power company as Japanese legal counsel in connection with the company's global insolvency and restructuring.
- Represented a major auto parts maker with respect to its civil rehabilitation case and global restructuring and advised the client in connection with proceedings under chapters 11 and 15 of the US Bankruptcy Code and other foreign insolvency proceedings.
- Represented a major foreign airline company as debtor counsel in filing a petition with the Tokyo District Court to seek recognition of and assistance with the company's foreign reorganization proceeding pursuant to the Act on Recognition of and Assistance for Foreign Insolvency Proceedings.
- Represented a domestic airline company as debtor counsel in filing a petition for commencement of bankruptcy proceedings.
Professional Associations and Memberships
- Daini Tokyo Bar Association - Member
- American Bankruptcy Institute (ABI) - Member
- INSOL International - Member
- Japanese Federation of Insolvency Professionals - Member
- East Asian Association of Insolvency & Restructuring - Member
Admissions
- New York~United States (2012)
- Japan (2000)
Education
- St. John's University, School of Law (LLM Bankruptcy) (2012)
- University of California, Berkeley School of Law (LLM) (2011)
- Waseda University (Master's Degree Finance) (2006)
- Waseda University (LLB) (1997)
Languages
- English
- Japanese
Baker & McKenzie (Gaikokuho Joint Enterprise) is a member of Baker & McKenzie International, a Swiss Verein.