Naoko Watanabe
Biography
Naoko Watanabe is a corporate counsel in Baker McKenzie's Los Angeles office. She is a native Japanese speaker and has worked as a buyer in Japan at Bridgestone Corporation and Honda Motor Co. Ltd. Prior to joining the Firm, Naoko was a corporate associate in a large international law firm, representing clients in public and private mergers and acquisitions and joint ventures. She has received the California Lawyer Attorneys of the Year award from the Daily Journal.
Practice Focus
Naoko’s practice focuses on assisting multinational companies with the planning and implementation of complex global corporate reorganization transactions, including post-acquisition integrations, pre-transaction separations and spin-offs, entity rationalizations and tax-driven restructurings. In addition, Naoko advises clients on establishing operations outside the United States.
Representative Legal Matters
- Advised a global networking solutions company in connection with multiple post-acquisition integration projects.
- Advised multiple publicly traded multinational companies on the planning and implementation of pre-divestiture cash repatriation exercises.
- Advised a publicly traded semiconductor company on pre-transaction integrations.
- Advised companies on a variety of legal entity as well as debt rationalization projects.
Admissions
- California~United States (2014)
Education
- UCLA School of Law (J.D.) (2014)
- Keio University (LL.B.) (2004)
Languages
- English
- Japanese
Previous Offices
- Palo Alto
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