Japan’s securitization boom keeps specialist lawyers busy

US and UK law firms are collaborating and competing with domestic peers to reap the benefits of the Japanese securitization boom.

Japanese securitization volume has continued to grow rapidly as restructuring of the financial and corporate sectors has assumed ever greater urgency.

This is good news for the few Tokyo-based law firms that have established track records in the speciality. Securitization, and structured finance in general, has been one of the few guaranteed fee-earners in recent months, driven by collateralized debt obligation (CDO) issuance (balance sheet and synthetic) and residential mortgage-backed and commercial mortgage-backed securitizations (RMBS and CMBS).

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