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Practice Areas: Ayako Kawano is widely recognised as a leading expert across corporate and real estate transactions, such as acquisitions and dispositions, restructurings, cross-border bankruptcy-related M&A and private equity investments. She is particularly noted for her real estate expertise, including J-REITs, formation of funds, acquisitions and dispositions of assets, complex financings and restructuring of distressed loan and real estate portfolios. Ayako is dual-qualified to practice both Japan and New York law. Ayako is also bilingual in Japanese and English.