Biography • Banking

Isao Shindo is a partner at Anderson Mori & Tomotsune, with a long history of representing a large number of Japanese and foreign financial firms with respect to various aspects of their businesses in Japan.

He has been involved principally in the fields of banking, securities, derivatives, insurance, asset management as well as structured finance and securitisation, with emphasis on regulatory matters including advice on new financial products and on inspections of financial institutions by regulators. He also assists non-Japanese clients in establishing their businesses for financial services in Japan and obtaining regulatory licenses as well as international and domestic M&A projects of financial institutions. He is a pioneer in the area of regulatory advice for non-Japanese banks on integration of multiple business platforms in Japan. He has been engaged on a number of occasions by groups of non-Japanese financial institutions such as International Bankers Association, Tokyo, to prepare standard templates of agreements and regulatory documents. He has leveraged his experience in regulatory areas to expand his fields to securitisation and structured finance, with particular emphasis on representation of a number of trust banks.

Isao Shindo is a graduate of the University of Tokyo (LLB, 1983) and was appointed as assistant professor of the university in administrative law (1983-1986). After graduating Harvard Law School (LLM, 1987), he worked as an associate at Cravath, Swaine & Moore (1988). He is admitted to the bar in Japan and New York.