Amiko Sudo focuses on international corporate and financial transactions, including energy, infrastructure and project finance, and equipment and facility leasing transactions. Since joining White & Case in 2003, she has been working in the Tokyo and New York offices of White & Case.

Ms. Sudo has assisted various clients based in Asia, US, Latin America, Middle East and Europe. Representative transactions include: 

• advising lessors and lenders in Japanese Operating Lease (JOL) transactions; 
• advising lessees, lessors and lenders in the restructuring of operating and finance leases, including the UAL and Delta bankruptcy cases; 
• assisting clients in the establishment and liquidation of off-shore special purpose companies; 
• advising shareholders in joint venture and revenue sharing transactions in relation to real estate investment, equipment financing and joint development programs; 
• advising parties in connection with the merger of two major leasing companies in Japan; 
• advising lenders, borrowers, airlines and leasing companies in export credit agency supported financings including guarantees by Japan Bank for International Cooperation, Export-Import Bank of the United States and the European export credit agencies (including ECGD, COFACE and Euler Hermes) in connection with asset and project financings; 
• advising EPC contractors, sponsors and risk participants on project financings in Latin America, Middle East and Asia; and 
• advising owners and lenders in ship financing transactions.

Bars and Courts
New York State Bar

Education
LLM, College of William and Mary Law School
LLB, University of Tokyo

Languages
English
Japanese

Citizenship
Japan