White & Case LLP - Lawyers - Christopher P. Wells

Practice Experience

Christopher Wells, has worked as a lawyer in Japan since 1983, concentrating in financing and banking transactions, including cross-border securities offers, credit financings and syndications, equipment financings and securitization transactions.

Mr. Wells' practice currently focuses on the establishment, operation and licensing of investment funds and fund-related investment intermediaries in Japan.

Mr. Wells also assists multinational financial groups generally with issues related to regulatory compliance and license qualification matters in Japan. Mr. Wells' corporate experience includes representations in connection with the formation and subsequent operation of several of the largest multi-jurisdictional joint ventures in Japan. He also has assisted numerous United States, French, German, and other foreign international corporate groups in the establishment of business presences in Japan.

Mr. Wells has been the chair or co-chair of the Financial Services Committee of the American Chamber of Commerce in Japan since 1998. In that capacity he coordinates the activities of various subcommittees covering the securities, banking and finance, investment management, insurance, private equity, real estate finance, pension and securitization and ratings industries in Japan.

Bars and Courts
Tokyo Bar Association, Gaikokuho Jimu Bengoshi, 1987
Federation of Japanese Bar Associations (Nichibenren), Gaikokuho Jimu Bengoshi, 1987
US District Court for the Central District of California
US District Court for the Northern District of California
California State Bar, 1979

Education
JD, University of California, Los Angeles, (Editor-in-Chief, UCLA-Alaska Law Review, 1977-1978), 1979
MBA, University of California, Los Angeles, 1979
BA, University of Rochester, 1975

Publications
EDITORIAL RESPONSIBILITIES:
Supervising Editor, Japan Financial Translations, Inc.

ARTICLES:
"Japanese Business Law Chapter 14: Financial Services and Regulation" edited by Gerald Paul McAlinn, published by Kluwer Law International, February 2008
"Copyright Council Issues Interim Enforcement Report," World Intellectual Property Report, May 1995
"Calling Time on Illegal Payments in Japan," International Financial Law Review, April 1995
"Escrow Set Up for Demands to Seize Pirate Brands, Knock Off Products," World Intellectual Property Report, March 1995
"Government Revises Major IP Laws to Meet Commitments Under GATT," World Intellectual Property Report, February 1995
"U.S. Responds to Multimedia Proposal; BSA Launches Anti Piracy Campaign," World Intellectual Property Report, January 1995
"Using Patents to Control Parallel Imports in Japan," World Intellectual Property Report, December 1994
"Reforms Give Increased Freedom to Japan's Banking Sector," International Financial Law Review, April 1994
"Japan's New Receivables Securitization Law," Butterworths Journal of International Banking and Financial Law, 1993

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Languages
English
Japanese

Citizenship
United States