Toshio Dokei has practiced as a licensed Japanese attorney (Bengoshi) since 1994, after he served as an assistant judge for eight years. He also passed the New York bar examination. He has broad experience in financial transactions, especially project finance and acquisition finance, M&A, as well as general corporate matters. His banking practice includes, among others, representation of financial institutions for (i) cross-border investments by public financial institutions, (ii) export credit agency (ECA) finance, especially in the context of project finance, and (iii) syndicated loans both in foreign markets and the Japanese market.

Mr. Dokei is also an experienced competition lawyer, and has represented clients in unfair trade practice cases before the Japan Fair Trade Commission (including abuse of superior bargaining position and resale price maintenance claims) and in multijurisdictional cartel matters. He is a graduate of the University of Tokyo Law Faculty and the Legal Research and Training Institute of the Supreme Court of Japan, and he obtained an LL.M. degree from University of Michigan Law School. He speaks Japanese and English.

Bars and Courts
Japan Bar, 1994
Assistant Judge, 1986

Education
LLM, University of Michigan Law School, 1997
LLB, University of Tokyo, 1984

Publications
"A New Approach to Secured Syndicated Loans Through the Parallel Debt Structure – How Foreign Countries are applying the Structure and Its Positioning in the Japanese Legal System" (NBL No. 952, May 1, 2011 and No. 953, May 15, 2011) (Co-author)
"The Practice of the Reform of the Corporate Governance" (Nihon Keizai Shinbunsha, March 2003) (Co-editor)
"The Reform of the Commercial Code and Practice" (Nihon Keizai Shinbunsha, March 2002) (Co-author)
"Effects of Globalization on Japanese Judiciary" The Role of the Judiciary in Changing Societies (Japanese Association of Sociology of Law, June 2001)
"In re General Motors Class H Shareholders Litigation" Amerikaho (Japanese American Society for Legal Studies, January 2001)

Languages
English
Japanese

Citizenship
Japan