Hideyuki Sakai is managing partner of the Tokyo office, Bingham McCutchen Murase, Sakai Mimura Aizawa – Foreign Law Joint Enterprise. Hideyuki founded Sakai & Mimura in 1995. He is one of Japan’s leading authorities in insolvency and financial restructuring and was selected by Chambers Asia 2009 as the leading restructuring and insolvency lawyer in Tokyo with a standalone “Band 1” listing for the second consecutive year. He is also co-chair of the firm’s global Financial Restructuring Group (Asia head).

Hideyuki’s practice includes international mergers and acquisitions, licensing and joint venture agreements, establishment of operations for foreign entities and financial institutions, complex commercial litigation, insolvency, workouts, bankruptcy, civil rehabilitation, special liquidation, and other proceedings involving insolvency procedures around the world, advice for out-of-court workout guidelines and advice for shareholder meeting governance.