Professional Summary
Mariko Terada is a member of the Tokyo office’s Banking & Finance Practice Group and the Global Healthcare Group. From 2019 to 2020, she was seconded to Baker McKenzie’s Chicago office, where she represented financial institutions and business operators in project financing and renewable energy projects development. She is a member of the Tokyo Bar Association and the New York State Bar.
Practice Focus
Mariko focuses on acquisition finance, leveraged finance, project finance, fintech, infrastructure funds, PFI/PPP and other structured finance transactions. Her practice also covers general banking transactions, including multijurisdictional syndicated loans, lease transactions and regulatory matters.
Representative Clients, Cases or Matters
- Represented a consortium of financial institutions in their establishment of an infrastructure fund for renewable energy projects.
- Represented a consortium of financial institutions in a project finance transaction for a wood-based biomass power project.
- Represented various Japanese and international financial institutions as well as private equity firms in inbound and domestic leveraged finance transactions.
- Represented various Japanese financial institutions in outbound M&A finance transactions.
- Represented various US-, Europe- and Asia Pacific-based financial institutions and tech companies in connection with the launches of their online financial products and platforms in Japan.
- Represented financial institutions and trust banks on structuring the securitization of various assets, including lease receivables, installment receivables and loan receivables.
- Represented the Japanese branch of a global pharmaceutical company in connection with a company split.
Admissions
- New York – United States (2020)
- Japan (2013)
Professional Association and Memberships
- Tokyo Bar Association – member
- New York State Bar – member
Education
- University of Chicago (LLM) (2019)
- University of Tokyo Graduate School for Law and Politics (JD) (2011)
- University of Pennsylvania (2007)
- International Christian University (2006)
Languages
Japanese, English