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Senior Managing Associate
Shigeyuki Ito
- M&A
- Project Finance and Infrastructure
SHIGEYUKI ITO is a senior managing associate at Sidley Austin Foreign Law Joint Enterprise. His practice focuses on cross-border project finance, general finance, and other corporate transactions. Shige has represented Japanese ECA and commercial lenders on project financing of overseas energy projects, and has worked with Japanese sponsors and other multinational corporates on cross-border energy and general financing transactions. He also has experience as in-house counsel (secondment) at a major Japanese power generation company.
Prior to joining Sidley, Shige worked for international law firms in Tokyo and New York. Shige is also familiar with legal systems in various frontier countries, having worked for the United Nations on governance, rule of law, security, and anticorruption-related legal reforms in countries such as Afghanistan, Lao PDR, and Somalia.
Shige is a native English and Japanese speaker.
Experience
- Representative Matters
Select M&A and General Corporate Representations*
- Group of Japanese ECA and commercial lenders on a financing for a greenfield mining project in South America.
- Japanese lenders for an amendment to a financing for a power project in Indonesia.
- International lender consortium on the acquisition financing of an energy resources company in SE Asia.
- U.S. private equity fund on its senior secured term loan facility to fund the acquisition of a production sharing contract for a gas field in SE Asia from an Asian oil company.
- U.S. private equity fund on the acquisition financing of a power generation and electricity retail company in SE Asia.
- Private equity fund in connection with establishing a fund for investment in Vietnam.
- U.S. private equity fund on its loan facility to an agricultural plantation company in SE Asia.
- Japanese bank on a loan facility for the acquisition of the aviation division of a European Bank.
- Japan-based European bank on loan facilities to an aircraft leasing company based in the U.S.
- U.S. private equity fund in connection with securitization programs referencing auto lease finance assets, in connection with the acquisition of a U.S. automobile company.
- Financial arm of a U.S. automobile company in connection with an auto lease securitization facility.
- U.S. bank in connection with a secured credit facility to a major U.S. airline.
*Includes matters handled prior to joining Sidley.
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Credentials
Admissions & Certifications
- New York
- GJB (Registered Foreign Lawyer in Japan)
- Licensed in New York (Registration in progress as GJB in Japan)
Education
- University of Michigan Law School, J.D., 2006
- Haverford College, B.A., 2002 (with High Honors)
Languages
- English
- Japanese