Reed Smith Adds Partner in Global Corporate Group
Tadashi Okamoto has joined Reed Smith as a partner in the Global Corporate Group in the New York office. Formerly with Morrison & Foerster LLP, Okamoto has worked with clients on debt and equity securities offerings and other capital markets transactions, including representation of both issuers and underwriters.
A native of Japan, Okamoto is fluent in Japanese and has experience in both New York and Tokyo markets. He focuses his practice on securities and financings, assisting issuers, sponsors, agents, dealers and underwriters with various domestic and international transactions, including IPOs, equity, investment-grade and high-yield debt, convertible debt, securitized products, derivative and balance sheet restructuring transactions. In addition, Okamoto represents emerging companies and venture capital funds as well as investors on various matters such as fundraising and investment activities and helps clients with restructuring needs. He also assists clients in the FinTech sector with development of asset trading platforms and token offerings.
Prior to Morrison Foerster, Okamoto was an associate at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP from 2010 to 2017, including a secondment to the firm’s Tokyo office. He earned a law degree from the University of Tokyo and his LL.M. from the University of Michigan Law School, Ann Arbor.
