加藤 寛史 Hirofumi Kato

Hirofumi Kato’s strengths lie in his close cooperative relationships with other specialists (certified public accountants, certified tax accountants, etc.) in order to advise his large client base consisting of medium and small enterprises on matters relating to general corporate legal affairs, dispute resolution, as well as business succession. In addition, as corporate counsel, Mr. Kato is broadly engaged in litigation and dispute resolution cases including negotiations, and has extensive litigation experience in cases such as class action lawsuits and patent litigation.

In the field of business rehabilitation, Mr. Kato has abundant experience in legal liquidation (company reorganization, civil rehabilitation), voluntary liquidation (voluntary liquidation guidelines, turnaround ADR, SME revitalization support council schemes, pure voluntary liquidation), and is involved in various positions acting as representative for debtor companies and sponsor candidates. Recently, he has been handling a large number of cases supporting the rehabilitation or winding up of medium and small enterprises going through voluntary liquidation, as well as debt consolidations based on the guidelines for management-guaranteed debt.

In addition, Mr. Kato has been involved with streamlining the systems and procedures at the Small & Medium Enterprises Revitalization Support Council as a project manager at their national headquarters since its inception in 2007.