Bio

Eiji Kobayashi is a partner in the Corporate & Securities practice in Mayer Brown's Tokyo office. Eiji has more than 20 years of experience in representing the world’s leading industrial conglomerates, including technology, automobile, real estate, and life sciences companies and financial institutions in cross-border mergers and acquisitions, corporate, projects, disputes and regulatory and investigation matters. His practice focuses on complex cross-border corporate and M&A matters, real estate, and other project matters. He also has wide-ranging experience representing companies and individuals in regulatory investigations matters, especially in the industrial, technology, life sciences, aviation and financial institutions industry sectors. Earlier in his career, Eiji worked at a major US M&A law firm, as co-head of the cross-border transactions group at the largest law firm in Japan, and as the chair of the corporate/M&A practice group in Japan for a global law firm. He has represented some of the world’s leading corporations.