Chieko Tsuchiya

Chieko Tsuchiya is a bankruptcy and litigation lawyer with 25 years’ experience and a strong track record in cross border insolvency and contested disputes involving fraud and asset recovery. She advises and represents Japanese and international companies in investigations, asset tracing and account freezing measures worldwide, coordinating closely with foreign counsel, trustees and financial institutions.

Notable matters include leading the US$1 billion cross border reorganization of a group of 39 shipping companies; and, in a separate matter, acting as counsel in the first ancillary bankruptcy proceeding between Switzerland and Japan, obtaining attachment orders over Swiss bank deposits for a Japanese bankrupt company.

She served as an adjunct judge at the Tokyo Family Court for four years. Drawing on that judicial and mediation experience, she has also advised high net worth individuals on asset investigations in divorce and estate division matters.

Chieko is a special counsel at Anderson Mori & Tomotsune, one of Japan’s largest law firms. The firm regularly assembles multidisciplinary teams of litigators, accountants and former prosecutors to handle complex cross border disputes and investigations.

Prior to joining the firm, she worked at Citibank, N.A. (Tokyo and New York); at the Tokyo office of the international law firm Bingham McCutchen; and at the International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna, Austria. She was also seconded to Tilleke & Gibbins in Bangkok.