PFI Japanese Project Finance Roundtable 2015: Paticipants

Koichiro Oshima
BTMU
Koichiro Oshima is Head of Project Finance Department, Structured Finance Division, Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ Ltd (BTMU). He has held his current position as Head of PFD in Tokyo since May 2012. Previously, he was the Head of Structured Finance in New York. He has recently been made the new head of investment banking for Asia and Oceana, Asian Investment Banking Division (AIBD) of the bank in Singapore.

Toshi Fukumura
Marubeni Corporation
Toshihiro Fukumura is Assistant General Manager, Planning & Strategy Department, Power Projects & Plant Group, Marubeni Corporation. Toshihiro has more than 15 years of experience in EPC and IPP projects in Asia, Australia, Europe and Americas. In his current role, he is responsible for preparing a mid-term strategy for Marubeni’s power businesses all over the world. Prior to this position, he served as President and CEO of Marubeni Power International Inc based in New York.

Rajeev Kannan
SMBC
In April 2015, Rajeev became Director and General Manager of the Structured Finance Department based in Tokyo, which is responsible for supporting Japanese companies globally in relation to project finance, infrastructure finance, leverage finance, ECA finance and ship finance. He joined SMBC in May 1997 and helped build one of the strongest project finance teams in the world. Prior to joining SMBC, he worked for ICICI Bank in Mumbai.

Kohei Toyoda
JBIC
Kohei Toyoda has been the Director of Division 3 (Project Finance in EMEA) of the Power and Water Finance Department and Vice Committee Chair of the Project Finance Committee of the Japan Bank for International Co-operation (JBIC) since August 2014. He has approximately 18 years of working experience in JBIC within the field of project financing to mining and power projects, as well as sovereign financing to Asian countries.

Fumio Inagawa
Mizuho
Fumio Inagawa has been General Manager of Global Project Finance Division since 2012. He has more than 20 years of experience in Project and Structured Finance, specialising in origination, structuring and advisory. Having worked in the New York and Los Angeles offices from 1991 to 2001, he has led a number of high-profile transactions mainly in Latin America. In 2001, he moved back to Tokyo to focus on project finance deals in Asia.

Masahiro Morimoto
Mitsubishi
Masahiro was assigned to the current position of Finance Manager in the Natural Gas Department of Mitsubishi Corporation after a four-year secondment to a joint venture company in Indonesia called PT Donggi-Senoro LNG. Masahiro is responsible for procuring optimal financing to all LNG projects newly planned by Mitsubishi Corporation.

Hiroki Shibata
Standard & Poor’s
Hiroki Shibata is a director/lead analyst in Corporate Ratings at Standard & Poor’s Ratings Japan KK. He has primary analytical responsibilities for the Utility, Infrastructure, General Trading and Investment Companies (Sogo-Shosha), Capital Goods, as well as Project Finance sectors. Before joining S&P in 2007, Hiroki worked at Chuo-Mitsui Trust and Banking Co Ltd for 13 years. He is a lecturer in the Department of Economics at Nihon University.

Takahide Yamamoto
JGC
Takahide Yamamoto is General Manager, Structured Finance Department, JGC Corporation. In more than 30 years with JGC , he has developed his professional career mainly in the fields of financing, tax and project accounting and project financing. Financing achievements include project financing for an oil refinery in Vietnam using six ECAs in 2013, a gas processing project in Qatar using three ECAs in 2011 and an LNG project in Papua New Guinea using two ECAs in 2009.

Alexander Borisoff
Milbank Tweed
Alec Borisoff is a partner in Milbank Tweed’s Tokyo office and was previously resident in the firm’s New York and Washington, DC offices. Alex regularly represents project sponsors, financial institutions, export credit and multilateral development agencies and other project participants in a wide range of cross-border project and structured financings and investment transactions, with a particular emphasis on power, mining, and oil and gas-related financings.

Rod Morrison
Thomson Reuters
Rod Morrison has been editor of Thomson Reuters’ Project Finance International (PFI) publication since 1993, during which time the product has grown to become a global leader in its field. The PFI website is at www.pfie.com.