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Gary Smith practices in a broad range of international transactions with particular emphasis on cross-border M&A and financing transactions.

Mr. Smith is ranked as one of the “World’s Leading Lawyers” by Chambers Global for his M&A and corporate law expertise. He has also been selected as a leading lawyer in M&A and corporate law by International Financial Law Review, The Asia Pacific Legal 500, and Chambers Asia.

Mr. Smith’s experience in the M&A area includes inbound and outbound buyouts, international joint ventures and minority investments in media, high-tech and life sciences industries. He has also represented senior and mezzanine lenders in numerous acquisition financings and other secured syndicated loans including a leveraged buy-out financing transaction that was cited by a leading financial publisher as the “Bond Deal of the Year” and a secured acquisition financing transaction that was cited as the “Most Innovative Deal of the Year”.

Mr. Smith has recently been active in counseling the following clients: Aeon, Daiwa Securities SMBC, Deutsche Bank AG, Fuji Xerox, Furukawa Electric, GCA, Japan Airlines, Mizuho Securities, NEC Electronics, Shinsei Bank and Sumitomo Corporation.

He received his J.D. in 1990 from Columbia University, where he was a Harlan Fiske Stone scholar, and a recipient of the Recognition of Achievement in International Law, with Honors. Mr. Smith also attended the University of Tokyo Graduate School from 1985-1987 as a Japan Ministry of Education Scholar.

Prior to joining Morrison & Foerster, Mr. Smith was the managing partner of O’Melveny & Myers LLP’s Tokyo Office. He is admitted in New York and in Japan as a Gaikokuho-Jimu-Bengoshi, and is fluent in Japanese.