Jeff Schrepfer is an associate in the Corporate Finance Practice Group of the Tokyo office. His practice focuses on mergers and acquisitions, capital market transactions, and general corporate counseling for publicly and privately held companies. Prior to joining the Tokyo office in 2004, Mr. Schrepfer practiced with the Corporate Finance Practice Group of Morrison & Foerster's San Francisco office.
Mr. Schrepfer received a B.A. degree in International Studies from Northern Kentucky University in 1990 and was awarded a one-year MonbushÅ (Japanese Ministry of Education) Scholarship to study the Japanese language at Nagoya University in 1989. In 2001, he received a J.D. degree and certificate in law and technology from the University of California, Berkeley, Boalt Hall School of Law, where he was the Electronic Resources Editor of the California Law Review.
Prior to attending law school, Mr. Schrepfer spent three years working as an analyst at the Tokyo headquarters of a major Japanese manufacturing firm and four years at the Tokyo office of a large French bank working as a financial derivatives broker/analyst serving mostly Japanese institutional clients. Mr. Schrepfer speaks, reads, and writes Japanese fluently.