Keiko Yamazaki is a partner in Morrison Foerster’s Finance Department. She has extensive experience in a wide variety of corporate and commercial transactions, with a particular focus on M&A and real estate finance transactions.

Keiko regularly represents major Japanese banks and mezzanine financing companies on LBO financing and corporate financing in acquisitions of Japanese and foreign companies. She also advises the borrower side of PE funds for LBO financing. Keiko also has a wide range of experience with transactions including real estate financing, project financing, and equity investment by Japanese banks.

Keiko is ranked as highly regarded in the category of Women Leaders in Banking by IFLR 1000 2023. Keiko is recommended in the fields of banking and finance in the most recent editions of Chambers Global (2025), Chambers Asia-Pacific (2023), and The Legal 500 Asia Pacific (2023).

Keiko received her LL.B. from Hitotsubashi University and graduated from the Legal Training and Research Institute of Japan (51st Trainee). She is a bengoshi admitted to practice in Japan and is a member of the Daini Tokyo Bar Association.