Hitomi Komachi
Counsel
Tokyo

Hitomi Komachi
Counsel
Tokyo
Contact Details
Hitomi has extensive experience advising on a wide range of project and financing transactions in the energy and infrastructure sector, including project development, export and project financing, acquisition financing and restructuring.
She regularly acts for sponsors, export credit agencies, development financing institutions and financiers globally on innovative transactions in emerging markets.
Hitomi has been recognised as a "Rising Star" for Projects & Energy in Japan by the Asia Pacific Legal 500 directory since 2020.
Qualifications
Professional
Registered Foreign Lawyer (England & Wales), Japan, 2020 (Tokyo Bar Association)
Admitted as solicitor, England and Wales, 2010
Academic
Bachelor of Science, International Relations, The London School of Economics and Political Science, 2006
LLB, the College of Law, 2008
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Publications: 03 November 2022
Hydrogen is critical to Net Zero - but needs government support
Hydrogen will be key to decarbonising industries such as steel. But to build the supply chains required to develop economies of scale, state intervention will be needed.
News: 10 November 2021
Publications: 09 June 2021
Japan’s NEDO to unlock the Green Innovation Fund for hydrogen investors

Qualifications
Professional
Registered Foreign Lawyer (England & Wales), Japan, 2020 (Tokyo Bar Association)
Admitted as solicitor, England and Wales, 2010
Academic
Bachelor of Science, International Relations, The London School of Economics and Political Science, 2006
LLB, the College of Law, 2008
Recognition
Rising Star: Projects & Energy (Japan - International Firms and Joint Ventures)
Legal 500 Asia Pacific, 2020-2023