She focuses her practice on investment funds and managers, finance, structured finance, derivatives and financial products. She concentrates on, and has significant experience in, the organization and representation of on-shore and off-shore hedge funds, formation of managed account platforms and private equity funds. She has extensive experience guiding fund managers through securities and futures regulatory compliance as well as understanding and handling their counterparty risk. She also advises funds-of-funds and institutional investors. In particular, she advises funds and fund investors with respect to derivatives, loan transactions, loan trading, financial products and investments in Japan and other Asian countries. She also has experience as lender and borrower counsel in traditional bank loans, private placements of securities and structured transactions, and has advised clients on mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, securities offerings, and general corporate matters. Ms. Okoshi is fluent in English, Japanese and Mandarin Chinese.

Ms. Okoshi has been listed as an Asialaw Leading Lawyer by Asia Law & Practice for four consecutive years (2006-2009), and is described in Legal 500’s 2009 review of U.S. practitioners in the Alternative/Hedge Funds area as “nothingshort of ‘excellent,’ according to clients, providing ‘direct, smart solutions when we need them.’”

Ms. Okoshi is a member of the Managed Funds Association, the Futures Industry Association Law & Compliance Division and the American Bar Association. She also serves as Chair of the Governance Committee and Co Chair of the Legal Peer Advisory Council of 100 Women in Hedge Funds. Ms. Okoshi earned her B.A. and M.A. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1984 and her J.D. from Stanford Law School in 1989. She is admitted to practice in New York (1990).