PwC Legal Japan - Our people - Wakana Minota
Wakana Minota
Bar Admission: Japan, Dai-Ichi Tokyo Bar Association(2022)
Languages: Japanese, English
Areas of practice: General corporate, M&A, Wealth management, Financial regulatory compliance and financial transactions, Real estate transactions and real estate finance, Intellectual property rights, Labour, Litigation and crisis management, Public sector, The Antimonopoly Act of Japan and similar competition laws of other jurisdictions
Wakana Minota covers a wide variety of legal services, including general corporate, M&A and litigation matters.
Before joining PwC Legal Japan, she worked for a law firm in Tokyo, handling general corporate, M&A, corporate litigation, shareholder activism response and equity finance cases.
Education
| 2017 | Meiji University (B.A.) |
| 2020 | Waseda Law School (J.D.) |
Professional experience
| 2022-2023 | Asahi Chuo Sogo Law Office |
| 2023-2026 | Sato Sogo Law Office |
| 2026- | PwC Legal Japan |
Publications
| December 2025 | A Must-Have for Young Lawyers and Paralegals: 100 Selected Notification Formats (SHINNIPPON-HOKI PUBLISHING CO., LTD., December 2025, co-author) |