She graduated from the Faculty of Law at University of Tokyo in 1998, and in 2008, graduated from Columbia Law School (LL.M.) in the U.S. After registering as an attorney-at-law in 2002, she joined Nagashima Ohno & Tsunematsu and then, in 2011, Kataoka & Kobayashi LPC where she has been serving as Partner since 2014. Mainly focusing on financial legal affairs including structured finance and financing, she is engaged in general corporate legal affairs including litigation relating to general commercial/financial transactions, responses to crisis management, and compliance and M&A cases. Alongside this, she serves as outside director at listed companies.