Chirelstein Colloquium: "Business Innovation and Challenges: The Role of the General Counsel Today" with Osamu Watanabe '85, General Counsel, Moelis & Company.

Oct. 12, 2022
12:10PM - 1:30PM
SLB Room 122
Open to the Yale Community

Lunch will be available shortly after 12:00 p.m. and the Colloquium will start at 12:10 p.m.

Please register using this link by Thursday, October 6, 2022.


Osamu Watanabe '85 is General Counsel at Moelis & Company, a leading global independent investment bank that provides innovative, unconflicted strategic advice to a diverse client base. He was previously General Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer of Sagent Advisors and prior to that held senior positions at UBS, Credit Suisse First Boston and Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette, including General Counsel to GRP Partners, a venture capital fund affiliated with Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette. Mr. Watanabe was in private practice at Sullivan & Cromwell LLP in New York, Tokyo, Hong Kong and Melbourne from 1987 to 1997 and clerked for the Honorable Morey L. Sear, Eastern District of Louisiana.

Mr. Watanabe holds a B.A. from Antioch College and a J.D. from Yale Law School.

Sponsoring Organization(s)

Yale Law School Center for the Study of Corporate Law

Yale Law & Business Society

Career Development Office

Chae Initiative in Private Sector Leadership