Olivia Matsushita

Olivia Matsushita is managing partner of Pillsbury's Tokyo office.

Olivia has been resident in the Japanese market for several years, and her practice spans acquisition financing, project financing of cross-border energy and infrastructure transactions, and the financing of moveable assets utilizing a range of financing structures.

Olivia is credited with Pillsbury’s recognition for its work on the JX Nippon/NRG Energy sponsored Petra Nova carbon capture and sequestration and enhanced oil recovery project in Texas, and the Sumitomo Chemical/Saudi-Aramco-sponsored Rabigh project, which won Deal of the Year from Project Finance International.

Olivia is an Australian and English-law-qualified solicitor and is fluent in Japanese.

Professional Highlights

Member of Pillsbury’s Chambers Global and Chambers Asia-Pacific-ranked Japan Projects & Energy team; Recognized in Chambers Asia-Pacific as Up and Coming in Banking & Finance: International Asset Finance (2022); Recognized in The Legal 500 Asia-Pacific in Japan as a Next Generation Partner in Projects & Energy (2020 – 2022).
Member of the Projects Team, Ranked in IJ Global – Three Top 20 League Tables for First of 2017 in North America (including Project Finance, Infrastructure Finance and Power Infrastructure Finance).
Led the team that represented Hoya Corp., information and health technology giant, in connection with its investment in a consortium led by Bain Capital to purchase Toshiba’s $18 billion flash chip memory business. The deal was named The Asian Lawyer M&A Deal of the Year: North Asia for 2017.

Named as a Thomson Reuters Stand-out Lawyer (2025)

Speaking Engagements
- Moderator for “Diversity in Aviation Finance – Leading the Way in Asia,” Advancing Women in Aviation AWAR Fireside Chat (April 2022).