Mr. Paradise is a partner of Davis Polk & Wardwell’s Corporate Department. He concentrates in corporate finance transactions, representing issuers and underwriters in global and U.S.-targeted securities offerings by Japanese issuers. He also advises clients on joint ventures and mergers and acquisitions, particularly cross-border transactions involving Japanese parties.

Mr. Paradise joined Davis Polk in 1982. He has practiced in the Tokyo office since 1991.

Mr. Paradise graduated from Indiana University in 1979 and in 1982 received his J.D. from Yale Law School, where he was articles editor of the law review. He is admitted to the bar of New York and qualified in Japan as a Foreign Special Member (Gaikokuho-Jimu-Bengoshi) of the Daiichi Tokyo Bar Association.