Benjamin Hirasawa

Benjamin is the Founder and Managing Partner of BH2I and a member of the International Society of Hospitality Consultants.

He currently advises leading private equity, real estate and hospitality and leisure companies across the Asia Pacific region on foreign direct investment, mergers and acquisitions, acquisitions and dispositions, development and operations, including such areas such as property funds, timeshare, fractional ownership, REITS and branded residences, and has become the ‘go-to’ individual in Singapore, Thailand, Japan, greater China, Myanmar, Maldives, Indonesia, Vietnam, South Korea, Australia and other jurisdictions in Asia Pacific for several of the world’s largest private equity firms, hotel operating companies and property owners.

BH2I’s Founder and Managing Partner, Benjamin Hirasawa, has been ranked numerous times as a leading and recognized practitioner for nearly a decade in the corporate and real estate sectors in Thailand, Singapore and Myanmar by Chambers Asia Pacific and Legal 500 Asia Pacific.

Clients and referees characterized the Hospitality and Leisure practice led by Ben as Head of Hospitality – Asia Pacific as ”a dominant practice in respect of hotel management’” and described Ben as “commercial, efficient and responsive”, “an excellent lawyer with a very strong expertise in hotel management’ and arguably “one of the best hospitality lawyers in South East Asia.”