Yuya Shimizu

Mr. Yuya Shimizu is a Chief Investment Officer at 3D Investment Partners Pte.
Ltd. and an Independent Outside Director at Fuji Soft, Inc. He is on the Board of Directors at Fuji Soft, Inc. He has over 18 years of experience investing across distressed debt, real estate, private equity, and public equities.
Mr. Shimizu was previously employed as a Director & Chief Investment Officer by Hibiki Path Advisors Pte Ltd. Prior to founding Hibiki in 2015, he held investment roles at Moore Strategic Value Partners (MSVP), Asuka Asset Management, Dalton Investments, and OTS Capital Management.
At MSVP, Mr. Shimizu led the Corporate Distress Team, pricing over 800 distressed loans and bonds, while also engaging directly with obligors in various restructuring phases.
During his time at Asuka, he was a senior member of the private equity team and executed the MBO/TOB of Foodxglobe (Tully’s Coffee Japan) in 2003–2004, leading negotiations with both the founder and lenders.
At Dalton, he initiated a pioneering activist strategy targeting Japanese REITs in 2008, delivering over 300% cumulative return.
He also served as an independent director of Suntelephone Corp., a company that was later taken private by Bain Capital and Japan Industrial Partners.
Mr. Shimizu started his career at Goldman Sachs Tokyo in 1994, beginning in institutional equity sales before becoming an Equity Research Analyst covering the Construction/Real Estate and Steel/Metal sectors.
He holds a BA in Economics from Keio University (1994) and an MSc in Finance from London Business School (2003).