Nishimura & Asahi’s commitment to professionalism and client service has facilitated the firm in becoming one of Japan’s leading providers of domestic and international corporate and business legal services.
About the firm: Nishimura & Asahi is one of Japan’s premier full-service law firms, covering all aspects of domestic and international business and corporate activity. Established through the integration of Nishimura & Partners and Kokusai Bumon (International Division) of Asahi Law Offices on July 1, 2007, Nishimura & Asahi is the largest law firm in Japan. The firm currently has 436 Japanese and foreign lawyers and employs over 550 support staff, including tax accountants, and one of the largest teams of paralegals in Japan. Through the enhancement of professional and organizational synergies due to the expansion in scale of the firms, Nishimura & Asahi is able to share expertise and assist clients cost effectively in all areas of legal services and provide an unprecedented level of client service in highly specialized and complex areas of commercial law. Nishimura & Asahi understands its clients’ growing needs and its fully integrated team of lawyers and professional staff is proud to share the same fundamental philosophy: an uncompromising commitment to quality.
Clients: The firm has established relationships with most major foreign investment banks with a presence in Japan and advises not only top-tier Japanese and foreign companies and financial institutions, but also Japanese administrative agencies, foreign government entities, international organizations, and new economic enterprises. It has long served leading companies in the traditional manufacturing, distribution and retail industries, and its representation of clients in the rapidly evolving communications, information technology, e-commerce and service industries is also prominent. The firm represents its international clients in the establishment of their business ventures in Japan and worldwide, and further advises Japanese companies requiring legal representation in international investment projects both in and outside Japan.
Operation, capability & expansion: Nishimura & Asahi has experienced, multilingual lawyers with specialized training, including advanced international law degrees from law schools in the US or the UK and secondments to firms in non-Japanese jurisdictions, including the US, UK and Australia. The firm has established strong working relationships with law firms worldwide enabling it to focus effectively on international corporate and financial transactions, advising both Japanese and foreign clients at a competitive international standard.
Nishimura & Asahi’s recently formed Corporate Crisis Management Group significantly enhances the firm’s ability to provide comprehensive solutions for complicated and advanced commercial transactions (including cross-border transactions) based on a wide range of in-house legal resources, including corporate law, securities law, civil law, criminal law, administrative law, and related laws and regulations. In addition, the Cross-Border Transactions Group allows the firm to assist clients in international mergers and acquisitions, private equity investments and US capital markets transactions.
Areas of expertise: Nishimura & Asahi’s practice can be divided into ten principal areas: Corporate: General Corporate, M&A, Compliance, Start-up Businesses, Tax, Labor Law, Real Estate/Environmental, International Transactions; Finance: Banking, Capital Markets, Asset Management, Structured Finance/Securitization, Asset Finance, Acquisition Finance, Insurance, PFI/Project Finance; Restructuring/Insolvency; Corporate Crisis Management; Dispute Resolution: Civil & Commercial Disputes, Transnational Dispute Settlement, Tax Disputes, IP Disputes, Administrative Disputes, Specialized Disputes; International Trade; Antitrust; IT/IP: IP Licenses, Venture Capital/IP Finance, Telecommunications/Media; Trusts & Estates; Educational Services: Assistance to Administrative Organizations, Education and Professional Activities.
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