Nagashima Ohno & Tsunematsu

Atsushi Yamashita

Partner：Practicing in the capital markets area and providing advice relating to offering of equity and debt securities by Japanese and non-Japanese companies including major financial institutions in the Japanese market and overseas market, offering of fund interests in Japan, investment in start-up companies, granting of equity awards and securities law related issues including disclosure related issues and insider trading issues. Also practices in areas such as financial regulations, corporate and M&A, corporate governance and international dispute related matters.

Foreign Law Partner Gaikokuho Jimu Bengoshi

Daisuke Fukamizu

Fumihide Sugimoto

Partner/Co-Chair: Corporate governance, takeover defence, financial regulations and compliance matters, including regulatory investigations, corporate restructuring and consolidation, listed company disclosure issues, various financial transactions, including offerings of debt, equity and other securities as well as asset finance.

M&A, including public tender offers, LBO/MBO, joint ventures, general corporate work, and investment in Asian countries

HIRONOBU TSUKAMOTO

Dispute Resolution; Employment and Labor Practice; Risk and Crisis Management

Hiroshi Fujiwara

His practice focuses on M&A and corporate transactions, including rehabilitation of financially troubled companies, investment by private equity funds, joint ventures and takeover defenses. He also advises on corporate governance matters. He regularly represents domestic and foreign clients.

General Corporate, Corporate Governance, Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A), Risk and Crisis Management/Compliance, Restructuring/Insolvency, Asia

PartnerPractice focuses on real estate-related matters including real estate funds, real estate financing, real estate securitization and Japanese REIT (J-REIT) formation. Extensive experience with joint ventures and M&A transactions and also represents a wide range of clients, both domestic and foreign (regularly represents financial institutions, investment funds, and companies operating in various industries including real estate companies, construction companies, pharmaceutical companies, machinery manufacturers and chemical companies.).

Hiroyuki Ishizuka

Main area of practice are financing/capital market transactions and corporate law, including securities offering, securities regulations, fund regulations such as private fund filing requirements, corporate governance and tender offer regulations.

Partner, specializing in capital markets; securitization/structured finance/trust; real estate investment/real estate securitization

Banking; acquisition finance, asset-based finance; project finance, structured finance; real estate; corporate, Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A)

Antitrust/Competition Law Advice, Antitrust Litigation/Investigation, Merger Control, Unreasonable Premiums and Misleading Representation Prevention Act and Subcontract Act, International Trade, General Corporate.

M&A, corporate governance, overseas support services, environmental law and general corporate.

Partner. His practice focuses on complex business transactions, including M&A, divestitures, spin-offs, joint ventures, strategic alliances, leveraged buyouts, private equity investing, restructuring and workouts, and recapitalizations. He also counsels clients in a wide variety of corporate matters, including corporate governance issues, and is often called upon to represent public companies involved in takeover and active shareholder defense.

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A); IP Transactions; IT and Telecommunications; Media, Game, Entertainment and Sport; Pharmaceutical and Health Care; Data Protection and Privacy; Corporate Governance; and General Corporate.

Partner practicing Financial Regulations and Fund Management, including provide advice on regulations relating to asset management, securities, banking and other financial services, assist in obtaining required licenses and registrations; assist in organising investment trusts, private investment funds and other investment vehicles; personal data protection; compliance matters; general corporate.

Financial Service Regulations; (Re)Insurance Transactions

Partner: Mr. Horiuchi focuses on corporate restructuring and reorganization in the broadest sense: M&A, private equity investments, joint ventures, business alliances as well as tax advice and planning for the above. He has extensive experience in cross-border transactions and frequently provides such corporate and tax legal services to non-Japanese clients. He further routinely advises on transactional matters for pharmaceutical companies utilizing his pharmaceutical science background as a licensed pharmacist.

Dispute Resolution; IP, IT and Entertainment; IP Transactions; IP Litigation; General Corporate

Partner of Real Estate and J-REITs, Pharmaceutical and Health Care Chair of Real Estate Practice Team

Pharmaceutical, Medical and Health Care; Financial Regulations; Asset Management/Fund Business; Corporate/M&A

Partner (Tokyo Office)

Kohei Okawa has mainly been involved in restructuring and insolvency cases and distressed M&A cases. He has a lot of experiences of corporate restructuring and insolvency, whether out-of-court or in-court.

Koichiro Yoshimura

Koki Yanagisawa

Dispute Resolution; Employment and Labor Practice; Antitrust Practice; General Corporate; Risk and Crisis Management

Kosuke Hamaguchi

Kyohei Mizukoshi

Partner. His practice focuses on capital market transactions, including IPOs, equity and debt financing. He also counsels clients in a wide variety of corporate matters, including corporate governance issues.

Corporate/M&A; General Corporate; Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A); Private Equity/Venture Capital; Securitization/Structured Finance/Trust; Acquisition Finance; Project Finance; Financial Regulations/Fund Management; Real Estate and J-REITs; Pharmaceutical and Health Care.

Partner practicing Life Science, Pharmaceutical and Healthcare; Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A); Private Equity, Venture Capital and Startups; IP Transactions; Data Protection and Privacy; Global Investigations, Crisis Management and Compliance; General Corporate

Masatsura Kadota

Partner; Main area of work is capital markets and corporate law, including offering of debt and equity securities, IPOs, J-REIT and tender offer.

Masayuki Fukuda

Securitization/Structured Finance/Trust; Banking; Asset Management/Fund; Real Estate Transactions; Real Estate Investment/Real Estate Securitization; J-REITs; Project Finance; Natural Resources and Energy; Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A); Wealth Management/Business Succession/Inheritance; Asia, India; Other Asian Jurisdictions; Casinos/Gambling

Miyuki Ishiguro

Partner specialised in capital market transactions. Main area of work is domestic and global offering of debt and equity securities, private placement, initial public offering and share compesation transaction.

Motohiro Yanagawa

Specializing in Securitization, Structured Finance, Corporate Finance and Trust practice, as well as Banking and Securities Regulations. Practice area also covers Real Estate Investment/Real Estate Securitization, Real Estate Transactions, J-REITs, Asset Management/Fund, Project Finance, Acquisition Finance, Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A), Financial Regulations/Financial Compliance, Restructuring/Insolvency, General Corporate, Asia, Philippines, North America and Latin America.

Nobuaki Kobayashi

Mr. Kobayashi has a wealth of practical experience handling high-profile insolvency and restructuring proceedings, including large-scale corporate reorganizations.

Dispute Resolution (Consumer Litigation, Civil and Commercial Disputes, Employment Disputes, Tax Disputes, Antitrust Litigation/Investigation, Environmental Disputes), Consumer Law Advice, Employment Law Advice, Unreasonable Premiums and Misleading Representation Prevention Act and Subcontract Act, Risk and Crisis Management/Compliance, Pharmaceutical and Health Care, General Corporate, Corporate Governance, Data Protection and Privacy

Private Equity, M&A, Acquisition Finance, Corporate, TMT, Space

Partner. His practice focuses on Banking. He has extensive experience in handling acquisition financing transactions and DIP financing transactions.

Banking; Securitization/Structured Finance/Trust; Financial Regulations/Fund Management; Restructuring/Insolvency

Satoshi Moriguchi

Asia, China, North America and Latin America, General Corporate, Corporate Governance, Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A), Banking, Financial Regulations/Financial Compliance, Securitization/Structured Finance/Trust, Civil and Commercial Disputes, Disputes in Foreign Jurisdictions, International Arbitration, Risk and Crisis Management/Compliance, Employment Law Advice, IP Transactions, Antitrust/Competition Law Advice, Unreasonable Premiums and Misleading Representation Prevention Act and Subcontract Act

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A); Tax Practice; Tax Advice and Planning; Tax Controversy

Shinichi Matsui

General Corporate; Corporate Governance; Banking; Project Finance; Insurance; Risk and Crisis Management/Compliance; Restructuring/Insolvency; Disputes in Foreign Jurisdictions; IP Transactions; IP Disputes; IT and Telecommunications; Media; Entertainment and Sport; Natural Resources and Energy; Asia; North America and Latin America; Civil and Commercial Disputes; Maritime Commercial Law

Partner; Main area of his work is capital markets, including debt, equity and hybrid securities, IPOs, follow-on and Samurai bonds, and financial regulations/compliance and governmental investigation.

Shinichiro Horaguchi

Shinsuke Hiratsu

Partner; Sport, Entertainment, Real Estate, Finance

Shuichi Nishimura

IP Transactions, Media, Entertainment and Sport, IP Disputes, IT and Telecommunications, General Corporate

Real Estate and J-REITs; Infrastructure; General Corporate (including corporate governance, compliance); Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A); Securitization/Structured Finance/Trust; Financial Regulations/Fund Management; Legislation/Regulations; Risk and Crisis Management; Overseas Support Services.

Soichiro Fujiwara

M&A/Corporate, TMT

Partner. Sosuke Kimura is a career-long expert in the capital markets industry, who provides high-quality advice on securities offering transactions, covering all equity, debt and hybrid securities. He also has deep experience in M&A transactions, especially tender offer transactions in which listed companies go private.

Takahiro Kitagawa

Partner. He specializes in handling real estate and capital markets related matters. His experience covers real estate transactions, real estate securitization, real estate financing, formation and management of real estate funds (J-REITs and private funds), initial and follow-on public offering of J-REITs, and M&A transactions of real estate companies and J-REITs.

Main area of practice is banking, energy, infrastructure and other projects (including PFIs and PPPs) and project finance.

Takashi Miyazaki

Partner practicing Corporate, M&A and Banking.

Takashi Itokawa

Partner; Main area of work is finance transactions and the relevant regulatory matters, especially securities offerings by various issuers including J-REITs, M&A finance, securitization, and structured finance.

Partner, specializing in tax and asset planning matters.

Takashi Tsukioka

Partner (Banking, Capital Markets, Securitization/Structured Finance, Derivatives, Infrastructure)

Financial Regulations (Banking Act, Financial Instruments and Exchange Act, Insurance Business Act)

Terukazu Katsuyama

Tomohiko Iwasaki

Tomohiro Okawa is a partner at the Tokyo office of Nagashima Ohno & Tsunematsu. He has been mainly involved in cross-border transactions by leveraging a variety of deal experiences, such as business reorganization and insolvency, banking, and M&A. In particular, he has a wealth of experience in helping distressed companies as debtor’s counsel, whether in-court or out-of-court, including handling distressed M&A and DIP financing.

Tsubasa Watanabe

Tsuyoshi Shimizu

PartnerHis practice focuses on: General Corporate; Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A); Corporate Governance; Internal Control/Compliance; Risk and Crisis Management

Yasuhiro Kasahara

Partner (Tokyo Office)

Yoshifumi Shimoda

Yoshihiko Matake

Partner of NO&T’s crisis management and compliance practice team. His main area of practice is corporate crisis management, international dispute resolution, M&A, import and export controls and data protection regulation.

Yoshinobu Koyama

Yoshitoshi Imoto

Yoshitoshi Imoto is a partner at Nagashima Ohno & Tsunematsu. He advises on all aspects of competition law for both domestic and multi-national clients in connection with M&A, strategic alliance projects, IT/digital antitrust matters as well as cartel investigations and follow-on private lawsuits. He has abundant experiences and expertise in handling high-profile and complex mergers particularly in pharmaceutical industry, automobiles and electronics sectors. His recent professional highlights also include counseling for both domestic and international clients in relation to antitrust investigations on unilateral conduct. He successfully represented a third party claimant that suffered from the industry leader's exclusionary conduct that resulted in the authority's formal investigation.

Yosuke Kanegae has been involved principally in the area of Restructuring/Insolvency, Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) and Risk and Crisis Management. He has extensive experience with complicated voluntary liquidation and international restructuring/insolvency cases involved as a legal counsel of debtors, creditors and sponsors.

Yuichi Miyashita

Yuichi Miyashita is a partner of capital markets practice at Nagashima Ohno & Tsunematsu and has been recognized for his expertise in this area by Chambers Global (Band 4 rating for Capital Markets Domestic) and Chamers Asia-Pacific (Band 3 rating for Capital Markets Domestic), IFLR1000 (Highly regarded for Capital Markets), Who’s Who Legal (Recommended for Capital Markets, Japan) and the Best Lawyers in Japan (Capital Markets Law). Chambers says that he “is active on capital markets transactions and regularly advises on significant IPOs and security token offerings. He wins praise from sources for his customer-centric approach to matters.” It also quotes clients who appreciate that “He proposes advice from a client’s perspective.” and “He is highly accessible, responsible, experienced and familiar with our practice.” (Chambers Global 2024) Yuichi utilizes his work experience at equity capital market division of a major investment bank. He handles a wide variety of capital market transactions, including IPOs, equity and debt primary/secondary follow-on offerings, third-party allotments, block trades and transactions of class shares, warrants, convertible bonds and security token offerings, in both domestic and international markets. Yuichi also advises on sustainable finance and sustainability disclosure. He has been awarded as “Green Ambassador” by The Legal 500 Asia-Pacific Green Guide 2024 and recognized for his strongest involvement with sustainability matters. In addition to his capital markets practice, he advises on financial regulations, M&A transactions, corporate governance and general corporate matters.

Partner, specializing in taxation; tax advice and planning; tax controversy and litigation.

Yutaro Fujimoto

Energy, Project Finance, Environmental Law

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