Nishimura & Asahi

M&A / Corporate

Partner, Tokyo

Yuji is a partner in our M&A and corporate team. With over 20 years’ experience, he has extensive experience advising on matters in M&A, joint venture, activism, private equity, compliance, general corporate, cross border transactions, and crisis management matters.

Yuji’s practice includes a wide range of M&A, investment, and joint venture transactions, in a matter involving a Japanese company and a foreign company / investment fund, he represented both parties through successful completion of the transaction. With his seasoned experience of acquisition matters by foreign investment funds, he has advised numerous Japanese listed and unlisted companies on activism matters. He is also active in the Firm’s Asia practice such as India, China, Taiwan, Singapore, Indonesia, and Vietnam.

For his advisory work, he has been highly regarded by his clients. He has received feedback such as the following - (i) he is very pragmatic and proactive; (ii) he always gives a good, commercial view of the bigger picture around a situation with deep understanding of his client and; (iii) he has an ability to put himself in his clients’ shoes.

Japanese, English

2000 | Admitted in Japan

2007 | University of Southern California Gould School of Law (LL.M.) 1998 | Waseda University (B.A., Science of Economics)