Nishimura & Asahi

MA / Corporate practice

Partner, Tokyo

Yoshinobu Fujimoto is senior partner of the M&A/Corporate practice group, having more than 30 years experience in both cross-border and domestic M&A, joint ventures and other restructuring transactions, as well as corporate defense and activism matters.

Yoshinobu was promoted to partner in 1999. He has experience in NP loans, real estate transactions, and equity investment cases dealing with foreign capital funds and companies. In addition to domestic M&A and business integration cases, he has recently been engaged in many M&A and JV cases by Japanese corporations in the USA, Europe, and Asian countries. He has advised Japanese corporations on lawsuits in the USA and other overseas countries, and has extensive experience in the dispute settlement and risk management fields. He has won many awards in the Corporate/M&A, Private Wealth and Healthcare fields from business law reviews, such as Chambers Global and The Legal 500 Asia-Pacific.

Japanese, English

1996 | Admitted in New York 1991 | Admitted in Japan

1995 | The University of Chicago Law School (LL.M.) 1989 | Waseda University (LL.B.)