Atsumi & Sakai

Akio Kawamura heads up Atsumi & Sakai‘s investment funds team in Tokyo, and is well supported by Yukihito Machida, who leads the firm’s venture practice team. The team is particularly well regarded for its cross-border experience when advising foreign investors promoting funds in the Japanese market, an area in which the group is extremely active across the full life cycle of a fund. The group also advises clients on fund structures and handles offshore funds and the related regulatory filings. Elsewhere in the team, Ryuichi Nozaki is known for her expertise in investment fund management, including asset management and cross-border investment issues.