TMI Associates

TMI Associates in Tokyo fields practitioners who ‘are able to understand the potential legal issues very well’, and the group continues to increase the diversity of its fund practice, which advises on a broad range of funds including buyout funds, distressed funds and corporate reconstruction funds. Practice head Yoshiyasu Yamaguchi is instrumental in the group’s work related to structured finance and securitisation issues, while Sadao Maeda is ‘a very experienced legal adviser in terms of fund establishment’ and is described as ’understanding the speciality of a fund’. Key clients instructing the group include asset management companies such as DBJ Asset Management, as well as fund managers established domestically and internationally. Kiyomi Kikuchi is extremely active in the team, and Takuma Taki is a key contact for listed infrastructure funds.