Leading Japanese law firm Nishimura & Asahi advised Advantage Partners Inc. and Tokyo Century Corporation [TSE: 8439] on the acquisition through a jointly-owned special purpose company of the energy storage devices and systems business (including overseas operations in Thailand, Taiwan, etc.) of Showa Denko Materials Co., Ltd. 

The Nishimura & Asahi team advising Advantage Partners and Tokyo Century was led by partners Kazuhiro Takei, Takuya Matsuo, Ayako Matsumoto, Yasunori Ishizaki, Ryutaro Nakayama, Kazumaro Kobayashi, Taro Hirosawa, Jun Katsube, Tokuhiro Matsunaga, Takashi Nomura, Masataka Sato, Kaoru Tatsumi, Yusuke Urano, Yuki Taguchi, Kazuyoshi Furusumi, Hiroko Jimbo, Yutaka Ito, Masahiro Heike, Isamu Imaizumi, Ing-Chian Sun, Hiroyuki Kikuchi, Yujin Suga and Nuttaros Tangprasitti.