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Adrian Joyce (admitted in England & Wales) joins Nishimura & Asahi
We are pleased to announce that Adrian Joyce joined Nishimura & Asahi as a Foreign Law Partner* on September 7, 2020.
Adrian has been a partner at an international law firm for more than six years, prior to which he worked as a senior lawyer at a Japanese megabank. He has extensive experience in energy, asset and infrastructure finance and advises Japanese and foreign clients on cross-border projects.
He is ranked in The Legal 500 as a "Leading Individual: Gaiben" for Banking and Finance: International Firms and Joint Ventures (Japan). He is fluent in Japanese.
We are confident that Adrian’s extensive experience will further enrich and support the work of our firm.
Profile of Adrian Joyce
Adrian has considerable experience advising lenders, sponsors and ECAs on energy, transportation and infrastructure in, Japan, APAC, the Americas, Europe, Middle East and Africa. He is recognised as a market leader for project finance and asset finance and regularly advises Japanese and international clients on the development and financing of cross-border energy, infrastructure and transportation projects. Highly regarded for his commercial acumen, Adrian is recognised in Chambers Global and Chambers APAC for “Projects & Energy: International” and “Banking & Finance: International Asset Finance” and in The Legal 500 for "Projects and Finance”, “Shipping” and “Banking and Finance” for which he is ranked as a “Leading Individual”. Recent experience includes advising sponsors and lenders on: • LNG: a large number of LNG vessel financings (20 vessels since 2020), SPAs and joint ventures; • Infrastructure: projects including five subsea cable financings in APAC and the Americas and two infrastructure projects in Japan; • Renewables: greenfield projects and project sales in Japan and APAC including solar, wind and waste to energy. • Asset finance: debt finance, restructurings, SLB, ESG and JOLCOs in the shipping and aviation sectors. Adrian attended the University of Tokyo and University of Waseda and speaks and reads Japanese.