Asian-MENA Counsel - Deals of the Year 2014

We are pleased to inform you that the following deals in which Nishimura & Asahi acted as counsel, received the following Deals of the Year 2014 awards from Asian-MENA Counsel magazine, published by Pacific Business Press.

Deals of the Year 2014
・Acquisition of Beam Inc. by Suntory Holdings
(Yasutaka Nishikori, Daisuke Matsubara)

Honourable Mention
・Merger of Applied Materials and Tokyo Electron
(Kazuhiro Takei, Ryutaro Nakayama, Masaki Noda)

・Cross border ABS transaction originated by Orient Corporation
(Toshihiro Maeda, Kohei Koikawa, Naoya Ariyoshi)

・Joint Venture between KDDI Corp. and Sumitomo Corp.
(Kozo Kawai, Tatsuya Tanigawa, Madoka Shimada)