- Awards
Top attorneys in Japan: Best Lawyers - 2020 edition
Best Lawyers® has published its 10th Edition of The Best Lawyers in Japan (2020). Nishimura & Asahi received Law Firm of the Year for Insolvency and Reorganization and Lawyer of the Year for Telecommunications, and many of our attorneys were also recognized by their peers in Japan’s legal industry for their professional excellence.
Law Firm of the Year
Insolvency and Reorganization
Lawyer of the Year 2020
Katsuyuki Yamaguchi (Telecommunications)
Antitrust / Competition
Kozo Kawai Madoka Shimada
Arbitration and Mediation
Hiroyuki Tezuka
Asset Finance
Katsu Sengoku Masahiro Ueno Hajime Ueno
Banking and Finance
Masaru Ono Katsu Sengoku Masahiro Ueno Toshihiro Maeda Makoto Igarashi Kei Ito Yoshiaki Ikeda
Capital Markets
Yasutaka Nishikori Kohei Koikawa
Corporate and M&A
Masaki Hosaka Kazuhiro Takei Katsuyuki Yamaguchi Asa Shinkawa Yoshinobu Fujimoto Hiroshi Uchima Yo Ota
Akihiro Hironaka Tatsuya Tanigawa Ryutaro Nakayama Hikaru Oguchi Naoko Shimura Yuri Sugano Mariko Mimura
Corporate Governance & Compliance Practice
Kazuhiro Takei
Insolvency and Reorganization
Hideki Matsushima Kenichi Minami Gaku Suzuki Shintaro Miyazaki
Intellectual Property
Yoshiyuki Miyashita Nobuhiro Nakayama
International Business Transactions
Hiroyuki Tezuka Kozo Kawai
Litigation
Hiroyuki Tezuka Masako Yajima Akihiro Hironaka
Media and Entertainment
Yoshiyuki Miyashita
Private Equity, Private Funds and Venture Capital
Makoto Igarashi Kei Ito
Project Finance and Development Practice
Masaru Ono Hajime Ueno Tomohiro Sato Nagahide Sato
Real Estate
Masaru Ono Yoshihiko Kawakami Yoshiaki Ikeda Hiroshi Niinomi Norio Maeda
Structured Finance
Masaru Ono Katsu Sengoku Masahiro Ueno Toshihiro Maeda Yoshihiko Kawakami Yoshiaki Ikeda Hajime Ueno
Tax
Yo Ota
Telecommunications
Yoshiyuki Miyashita Kozo Kawai Katsuyuki Yamaguchi
Trade
Kozo Kawai