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Who's Who Legal: Japan 2019

29 lawyers from Nishimura & Asahi have been recognised as experts in their respective practice areas by Who's Who Legal: Japan 2019.
Who’s Who Legal, published by Law Business Research, London, UK, is a leading global directory of legal practitioners across a wide range of business law practices. Updated yearly, their research is based on extensive peer and client review and uncovers the top lawyers and experts from across the Japan's legal marketplace.
Arbitration
Hiroyuki Tezuka Akihiro Hironaka Yutaro Kawabata Lars Markert
Aviation
Katsu Sengoku Kosuke Shibukawa Kentaro Miyagi
Banking
Masaru Ono Katsu Sengoku
Business Crime Defence & Investigations
Takashi Shibuya
Capital Markets
Masaru Ono Yasutaka Nishikori Kohei Koikawa
Competition
Kozo Kawai Hiromasa Shiozaki Ryutaro Nakayama Madoka Shimada Kojiro Fujii
Construction & Real Estate
Yoshiaki Ikeda Norio Maeda
Government Contracts
Kozo Kawai
Intellectual Property
Yoshiyuki Miyashita Hitomi Iwase Masashi Kurose
Litigation
Hiroyuki Tezuka Akihiro Hironaka
M&A and Governance
Kazuhiro Takei Asa Shinkawa Yo Ota Stephen D. Bohrer
Private Client
Satoshi Ogishi
Private Funds
Kei Ito
Product Liability Defence
Akihiro Hironaka
Project Finance
Tomohiro Sato
Restructuring & Insolvency
Hideki Matsushima
Trade & Customs
Kozo Kawai Kojiro Fujii