- Awards
Top attorneys in Japan: Best Lawyers - 2021 edition
Best Lawyers® has published its 11th Edition of The Best Lawyers in Japan (2021). Nishimura & Asahi has been selected as Law Firm of the Year for Banking & Finance and Lawyer of the Year for Asset Finance, and many of our attorneys were also recognized by their peers in Japan’s legal industry for their legal and professional excellence.
Law Firm of the Year
Banking & Finance
Lawyer of the Year 2021
Katsu Sengoku (Asset Finance)
Antitrust / Competition
Yoshinori Ono Kozo Kawai Madoka Shimada Tomoyuki Numata
Arbitration and Mediation
Hiroyuki Tezuka Lars Markert
Asset Finance
Katsu Sengoku Masahiro Ueno Yasunari Sugiyama Hajime Ueno
Banking and Finance
Masaru Ono Katsu Sengoku Masahiro Ueno Toshihiro Maeda Makoto Igarashi Kei Ito Yoshiaki Ikeda Hideo Horikoshi
Kosuke Shibukawa Tsuyoshi Ito Mikiko Soga Toshihiro Takeshita Toshiyuki Nonaka Kentaro Miyagi
Capital Markets
Yasutaka Nishikori Kohei Koikawa Yusuke Motoyanagi Kentaro Sugimoto
Corporate and M&A
Masaki Hosaka Kazuhiro Takei Katsuyuki Yamaguchi Asa Shinkawa Yoshinobu Fujimoto Hiroshi Uchima Yo Ota Hiroshi Suga
Takashi Michishita Takuya Oshida Akihiro Hironaka Tsuneyasu Ozaki Tatsuya Tanigawa Ryutaro Nakayama Naoko Shimura
Hikaru Oguchi Takahiko Date Daisuke Koriya Yuki Oi Nobuya Matsunami Masaki Noda Hiroko Shibata Atsushi Mizushima
Yuji Kobari Hiroaki Takagi Yuri Sugano Kenya Tanaka Makoto Shimizu Taeko Morita Tomohiro Takagi Jiro Abe
Shingo Yamada Yoshiyuki Asaoka Ryokichi Chigira Yoshito Wakabayashi Cuiping Zhang Mariko Mimura
Corporate Governance & Compliance
Satoshi Ogishi Kazuhiro Takei Naoya Ariyoshi Chie Nakahara
Insolvency and Reorganization
Kenichi Minami Gaku Suzuki Shinnosuke Fukuoka Shintaro Miyazaki Hideki Matsushima
Intellectual Property
Yoshiyuki Miyashita Hitomi Iwase Nobuhiro Nakayama Mariko Mimura
International Business Transactions
Hiroyuki Tezuka Kozo Kawai
Investment and Investment Funds
Kazuhiko Kawabata
Litigation
Hiroyuki Tezuka Masako Yajima Akihiro Hironaka Yutaro Kawabata Kazumaro Kobayashi
Media and Entertainment
Yoshiyuki Miyashita
Private Equity, Private Funds and Venture Capital
Makoto Igarashi Kei Ito Takashi Saito
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 Shintaro Uno Ryoji Moroi
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