- Awards
Nishimura & Asahi’s work on deals recognized at LSEG's DEALWATCH AWARDS 2023
The DEALWATCH AWARDS 2023 were announced to honor outstanding issuers of debt and equity securities in the domestic capital markets, Japanese issuers with overseas offerings, and underwriting securities firms managing deals. The awards are sponsored by the London Stock Exchange Group.
We are pleased to announce that Nishimura & Asahi participated in the following award-winning transactions.
Offshore Bond of the Year
U.S. dollar-denominated bonds issuance of Rakuten Group (legal counsel of issuer)
Kohei Koikawa, Kentaro Sugimoto
IPO of the Year
Global IPO of KOKUSAI ELECTRIC (legal counsel of issuer)
Kohei Koikawa, Kentaro Sugimoto, Masashi Ueda
He has an extensive track record representing issuers, managers and selling shareholders in various capital markets transactions, incduling global IPOs, global follow-on offerings, convetibles bonds offerings, debt offerings, private investments in public companies (PIPEs), J-REITs offerings. He also has been active in fincance transactions by venture companies.