- Awards
Nishimura & Asahi’s Deals Recognized at LSEG's DEALWATCH AWARDS 2024
The DEALWATCH AWARDS 2024 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 ceremony was held on May 20, 2025, sponsored by the London Stock Exchange Group.
We are pleased to announce that Nishimura & Asahi partook 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 Kioxia Holdings Corporation (legal counsel of seller)
Kohei Koikawa, Masashi Ueda
People
Kentaro has been involved in a significant number of capital market transactions including Euro bond offerings, global bond offerings, IPOs, follow-on offerings and convertible bonds offerings, conducted by both Japanese issuers and foreign issuers, as the issuer’s counsel or underwriter’s counsel. In addition, he advises on compliance with Japanese disclosure and reporting requirements.
Masashi UEDA
- Partner
- Tokyo
Since joining Nishimura & Asahi, Masashi has handled numerous deals relating to capital markets, including global IPO and PO deals, corporate debt transactions, euro convertible bond offerings, samurai bond offerings, listings of foreign companies on the Tokyo Stock Exchange, and third-party allotments. His abundant, practical experience, and prior secondment to a major financial institution, enable him to provide not only tailored legal advice and efficient support for a wide range of projects, but also specialized legal advice relating to the origination of projects with new features or structures. In addition to capital markets practice, Masashi actively represents clients in insurance transactions, including cross-border matters and those related to the Insurance Business Act; he is a member of our insurance team, and also engages in other financial regulation practice.
He has an extensive track record representing issuers, managers, and selling shareholders in various capital market transactions, including global IPOs, global follow-on offerings, convertible bond offerings, debt offerings, private investments in public companies (PIPEs), and J-REIT offerings. He has also been active in finance transactions by venture companies.