Nishimura & Asahi receives top rankings in Chambers Asia-Pacific 2024

Nishimura & Asahi received top rankings for Japan, as well as the Asia-Pacific Region-wide, Myanmar, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam, and Indonesia for Walalangi & Partners (in association with Nishimura & Asahi), in the recently-published 2024 edition of Chambers Asia-Pacific.

This year’s results highlight our firm’s ongoing commitment to consistent and excellent service delivery across all practice areas for our clients, and many of our lawyers were individually recognized in the guide for their outstanding work. Please see below for the full list of practices and lawyers.
 

Asia-Pacific Region
Arbitration (International)*
Leading Firm: Band 5

Aviation: Finance*
Leading Firm: Band 4
Leading Individual: Katsu Sengoku

Data Protection
Leading Firm: Band 4

Gaming & Gambling
Leading Individual: Tomohiro Takagi

International Trade/WTO*
Leading Firm: Band 3

Japan
Banking & Finance
Leading Firm: Band 1
Leading Individual: Takashi Saito

Banking & Finance: Asset Finance
Leading Individual: Kosuke Shibukawa, Adrian Joyce, Nobuhiko Harada, Katsu Sengoku

Capital Markets
Leading Firm: Band 1
Leading Individual: Kohei Koikawa, Kentaro Sugimoto

Capital Markets: Securitisation & Derivatives
Leading Firm: Band 2
Senior Statespeople: Masaru Ono
Leading Individual: Naoya Ariyoshi

Competition/Antitrust
Leading Firm: Band 1
Leading Individual: Kozo Kawai, Madoka Shimada
Up and Coming: Kazumaro Kobayashi

Construction
Spotlight Table

Corporate/M&A
Leading Firm: Band 1
Leading Individual: Asa Shinkawa, Yoshinobu Fujimoto, Hiroshi Uchima, Yo Ota, Tatsuya Tanigawa, 
Ryutaro Nakayama, Takahiko Date, Yuki Oi

Crisis Management
Spotlight Table: Hiroshi Kimeda, Kei Umebayashi, Kaku Hirao 

Dispute Resolution:
Leading Firm (Domestic): Band 1
Leading Firm (International)*: Band 2
Leading Individual: Hiroyuki Tezuka, Akihiro Hironaka, Yutaro Kawabata, Lars Markert, 
Chie Nakahara

Employment
Leading Firm: Band 3

Insurance
Leading Firm: Band 1
Senior Statespeople: Shinichi Takahashi
Leading Individual: Takuya Oshida

Intellectual Property
Leading Firm: Band 3
Leading Individual: Yoshiyuki Miyashita, Hitomi Iwase

International Trade
Leading Firm: Band 1
Leading Individual: Kozo Kawai, Kojiro Fujii
Up and Coming: Masahiro Heike 

Investment Funds
Leading Firm: Band 2
Leading Individual: Makoto Igarashi, Kei Ito, Yoshiharu Kawamata

Life Sciences
Leading Firm: Band 3
Leading Individual: Mariko Mimura

Projects & Energy
Leading Firm (Domestic): Band 1
Leading Firm (International)*: Band 4
Leading Individual: Tomohiro Sato, Mikiko Soga, Alexander Woody, Adrian Joyce

Real Estate
Leading Firm: Band 1
Leading Individual: Yoshiaki Ikeda, Hiroshi Niinomi, Norio Maeda

Restructuring/Insolvency
Leading Firm: Band 1
Leading Individual: Kenichi Minami

Tax
Leading Firm: Band 2
Leading Individual: Yo Ota, Tsuyoshi Ito

Technology, Media, Telecoms (TMT)
Leading Firm: Band 1
Leading Individual: Hitomi Iwase, Kojiro Fujii

Osaka

General Business Law
Leading Firm: Band 1

Indonesia

Banking & Finance
Leading Firm: Band 4

Competition & Antitrust
Leading Firm: Band 3

Corporate/M&A
Leading Firm: Band 3
Leading Individual: Luky Walalangi, Miriam Andreta

Real Estate
Leading Firm: Band 3
Leading Individual: Luky Walalangi

Myanmar

General Business Law
Leading Firm: Band 3
Leading Individual: Yusuke Yukawa
Up and Coming: Kyi Chan Nyein

Singapore

Construction: International*
Leading Individual: Shintaro Uno

Thailand

Corporate/M&A
Leading Firm: Band 4
Leading Individual: Jirapong Sriwat, Christopher Osborne

Employment
Leading Firm: Band 2
Leading Individual: Chanakarn Boonyasith

Intellectual Property*
Leading Firm: Band 3
Eminent Practitioner: Chavalit Uttasart
Leading Individual: Pavinee Bunyamissara

Projects & Energy
Leading Individual: Christopher Osborne

Real Estate
Leading Firm: Band 3

Vietnam

Corporate/M&A*
Leading Firm: Band 4
Expertise based abroad: Hikaru Oguchi

Real Estate
Leading Firm: Band 3
Leading Individual: Kazuhide Ohya

* Only Japanese law firm ranked.

About Chambers Asia-Pacific: Chambers Asia-Pacific is an annual guide to the Asia-Pacific legal 
market, and is compiled by the leading global legal publisher, Chambers and Partners, London, UK.
This year’s edition ranked law firms and legal practitioners based on in-depth interviews with key 
clients and lawyers in the market, assessments of recent works, independent research, and data 
analysis. Please visit the website of Chambers and Partners for more information.