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15 Lawyers Selected for Asia Business Law Journal’s The A-List: Japan’s Top 100 Lawyers 2024
Asa has a long and successful history of advising domestic and foreign private equity firms and corporations on a broad range of M&As, corporate governance and securities law matters. She has outstanding strength and expertize in structuring high-profile, complex transactions involving multiple parties that require not only legal knowledge but strategic perspective and business acumen.
Asa Shinkawa has been a partner in the M&A/corporate group at Nishimura & Asahi since 2001. She has a long and successful history of advising Japanese and international corporations and private equity firms. Ms. Shinkawa has advised on mergers and acquisitions, tender offers, cross border transactions, domestic acquisitions and divestitures and going private transactions, restructurings and spin offs, joint ventures, and numerous other kinds of transactions and commercial arrangements. Ms. Shinkawa has been recognized as one of the world's leading lawyers in the field of Corporate/Mergers and Acquisitions in Chambers Global - The World's Leading Lawyers for Business, since 2009, and is ranked as one of the top practitioners in Japan in the field of Corporate/M&A. She was awarded "Dealmaker of the Year" at the ALB Japan Law Awards 2022, "Dealmaker of the Year, North Asia" at the ALB Women in Law Awards 2021 and "Woman Lawyer of the Year" at the ALB Japan Law Awards 2020, "M&A Deal of the Year” at the IFLR Asia-Pacific Awards 2022, "Private Equity Deal of the Year” at The Asia Legal Awards 2021 and "Legal Expertise: Creating a New Standard” at the Financial Times Asia-Pacific Innovative Lawyer Awards 2019, and has received many other accolades. In addition, she has advised on M&A transactions and integrations/business combinations between public corporations in which merger control considerations were a critical prerequisite for the consummation of the transactions. Ms. Shinkawa has also advised extensively on the application of antitrust law in relation to joint ventures, business alliances and other types of cooperative arrangements between competitors, sole-distributorship arrangements, distribution agreements, dealer agreements and license arrangements. She was engaged in the reform of the electricity system in Japan, as an expert member of governmental committees under the Electricity and Gas Market Surveillance Commission and various committees of the Advisory committees for Natural resourse and Energy of the METI from 2015 to 2021.
Representative Work
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- 2024.4
- Mitsubishi Electric Corporation: Joint Venture with Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd.
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- 2023.12
- ITOCHU Corporation - Acquisition of shares in ITOCHU Techno-Solutions Corporation
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- 2023.10
- SBI Holdings, Inc. – Acquisition of shares in SBI Shinsei Bank, Ltd.
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- 2023.8
- Pattern Energy Group LP: Transfer of shares in Green Power Investment Corporation to NTT Anode Energy Corporation and JERA Co., Inc.
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- 2021
- Goldman Sachs Securities Co., Ltd. - Sale of Japan Renewable Energy Co. Ltd.
Awards & Rankings
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Nishimura & Asahi Receives Top Rankings in Chambers Global 2024
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Outstanding Results for Nishimura & Asahi at the Legal 500 Asia Pacific 2024
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Nishimura & Asahi Highly Recognized by Who's Who Legal in 2023
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Nishimura & Asahi receives top rankings in Chambers Asia-Pacific 2024
Seminars
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Defences against shareholder activism (IBA 2019 Seoul)
Seoul
External Seminars
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Public and private M&A transactions from Asia Pacific to the West
Sydney
External Seminars
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Strategy, Tactics and Ethics in the Negotiation of Transactions
Tokyo
External Seminars
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Joint Venture Critical Issues: Governance, Competition, and Exit
Vancouver
External Seminars
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M&A in the Pharmaceutical Industry
Tokyo
External Seminars
Publications
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Getting the Deal Through - Private Equity (Transactions) 2024: Japan
Books
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Getting the Deal Through - Private Equity (Transactions) 2023: Japan
Articles
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Getting the Deal Through - Private Equity 2022: Japan (Transactions)
Articles
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Getting the Deal Through - Private Equity 2021: Japan (Transactions)
Articles
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Getting the Deal Through - Private Equity 2020: Japan (Transactions)
Articles
News
Education
- 1997
- Harvard Law School (LL.M.)
- 1989
- The University of Tokyo (LL.B.)
Professional Experience
- Outside Director, Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings, Inc.
- Member of Working Group on Organization for Cross-regional Coordination of Transmission Operators, Electricity and Gas Industry Committee, Advisory Committee for Natural Resources and Energy,Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry
- Outside Director, Nintendo Co., Ltd.
- Member of the Study Group of Establishing Sustainable Electricity System, Strategic Policy Committee, Advisory Committee for Natural Resources and Energy, Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry
- Visiting Professor, University of Tokyo Graduate Schools for Law and Politics
- Member of the Subcommittee on Electricity Resilience towards a Decarbonized Society, Agency for Natural Resources and Energy, Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry
- Member of the Study Group for matters related to the New Power Platform utilizing the Next Generation Technologies, Agency for Natural Resources and Energy, Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry
- Member of the Subcommittee on Large-volume Introduction of Renewable Energy and Next-Generation Electricity Network, Advisory Committee for Natural Resources and Energy, Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry
- Member of the Expert Committee for System Design under the Electricity and Gas Market Surveillance Commission, Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry
- Member of the Expert Committee on Tendering Systems of Thermal Power Supply under the Electricity Market Surveillance Commission, Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry
- Member of the Working Group on Tendering Systems of Thermal Power Supply, Electricity and Gas Industry Committee of the Agency for Natural Resources and Energy, Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry
- Lecturer, Waseda Law School (Corporate reorganization and M&A)
- Arnold & Porter, Washington, D.C.