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Nishimura & Asahi and Atsushi Mizushima selected for Startups’ Reliable Law Firms and Lawyers in The Nikkei NEXT Unicorn Survey 2023
Execution Design provides solutions to tech companies for their business structuring and transaction strategies, and supports them with decision making, negotiation and execution of business transactions.
Atsushi combines his experience as an entrepreneur in Silicon Valley and his broad experience as a business attorney to provide solutions to tech companies and startups, including the design of transaction flows and contractual frameworks in business model creation, fundraising, various types of business collaboration with large corporations, IP strategy building, global business expansion, and strategic M&A and joint venture deals. For larger corporations, he advises on business collaboration with companies in other industry domains and on investments in and business collaborations with startups as well as on their new business model creation.
Awards & Rankings
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Most innovative Japanese law firm: FT Innovative Lawyers Asia-Pacific Awards 2023
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Shortlisted for “Most Innovative Law Firm in Asia Pacific”: FT Innovative Lawyers Asia-Pacific Awards 2023
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Asian Law Firm of the Year at the Asia Legal Awards 2021
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The Asia Legal Awards 2021
Seminars
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Space Risk Governance
Tokyo
External Seminars
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SPACETIDE 2024, "Accelerating Cislunar Development: What are Industrial Legal Challenges? How to Overcome Them?"
Tokyo
External Seminars
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JAPAN INNOVATION DAY 2024 by ASCII STARTUP, "Startup crosses the ocean"
Tokyo
External Seminars
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“Legal Skills and the Legal Policy Environment in the Space Business,” Space Law Seminar, Dai-Ichi Tokyo Bar Association
Online
External Seminars
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A global perspective on financing space
studio in the headquarter of Financial Times in London
External Seminars
Publications
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Tokyo University Grad Super Brains
Books
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Legal Issues on Investment in Startups
Transcripts of lectures
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The 3rd Space Exploration and Space Resource Development
Articles
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Corpus Juris M&A - Completely Revised Edition (first volume) (second volume)
Books
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Treatise on Japanese Taxation, Third Edition
Books
News
- Notices
- Atsushi Mizushima participated as a panelist at "Investing in Space" by The Financial Times
- Notices
- Legal and Accounting Guidebook for Collaboration with Vietnamese Startups
- Media
- New working model with start-ups from an IP professional's point of view
- Media
- Interview: The Nikkei Evening and The Nikkei Online
- Media
- Interview: Attorney's MAGAZINE Vol. 62 (March 2018)
Education
- 2018
- International Space University, Executive Space Course
- 2013
- Stanford Graduate School of Business (MBA)
- 2004
- The University of Tokyo (LL.B.)
Professional Experience
- Lecturer, Hitotsubashi University School of Law
- Lecturer, Keio University Law School
- Outside Director, Macromill, Inc.
- Director, SPACETIDE Foundation
- Committee Member, SPACETIDE Committee
- Mentor, Boomtown Accelerator
- Starting Member of WHILL, Inc. (Silicon Valley-based Startup)
- Lecturer, Seikei University Law School