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Nishimura & Asahi Achieves Global Expansion and Highest Japan Rankings at IFLR1000 2024
Ryutaro Nakayama is the Managing Partner of Nishimura & Asahi. He has advised on a number of landmark transactions, utilizing his unique combination of corporate and antitrust skills.
Ryutaro Nakayama specializes in General Corporate and M&A work, and advises clients on a broad range of issues and transactions relating to M&A, Japanese corporate, securities, tax, and merger control laws, and regulations specific to various industries. He is a leading lawyer in the field of competition law in Japan, and possesses a unique set of skills and experience, drawn from his extensive experience handling M&A, corporate, and merger control cases and transactions. He has obtained transaction clearances from competition authorities even where the resulting combined market share exceeded 50% in the relevant markets. He has led Nishimura & Asahi’s Africa Practice Team since its formation in 2014. He has established a strong network of connections with Japanese entrepreneurs and businesses that target the African continent, as well as with leading law firms based in Africa. He has been named a leading lawyer in the fields of Corporate/M&A and/or competition law by various publications, including Chambers Global, Chambers Asia-Pacific, and The Nikkei’s annual rankings of “Most Successful Lawyers.” He was appointed the Managing Partner of Nishimura & Asahi in April 2021.
Representative Work
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- 2022
- Sponsors led by J-Will Partners Co., Ltd. - Investment in Nichi-Iko Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.
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- 2022
- Idemitsu Kosan Co., Ltd. - Acquisition of TOA Oil Co., Ltd. through a tender offer
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- 2021
- Advantage Partners Inc. and Tokyo Century Corporation: Acquisition of Showa Denko Materials Co., Ltd.’s energy storage devices and systems business
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- 2015 -
- Business integration between Idemitsu Kosan and Showa Shell Sekiyu
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- 2011 - 2013
- Merger between Nippon Steel and Sumitomo Metal
Awards & Rankings
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15 Lawyers Selected for Asia Business Law Journal’s The A-List: Japan’s Top 100 Lawyers 2024
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Nishimura & Asahi Receives Top Rankings in Chambers Global 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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Ryutaro Nakayama and Yuri Sugano were interviewed at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2023 (Davos)
Davos
External Seminars
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Recent Development in Merger Regulation
Wuhan
External Seminars
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Tech M&A 2.0: How to successfully navigate cross-border deals in an ever-changing environment
Tokyo
External Seminars
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Diversifying M&A Structure
Tokyo
External Seminars
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Who would want to be a director?
Madrid
External Seminars
Publications
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Japanese Anti - monopoly Act - Annotated Second Edition
Books
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Getting the Deal Through - Shareholder Activism & Engagement 2020: Japan
Articles
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Getting the Deal Through 2019 - Shareholder Activism & Engagement: Japan
Articles
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Corpus Juris M&A - Completely Revised Edition (first volume) (second volume)
Books
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Study on M&A Contracts
Books
News
Education
- 2006
- New York University School of Law (LL.M.)
- 1997
- University of Tokyo Graduate Schools for Law and Politics (LL.M.)
- 1995
- The University of Tokyo (LL.B.)
Professional Experience
- Managing Partner
- Professor from Practice, The Business Law Department of Hitotsubashi University Graduate School of Law
- Lecturer, Seikei University Law School
- Lecturer, Chuo Law School
- Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP, New York