Atsumi & Sakai

Managing Partners: Mr Hiroo Atsumi

Number of partners: 108

Number of lawyers: 210+

Languages: Japanese, English, German, Vietnamese, Chinese, Korean, Russian, French, Spanish, Italian, Hindi, Marathi, Sinhala, etc.

The Firm:

Atsumi & Sakai is a multi-award-winning, independent Tokyo law firm, and one of the ten largest independent full-service law firms in Japan. The firm was the first Japanese law firm to create a foreign law joint venture, which enables it to admit foreign partners and so offer its clients the quality of service that the modern international business community demands. Expanding from its highly regarded finance practice, the firm now acts for a wide range of international and domestic companies, banks, financial institutions and other businesses, offering a comprehensive range of legal expertise.

International Practice:

Atsumi & Sakai has an outward-looking approach to its international practice, and has foreign partners with extensive experience from leading international law firms, so providing its clients with the benefit of both Japanese law expertise and real international experience. In addition to lawyers admitted in Japan, our firm includes foreign lawyers registered in Japan to advise on the laws of the US States of New York and California, the People's Republic of China, the Republic of Korea, India, the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, England and Wales, and the State of Queensland, Australia, United States and Australian Federal laws, and the laws of the Federal Republic of Germany (in collaboration with Janssen Foreign Law Office).

In addition to our Tokyo head-office and Fukuoka affiliate office in Japan, we have offices in London and Brussels, and affiliated offices in New York and Frankfurt, so enabling us to provide quality services around the clock.

Main Areas of Practice:

■ Antitrust/Competition

■ Banking & Finance

■ Capital Markets/Securitisation, Structured Finance

■ Construction/Infrastructure

■ Corporate/M&A Corporate

■ Investigations/Anti-Corruption

■ Data Protection & Privacy

■ Dispute Resolution, Domestic & Cross-Border Litigation & Arbitration

■ Energy (including Oil & Gas, Renewable Energy)

■ Financial Services Regulation

■ Funds Regulation

■ Information Technology (AI/IoT)

■ Insolvency/Corporate Restructuring

■ Insurance

■ Intellectual Property

■ International Trade

■ Investment Funds/Joint Ventures

■ Labour & Employment

■ Life Sciences/Medical and Pharmaceutical Business

■ PFI/PPP

■ Private Equity & Venture Capital

■ Projects/Project Finance

■ Real Estate (Acquisition, Financing, Development)

■ Risk Management

■ Securities Regulation

■ Shipping/Aviation

■ Sports/Entertainment

■ Tax

■ TMT (Technology, Media & Telecommunications)

■ White-Collar Crime/Criminal Defence