About

Provided by Nagashima Ohno & Tsunematsu

As one of Japan’s leading law firms, Nagashima Ohno & Tsunematsu provides its clients with strategic and business-orientated legal advice on all aspects of general corporate matters and M&A transactions. With tailor-made and practical solutions, we help our international clients to maneuver through the Japanese legal environment including comprehensive market-entry support.


The firm has a vast network of relationships with foreign companies and law firms that provide it with a unique perspective when representing clients in international deals. Our overseas network includes offices in New York, Singapore, Bangkok, Ho Chi Minh City, Hanoi, Jakarta* and Shanghai.  The firm also maintains collaborative relationships with prominent local law firms across Asia and other regions. We regularly handle and coordinate matters involving complex legal issues in a number of Asian jurisdictions. As a pioneering Japanese law firm that has established its presence in New York, our activities in the United States and throughout the Americas and Europe are expanding rapidly. The firm strives to meet the needs of both its international clients operating in Japan and Asia and its domestic clients operating outside Japan or seeking to expand their operations overseas.

(*Associate office)

For more details, please visit our website:

https://www.noandt.com/en/practices/corporate/

https://www.noandt.com/en/practices/m_and_a/

Chambers Review

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Corporate/M&A: Domestic - Japan

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What the Team is Known For

Nagashima Ohno & Tsunematsu maintains a superb market reputation for undertaking sophisticated domestic and cross-border transactions pertaining to stock and company acquisitions, joint ventures, asset transfers and takeover bids. The team is instructed by foreign multinationals in the sale of equity stakes in domestic companies and is also adept in business consolidations. The firm is counsel of choice for some of the biggest household-name corporations in Japan, assisting clients from a wide range of sectors including finance, life sciences and manufacturing.

Work Highlights

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  • Nagashima Ohno & Tsunematsu served as a lead counsel for the board of directors and the special committee of Toshiba on its sale to a consortium led by Japan Industrial Partners.

Strengths

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Notable Practitioners

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Hiroki Inoue
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Eminent Practitioners
Hiroki Inoue is a highly esteemed practitioner with considerable experience in the market. His wide-ranging expertise covers M&A, private equity, capital markets and venture capital transactions.
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Yuko Tamai
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Yuko Tamai enjoys a stellar reputation in this practice area and continues to advise high-profile Japanese clients on acquisitions and joint ventures.

It is indisputable that Yuko Tamai is one of Japan's leading lawyers.

Tomohiko Iwasaki
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Tomohiko Iwasaki
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Tomohiko Iwasaki is sought after for his advice on significant domestic and cross-border transactions.

Iwasaki is easy to work with for his communication skills, knowledge around the matter and his willingness to go the extra mile.

Soichiro Fujiwara
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Soichiro Fujiwara
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Band 4
Soichiro Fujiwara is a well-known corporate practitioner in the market. His established reputation in the M&A field includes advising on cross-border transactions.
Ryuji Sakai
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Ryuji Sakai
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Ryuji Sakai represents both domestic and international clients in M&A matters, frequently acting for major corporates from a variety of sectors.
Keigo Sawayama
Keigo Sawayama
Expertise Based Abroad

Keigo Sawayama is Nagashima Ohno & Tsunematsu's office head in Hanoi and frequently advises Japanese clients on international construction, real estate and corporate transactions.

Motohisa Nakagawa
Expertise Based Abroad

Motohisa Nakagawa is head of the Ho Chi Minh City office of Nagashima Ohno & Tsunematsu. He advises on a range of real estate transactions, including office and residential buildings.

Ryo Okubo
Ryo Okubo
Expertise Based Abroad

Ryo Okubo is co-head of Nagashima Ohno & Tsunematsu's New York office and frequently advises on cross-border transactions between Japan and the USA.

Yoshikazu Hasegawa
Expertise Based Abroad

Yoshikazu Hasegawa is a partner in Nagashima Ohno & Tsunematsu's Singapore office and is an experienced adviser on corporate transactions.

Ranked Lawyers at
Nagashima Ohno & Tsunematsu

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Japan

Corporate/M&A

Keigo Sawayama
Keigo Sawayama
Vietnam expertise based abroad
Ryo Okubo
Ryo Okubo
USA expertise based abroad
Yoshikazu Hasegawa
Singapore expertise based abroad
Corporate/M&A: Domestic

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Hiroki Inoue
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Eminent Practitioners
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Yuko Tamai
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Tomohiko Iwasaki
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Tomohiko Iwasaki
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Band 3
Soichiro Fujiwara
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Soichiro Fujiwara
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Band 4
Ryuji Sakai
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Ryuji Sakai
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Band 5
Real Estate

Motohisa Nakagawa
Vietnam expertise based abroad