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Fumihide Sugimoto

Asia-Pacific 2026

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Practice Areas

Corporate governance, takeover defence, financial regulations and compliance matters, including regulatory investigations, corporate restructuring

and consolidation, listed company disclosure issues, various financial transactions, including offerings of debt, equity and other securities as well as

asset finance.

Career

Joined Tsunematsu Yanase & Sekine (currently Nagashima Ohno & Tsunematsu) in 1989 ;worked as a visiting attorney at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP in New York from 1993 to 1994 ; worked at SBC Warburg Securities (currently UBS) in Tokyo in 1995; became a partner of Tsunematsu Yanase & Sekine (currently Nagashima Ohno & Tsunematsu) in 1996; became Co-Managing Partner of Nagashima Ohno & Tsunematsu from 2015 to 2023; became Co-Chair of the firm in 2024.

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Chambers Asia & Pacific

Capital Markets: Domestic - Japan

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Fumihide Sugimoto is a senior figure in the firm's capital markets team and a skilled adviser to issuers and underwriters of debt issuances.

Strengths

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  • He is not only technically very strong but also practical.

    Capital Markets: DomesticChambers Asia & Pacific

Ranked Individuals at Nagashima Ohno & Tsunematsu (52)

Japan

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