Lawyers in Japan

Chihiro Tominaga

Partner

Ushijima & Partners

Chiho Saito

So & Sato Law Offices

Dai Katagiri

Partner

Mori Hamada

Daichi Kiriyama

Counsel

Baker McKenzie (Gaikokuho Joint Enterprise)

Daisuke Fukamizu

Partner

Nagashima Ohno & Tsunematsu

Daisuke Mure

Daisuke Mure has an expertise in complicated and wide-ranging employment laws and regulations, and provides consulting services on personnel and employment issues to client-companies in all industries and of all sizes. He has represented clients in various court proceedings such as litigation, provisional disposition proceedings and labor dispute adjudication proceedings, as well as proceedings before the Labor Relations Commission including claims seeking an order for relief.

Oh-Ebashi LPC & Partners

Daisuke Takagi

Partner, practicing in securitization, asset finance and real estate transactions (including the formation and operation of real estate funds and J-REITs, and cross-border real estate investment)

Nagashima Ohno & Tsunematsu

Daisuke Tokumaru

Partner

Iwata Godo

Daisuke Tsuta

Partner

Mori Hamada

Daisuke Tsuzuki

Partner

Atsumi & Sakai

Dale Caldwell

Partner

Morrison Foerster

Daniel Allen

Partner specializing in international arbitration and investor-state dispute settlement.

Mori Hamada

David Albagli

Local Partner

White & Case LLP - White & Case Law Offices (Registered Association)

David Azcue

David Azcue is a Partner in Simpson Thacher's Tokyo office, and co-heads the Firm's Private Funds Practice in Japan. He joined the Firm in 2006 and has spent 16 years in the Firm’s Tokyo office and 2 years in the Firm’s Beijing office. David’s practice focuses on advising fund sponsors in connection with all aspects of fundraising across a broad range of asset classes, co-investments, GP stakes, and secondary transactions. He also advises sponsors on structuring, financing, operations, and other related matters. He represented many of the leading sponsors and asset managers in Japan and across Asia. David has also been a speaker and moderator at various conferences, including the Fund Finance Associates (FFA) Japan and APAC Symposium in 2024, and frequently writes about private equity trends and developments in Asia.

Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP

David Snowden

David Snowden is a Partner in Simpson Thacher’s Tokyo office. Since joining the Firm’s Tokyo office in 2010, David has worked with both Japanese issuers and international underwriters on a wide range of complex and significant securities offerings, including global IPOs by Japanese issuers, Rule 144A/Regulation S international debt and equity offerings, public offerings in the United States as well as debt tender offers, across several industries. His recent representations include Rigaku Holdings Corporation, Kokusai Electric Corporation and Skymark Airlines in their IPOs, Asahi Group Holdings and Japan Airlines in their follow-on offerings, as well as The Norinchukin Bank and Suntory Holdings in their notes offerings.

Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP

Eiichi Kanda

Eiichi Kanda specialises in real estate including investment, finance, development, funds, asset management and securitisation. Eiichi also advises both borrowers and lenders on structured financing, joint ventures and cross-border alliances between foreign and Japanese entities.

Clifford Chance (Gaikokuho Kyodo Jigyo)

Eiichiro Nakatani

Partner (Tax)

Anderson Mori & Tomotsune

Eiji Katayama

Managing Partner

Abe, Ikubo & Katayama

Eiji Kobayashi

Eiji has more than 20 years of experience in representing the world’s leading industrial conglomerates, including technology, automobile, real estate, and life sciences companies and financial institutions in cross-border mergers and acquisitions, corporate, projects, disputes and regulatory and investigation matters. His practice focuses on complex cross-border corporate and M&A matters, real estate, and other project matters. He also has wide-ranging experience representing companies and individuals in regulatory investigations matters, especially in the industrial, technology, life sciences, aviation and financial institutions industry sectors. Earlier in his career, Eiji worked at a major US M&A law firm, as co-head of the cross-border transactions group at the largest law firm in Japan, and as the chair of the corporate/M&A practice group in Japan for a global law firm. He has represented some of the world’s leading corporations.

Mayer Brown GJBJ

Eiji Miyagi

Partner. Real Estate/Energy&Infrastructure/Finance/Environment/Agriculture, Forestry, and Fisheries sectors

Nagashima Ohno & Tsunematsu

Eric Roose

Partner

Withers Japan

Eriko Ozawa

Partner

Mori Hamada

Eriko Sakata

Partner

White & Case LLP - White & Case Law Offices (Registered Association)

Frederick Ch’en

Office Managing Partner

Hogan Lovells Horitsu Jimusho Gaikokuho Kyodo Jigyo