About
The smartest business solutions come when we work together – international, but operating as one integrated team. Collaborative, agile and partner-led: that’s Simmons & Simmons. A law firm that challenges, creates new possibilities and offers opinion not just option. A law firm that acts as your business partner and works with you, not for you. We focus on five highly regulated sectors (asset management and investment funds, financial institutions, healthcare and life sciences and technology, media and telecommunications, energy, natural resources, infrastructure and construction) – using our specialist skills to understand your business, and the forces at play around it. All grounded in exceptional knowledge of the legal detail. This is how we consistently deliver smarter, more efficient ways to tackle our clients’ most complex challenges. ### Languages - Bulgarian - Cantonese - Mandarin - Russian - Spanish - Dutch - English - French - German - Hakka) - Hindi - Japanese - Korean ### Memberships - American Chamber of Commerce - AIMA - Asian Transformation and Turnaround Association (ATTA) - ISDA - British Chamber of Commerce - European Chamber of Commerce - Economist Intelligence Unit - French Chamber of Commerce ### Staffing Figures - 858 Number of lawyers - 8 at this office
Office locations
Tokyo
Tokyo
Simmons & Simmons 23rd Floor, Roppongi Hills Mori Tower Roppongi, Minato-ku Tokyo 106-6123 Tokyo Japan
Practice areas
Lawyers in this office
Aaron Patience
Aaron heads our Tokyo office. He specialises in guiding Japanese businesses through international corporate transactions and global businesses on their Japanese operations. A fluent Japanese speaker who has lived in Japan for over 10 years, Aaron advises Japanese businesses on all areas of cross-border M&A, including sales, acquisitions and alliances in a variety of sectors, including TMT and Healthcare & Life Sciences. His experience includes acting on the full range of corporate and commercial documentation, including in connection with share sales, business sales, shareholders’ arrangements and business alliances, transitional services arrangements, supply and distribution agreements and licences of IP. · Mergers and Acquisitions
Jason Daniel
Jason is a senior partner in our Corporate & Commercial group. He has wide experience of advising on private and public M&A, joint ventures, strategic alliances, investment transactions, reorganisations and general corporate and commercial matters. Jason has a particular focus on cross-border transactions and matters and has led the teams on many of the firm’s highest-profile mandates. He has significant experience in a number of sectors, including financial services, asset management, real estate and technology. For a number of years he led the firm’s Corporate practice in Asia. He is a Japanese speaker and acts as advisor to a number of leading Japanese groups on their activities internationally. · Corporate and Commercial