- Awards
Top Tier in The Legal 500 Asia Pacific 2020
Leading Japanese law firm Nishimura & Asahi has collected high honors across a wide variety of practices in Japan listed below and individual lawyers have been selected as “Leading Individuals” and as “Next Generation Partners” by The Legal 500 Asia Pacific 2020 guide, published by LegalEase Ltd., London, UK.
In addition to the numerous rankings earned by our firm’s Japan practice, Nishimura & Asahi received recognition for our Corporate/M&A and Real Estate practices in Vietnam.
For The Legal 500 series, more than 300,000 corporate counsel are surveyed and interviewed globally each year. The Legal 500 is an independent guide to the legal profession which caters to the needs of corporate counsel by focusing on the strength in depth of law firms’ teams (practice and associates).
Japan
Antitrust and Competition
Leading Firm: Tier 1
Leading Individual: Kozo Kawai
Banking and Finance
Leading Firm: Tier 1
Leading Individual: Katsu Sengoku
Next Generation Partner: Takashi Saito
Capital Markets
Leading Firm: Tier 1
Leading Individual: Masaru Ono, Kohei Koikawa
Corporate and M&A
Leading Firm: Tier 1
Leading Individual: Masaki Hosaka, Katsuyuki Yamaguchi
Dispute Resolution
Leading Firm: Tier 1
Leading Individual: Hiroyuki Tezuka
Next Generation Partner: Yutaro Kawabata, Lars Markert
Intellectual Property
Leading Firm: Tier 1
Leading Individual: Yoshiyuki Miyashita
Next Generation Partner: Hitomi Iwase
Investment Funds
Leading Firm: Tier 1
Leading Individual: Kei Ito
Next Generation Partner: Yoshiharu Kawamata
Labour and Employment
Leading Firm: Tier 1
Next Generation Partner: Yuri Sugano
Projects and Energy
Leading Firm: Tier 1
Next Generation Partner: Maya Ito, Norio Maeda, Nathan Schmidt
Real Estate and Construction
Leading Firm: Tier 2
Leading Individual: Yoshihiko Kawakami, Shintaro Uno
Restructuring and Insolvency
Leading Firm: Tier 1
Leading Individual: Hideki Matsushima, Kenichi Minami
Risk Management and Investigations
Leading Firm: Tier 1
Leading Individual: Hiroshi Kimeda, Kei Umebayashi, Kaku Hirao
Tax
Leading Firm: Tier 1
Leading Individual: Kazuhiro Takei, Yo Ota
Vietnam
Corporate and M&A
Leading Firm: Tier 4
Real Estate and Construction
Leading Firm: Tier 3
Please visit the website of The Legal 500 for more information.