Nishimura & Asahi

Nishimura & Asahi has established strong working relationships with law firms worldwide enabling the firm to focus effectively on international corporate and financial transactions, advising both Japanese and foreign clients at a competitive international standard. The firm has represented its international clients in establishing their business ventures in Japan and worldwide. Furthermore, it has advised a number of Japanese companies requiring legal representation in international investment projects both in and outside of Japan.

The firm has experienced, multilingual lawyers with specialized training, including advanced international law degrees from law schools in the US or the UK and secondments to firms in non-Japanese jurisdictions, including the US, UK and Australia.

Nishimura & Asahi's newly formed Corporate Crisis Management Group significantly enhances the firm's ability to provide comprehensive solutions for complicated and advanced commercial transactions (including cross-border transactions) based on a wide range of in-house legal resources, including corporate law, securities law, civil law, criminal law, administrative law, and related laws and regulations. In addition, the recent creation of a Cross-Border Transactions Group allows the firm to assist clients to an even greater extent with regard to international mergers and acquisitions, private equity investments and US capital markets transactions. These additional practice areas have bolstered the firm's reputation for providing its clients with superior legal advice and creative problem-solving.