Mr Keigo Sawayama > Nagashima Ohno & Tsunematsu > Hanoi, Vietnam > Lawyer Profile

Nagashima Ohno & Tsunematsu
SUITE 10.04, CORNERSTONE BUILDING
16 PHAN CHU TRINH, HOAN KIEM DISTRICT
HANOI CITY
Vietnam

Position

Head of Nagashima Ohno & Tsunematsu Hanoi Branch, providing legal services to Japanese affiliated companies to invest and/or expand their business into Vietnam and other south-east Asian countries, and to Vietnamese companies to invest into Japan. Practice area includes General corporate, M&A, Real Estate Transactions, Banking and Project Finance.

Career

He joined Nagashima Ohno & Tsunematsu in 2005 and has continued working here up to the present. In the meantime, he graduated from Harvard Law School (LL.M.) in 2011 and then was on a temporary assignment at Allens Hanoi from 2011 to March 2014. He has been registered as a foreign legal practitioner with the Vietnamese Ministry of Justice since 2011. He worked at Nagashima Ohno & Tsunematsu Singapore LLP from May 2014 to March 2015.

Languages

Japanese, English

Memberships

Daiichi Tokyo Bar Association (2005)

Education

The University of Tokyo (LL.B.), Harvard Law School (LL.M.)

Lawyer Rankings

Vietnam > Real estate and construction

Housing a team with ‘a wealth of knowledge and experience in real estate matters’, Nagashima Ohno & Tsunematsu specialises in providing legal assistance to Japanese investors on real estate development, construction, acquisition, ownership and leasing mandates in Vietnam. The group is co-led by Motohisa Nakagawa in Ho Chi Minh City who has a ‘sharp mind with commercial sense’ and Keigo Sawayama in Hanoi, both of whom have considerable expertise handling real estate matters.

Vietnam > Corporate and M&A

Advising Japanese investors seeking to acquire shares in Vietnamese companies or establish themselves in Vietnam, Nagashima Ohno & Tsunematsu advises on a range corporate mandates and M&A. The practice is co-headed by Motohisa Nakagawa in Ho Chi Minh City and Keigo Sawayama in Hanoi, who are both corporate and M&A specialists with extensive experience advising on transactions.