Nagashima Ohno & Tsunematsu

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Partner; Main area of his work is capital markets, including debt, equity and hybrid securities, IPOs, follow-on and Samurai bonds, and financial regulations/compliance and governmental investigation.

Partner. His practice focuses on complex business transactions, including M&A, divestitures, spin-offs, joint ventures, strategic alliances, leveraged buyouts, private equity investing, restructuring and workouts, and recapitalizations. He also counsels clients in a wide variety of corporate matters, including corporate governance issues, and is often called upon to represent public companies involved in takeover and active shareholder defense.

Partner; IP Disputes; IP Transactions

Hiroyuki Ebisawa

Partner: Litigation, Dispute Resolution

Yutaro Fujimoto

Energy, Project Finance, Environmental Law

Hiroshi Fujiwara

Soichiro Fujiwara

Daisuke Fukamizu

Masayuki Fukuda

Securitization/Structured Finance/Trust; Banking; Asset Management/Fund; Real Estate Transactions; Real Estate Investment/Real Estate Securitization; J-REITs; Project Finance; Natural Resources and Energy; Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A); Wealth Management/Business Succession/Inheritance; Asia, India; Other Asian Jurisdictions; Casinos/Gambling

Kosuke Hamaguchi

Yoshikazu Hasegawa

Yoshikazu Hasegawa is a partner of Nagashima Ohno & Tsunematsu. He has extensive experience in cross-border mergers & acquisitions, joint ventures, energy and infrastructure and real estate projects involving Japan and Asia Pacific region. He also advises on wealth management matters for high net worth clients. He has been selected as a leading lawyer by Chambers Global in Corporate/ M&A area. He is also one of the top 15 private wealth lawyers in Asia (Asian Legal Business, 2022) and has been rated as a leading lawyer by Chambers and The Legal 500 Asia Pacific.

Takahiro Hatori

Partner: Intellectual Property, Dispute Resolution

Antitrust/Competition Law Advice, Antitrust Litigation/Investigation, Merger Control, Unreasonable Premiums and Misleading Representation Prevention Act and Subcontract Act, International Trade, General Corporate.

Partner, specializing in taxation; tax advice and planning; tax controversy and litigation.

Main area of practice is banking, energy, infrastructure and other projects (including PFIs and PPPs) and project finance.

Shinsuke Hiratsu

Partner (Tokyo Office)

Shinichiro Horaguchi

Partner: Mr. Horiuchi focuses on corporate restructuring and reorganization in the broadest sense: M&A, private equity investments, joint ventures, business alliances as well as tax advice and planning for the above. He has extensive experience in cross-border transactions and frequently provides such corporate and tax legal services to non-Japanese clients. He further routinely advises on transactional matters for pharmaceutical companies utilizing his pharmaceutical science background as a licensed pharmacist.

Satoshi Hosokawa

Yoshitoshi Imoto

Yoshitoshi Imoto is a partner at Nagashima Ohno & Tsunematsu. He advises on all aspects of competition law for both domestic and multi-national clients in connection with M&A, strategic alliance projects, IT/digital antitrust matters as well as cartel investigations and follow-on private lawsuits. He has abundant experiences and expertise in handling high-profile and complex mergers particularly in pharmaceutical industry, automobiles and electronics sectors. His recent professional highlights also include counseling for both domestic and international clients in relation to antitrust investigations on unilateral conduct. He successfully represented a third party claimant that suffered from the industry leader's exclusionary conduct that resulted in the authority's formal investigation.

M&A, including public tender offers, LBO/MBO, joint ventures, general corporate work, and investment in Asian countries

PartnerPractice focuses on real estate-related matters including real estate funds, real estate financing, real estate securitization and Japanese REIT (J-REIT) formation. Extensive experience with joint ventures and M&A transactions and also represents a wide range of clients, both domestic and foreign (regularly represents financial institutions, investment funds, and companies operating in various industries including real estate companies, construction companies, pharmaceutical companies, machinery manufacturers and chemical companies.).

Banking; Securitization/Structured Finance/Trust; Financial Regulations/Fund Management; Restructuring/Insolvency

Miyuki Ishiguro

Partner specialised in capital market transactions. Main area of work is domestic and global offering of debt and equity securities, private placement, initial public offering and share compesation transaction.

Hiroyuki Ishizuka

Main area of practice are financing/capital market transactions and corporate law, including securities offering, securities regulations, fund regulations such as private fund filing requirements, corporate governance and tender offer regulations.

Takashi Itokawa

Takashi Itokawa is a partner at Nagashima Ohno & Tsunematsu. His practice focuses on finance transactions and relevant regulatory matters, especially securities offerings by various issuers, including J-REITs, M&A finance, securitization, and structured finance. In addition, he also has extensive experience with real estate and M&A transactions and regularly handles cross-border transactions for both Japanese and foreign clients. His experience includes representing sponsors and listed companies in various finance transactions, such as private placement of common stock by listed companies, issuance of preferred stock and loans with stock acquisition rights, and debt equity swap transactions. In particular, in the field of real estate, he has provided extensive advice based on his experience working for a major Japanese real estate developer. He has been responsible for provision of legal analysis with respect to all forms of transactions/conduct of real estate-related companies, including M&A transactions, domestic and international issuance of securities, such as bonds and shares, formation of listed REITs (J-REITs), private REITs, and private funds, as well as their fund raising and management. He also provides legal advice on CRE strategies (corporate real estate strategies) and redevelopment projects, ESG (environmental, social, and governance) issues, legal risk analysis for every asset class, including logistics facilities and data centers, and real estate finance contract negotiations. In addition, he has provided legal advice on private equity and unlisted stocks. In the field of private equity and unlisted stock investment, he has provided advice on the formation and management of various types of funds, including partnership-type funds, M&A by private equity funds and related acquisition finance transactions (senior finance and mezzanine finance), as well as providing ongoing advice and exit strategies after acquisitions. Recently, he has been continuously contributing to sports industries from a legal perspective. to sports and e-sports industries from a legal perspective.

Tomohiko Iwasaki

Masatsura Kadota

Partner; Main area of work is capital markets and corporate law, including offering of debt and equity securities, IPOs, J-REIT and tender offer.

Partner; Dispute Resolution; Civil and Commercial Disputes; Labor and Employment; Employment Disputes; Product Safety, Product Compliance, Product Recall and Product Liability; General Corporate; Risk and Crisis Management

For over 25 years, Yosuke Kanegae has consistently focused on business restructuring and insolvency matters. Representing all stakeholders—including debtors, financial creditors, trade creditors, sponsors, investors, shareholders, and individual executives throughout all stages, from out-of-court workout to in-court proceedings, including risk assessment. Yosuke Kanegae is particularly strong in cases involving international elements, cases requiring the handling of complex financial schemes, and business restructuring cases requiring negotiations with a large number of interested parties. Yosuke Kanegae is also actively involved in litigation cases involving tax and accounting issues, and has represented taxpayers in several important tax lawsuits, winning judgments.

Yasuhiro Kasahara

Partner (Tokyo Office)

Partner; Sport, Entertainment, Real Estate, Finance

Terukazu Katsuyama

Partner. Sosuke Kimura is a career-long expert in the capital markets industry, who provides high-quality advice on securities offering transactions, covering all equity, debt and hybrid securities. He also has deep experience in M&A transactions, especially tender offer transactions in which listed companies go private.

Takahiro Kitagawa

Partner. He specializes in handling real estate and capital markets related matters. His experience covers real estate transactions, real estate securitization, real estate financing, formation and management of real estate funds (J-REITs and private funds), initial and follow-on public offering of J-REITs, and M&A transactions of real estate companies and J-REITs.

Nobuaki Kobayashi

Mr. Kobayashi has a wealth of practical experience handling high-profile insolvency and restructuring proceedings, including large-scale corporate reorganizations.

Tsutomu Kobayashi

Partner; he focuses on the development and operation of and project financing for energy and infrastructure projects including solar, onshore/offshore wind, biomass, geothermal and other renewable energy projects, thermal IPP projects and PFI/PPP projects, and also has considerable expertise in acquisition finance, real estate finance, structured finance, leasing and other banking areas gained through his experience at various financial institutions.

Partner (TMT/Startups/Entertainment and Sports)

Partner, practicing in capital markets (including offering of equity and debt securities of Japanese and non-Japanese companies) and securitization, banking and other finance transactions

Yoshinobu Koyama

Foreign Law Partner Gaikokuho Jimu Bengoshi

John is a disputes partner in the Tokyo office of Nagashima Ohno & Tsunematsu. He advises clients on cross-border litigation, regulatory misconduct, fraud, white-collar crime and contentious employment law matters across all sectors.

Yoshihiko Matake

Partner of NO&T’s crisis management and compliance practice team. His main area of practice is corporate crisis management, international dispute resolution, M&A, import and export controls and data protection regulation.

IP Transactions, Media, Entertainment and Sport, IP Disputes, IT and Telecommunications, General Corporate

Shinichi Matsui

General Corporate; Corporate Governance; Banking; Project Finance; Insurance; Risk and Crisis Management/Compliance; Restructuring/Insolvency; Disputes in Foreign Jurisdictions; IP Transactions; IP Disputes; IT and Telecommunications; Media; Entertainment and Sport; Natural Resources and Energy; Asia; North America and Latin America; Civil and Commercial Disputes; Maritime Commercial Law

Banking; acquisition finance, asset-based finance; project finance, structured finance; real estate; corporate, Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A)

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A); Tax Practice; Tax Advice and Planning; Tax Controversy

His practice focuses on M&A and corporate transactions, including inbound and outbound cross-border acquisitions, acquisitions by private equity funds, joint ventures and takeover defenses. He also advises on corporate governance matters and crisis management cases.

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

Yuichi Miyashita

Yuichi Miyashita is a partner of capital markets practice at Nagashima Ohno & Tsunematsu and has been recognized for his expertise in this area by Chambers Global (Band 3 rating for Capital Markets Domestic) and Chamers Asia-Pacific (Band 3 rating for Capital Markets Domestic), IFLR1000 (Highly regarded for Capital Markets), The Legal 500 Asia Pacific (Next Generation Partner for Capital Markets, Japan), Lexology Index (Recommended for Capital Markets, Japan) and the Best Lawyers in Japan (Capital Markets Law). He was also selected as “Lawyer of the Year” by the Best Layers in Japan (2026 edition) in capital market practice area. Chambers says that he “is active on capital markets transactions and regularly advises on significant IPOs and security token offerings. He wins praise from sources for his customer-centric approach to matters.” It also quotes clients who appreciate that “He proposes advice from a client’s perspective.”, “He is highly accessible, responsible, experienced and familiar with our practice.” and “I go to Miyashita on Japanese law matters. He is reliable and provides us with solid advice.” (Chambers Global 2024 and 2025) Yuichi utilizes his work experience at equity capital market division of a major investment bank. He handles a wide variety of capital market transactions, including IPOs, equity and debt primary/secondary follow-on offerings, third-party allotments, block trades and transactions of class shares, warrants, convertible bonds and security token offerings, in both domestic and international markets. Yuichi also advises on sustainable finance and sustainability disclosure. He has been awarded as “Green Ambassador” by The Legal 500 Asia-Pacific Green Guide 2024 and recognized for his strongest involvement with sustainability matters. In addition to his capital markets practice, he advises on financial regulations, M&A transactions, corporate governance and general corporate matters.

Takashi Miyazaki

Partner practicing Corporate, M&A and Banking.

Kyohei Mizukoshi

Partner. His practice focuses on capital market transactions, including IPOs, equity and debt financing. He also counsels clients in a wide variety of corporate matters, including corporate governance issues.

Naoki Mochizuki

Naoki Mochizuki is a partner at Nagashima Ohno & Tsunematsu. He advises on a broad range of finance transactions, including banking, real estate finance, project finance, insurance, and fund formation. He also has extensive experience in domestic and cross-border infrastructure projects, including public-private partnership (PFI/PPP) projects and energy-related transactions involving electricity and gas. He advises a variety of clients, including financial institutions, private funds, private companies, and corporate borrowers.

Satoshi Moriguchi

Asia, China, North America and Latin America, General Corporate, Corporate Governance, Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A), Banking, Financial Regulations/Financial Compliance, Securitization/Structured Finance/Trust, Civil and Commercial Disputes, Disputes in Foreign Jurisdictions, International Arbitration, Risk and Crisis Management/Compliance, Employment Law Advice, IP Transactions, Antitrust/Competition Law Advice, Unreasonable Premiums and Misleading Representation Prevention Act and Subcontract Act

Shuichi Nishimura

Partner (Competition/Antitrust)

Partner. His practice focuses on Banking. He has extensive experience in handling acquisition financing transactions and DIP financing transactions.

Kohei Okawa has mainly been involved in restructuring and insolvency cases and distressed M&A cases. He has a lot of experiences of corporate restructuring and insolvency, whether out-of-court or in-court.

Tomohiro Okawa is a partner at the Tokyo office of Nagashima Ohno & Tsunematsu. He has been mainly involved in cross-border transactions by leveraging a variety of deal experiences, such as business reorganization and insolvency, banking, and M&A. In particular, he has a wealth of experience in helping distressed companies as debtor’s counsel, whether in-court or out-of-court, including handling distressed M&A and DIP financing.

Private Equity, M&A, Acquisition Finance, Corporate, TMT, Space

Partner (M&A/Corporate & FDI/Export/Sanction/Technology Protection/Semiconductor/Defense/Other Economic Security Matters)

Financial Service Regulations; (Re)Insurance Transactions

Partner, specializing in capital markets; securitization/structured finance/trust; real estate investment/real estate securitization

Partner, specializing in tax and asset planning matters.

Corporate/M&A; General Corporate; Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A); Private Equity/Venture Capital; Securitization/Structured Finance/Trust; Acquisition Finance; Project Finance; Financial Regulations/Fund Management; Real Estate and J-REITs; Pharmaceutical and Health Care.

Partner. His practice focuses on corporate legal matters, including domestic and cross-border M&A transactions, private equity transactions, acquisition finance, and corporate control matters, including hostile takeover defense and activist response. He also advises on corporate governance, compliance, crisis management, and support for companies preparing for IPOs.

Partner practicing Financial Regulations and Fund Management, including provide advice on regulations relating to asset management, securities, banking and other financial services, assist in obtaining required licenses and registrations; assist in organising investment trusts, private investment funds and other investment vehicles; personal data protection; compliance matters; general corporate.

Tsuyoshi Shimizu

PartnerHis practice focuses on: General Corporate; Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A); Corporate Governance; Internal Control/Compliance; Risk and Crisis Management

Yoshifumi Shimoda

Partner: banking, real estate and energy

Fumihide Sugimoto

Partner/Co-Chair: Corporate governance, takeover defence, financial regulations and compliance matters, including regulatory investigations, corporate restructuring and consolidation, listed company disclosure issues, various financial transactions, including offerings of debt, equity and other securities as well as asset finance.

Pharmaceutical, Medical and Health Care; Financial Regulations; Asset Management/Fund Business; Corporate/M&A

General Corporate, Corporate Governance, Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A), Risk and Crisis Management/Compliance, Restructuring/Insolvency, Asia

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)

Partner. He specializes in handling cross-border and domestic mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, private equity, strategic alliances, activist defenses, and other corporate transactions. In particular, he has extensive experience in public tender offers and other public transactions.

Keiji is head of NO&T’s TMT Practice Team. Keiji’s practice focuses on M&A, IP/IT-related transactions, and data security/privacy matters. He has extensive experience representing global and local clients on complex business transactions as well as regulatory matters, with a particular focus on the TMT sectors, including new business fields such as AI/IoT, MaaS/CASE, Fintech, Blockchain/Crypto and NFT, as well as gaming and entertainment. Also, has been actively involved in the rule-making processes; for instance, he has served as a member of: “AI Institutional Research Group”(Cabinet Office) (2024-) “Project Team on Innovation and Implementation of AI” (Liberal Democratic Party of Japan) (2023-) “Research Group on Consumer Transactions in Digital Society” (Consumer Affairs Agency) (2024-) “web3 Project Team” (Liberal Democratic Party of Japan) (2022-) “Task Force for Creation of New Markets for Startups” (Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry) (2022-)

Dispute Resolution; IP, IT and Entertainment; IP Transactions; IP Litigation; General Corporate

Partner practicing Life Science, Pharmaceutical and Healthcare; Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A); Private Equity, Venture Capital and Startups; IP Transactions; Data Protection and Privacy; Global Investigations, Crisis Management and Compliance; General Corporate

M&A, corporate governance, overseas support services, environmental law and general corporate.

Takashi Tsukioka

Partner (Banking, Capital Markets, Securitization/Structured Finance, Derivatives, Infrastructure)

Financial Regulations (Banking Act, Financial Instruments and Exchange Act, Insurance Business Act)

Partner of Real Estate and J-REITs, Pharmaceutical and Health Care Chair of Real Estate Practice Team

Shejal Verma is a foreign law partner in the Tokyo office of Nagashima Ohno & Tsunematsu. She is dual-qualified (India and the UK) . Her practice covers a broad range of corporate matters, including mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, corporate restructurings, private equity investments, and business and asset purchases. She brings over a decade of cross-border experience to advising clients on complex transactions across a variety of sectors. Before joining Nagashima Ohno & Tsunematsu, Shejal began her career at one of India’s leading law firms, where she advised on some of the region’s most significant corporate deals.

Tsubasa Watanabe

Yoshihisa Watanabe

Atsushi Yamashita

Partner：Practicing in the capital markets area and providing advice relating to offering of equity and debt securities by Japanese and non-Japanese companies including major financial institutions in the Japanese market and overseas market, offering of fund interests in Japan, investment in start-up companies, granting of equity awards and securities law related issues including disclosure related issues and insider trading issues. Also practices in areas such as financial regulations, corporate and M&A, corporate governance and international dispute related matters.

Motohiro Yanagawa

Specializing in Securitization, Structured Finance, Corporate Finance and Trust practice, as well as Banking and Securities Regulations. Practice area also covers Real Estate Investment/Real Estate Securitization, Real Estate Transactions, J-REITs, Asset Management/Fund, Project Finance, Acquisition Finance, Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A), Financial Regulations/Financial Compliance, Restructuring/Insolvency, General Corporate, Asia, Philippines, North America and Latin America.

Koki Yanagisawa

Dispute Resolution; Employment and Labor Practice; Antitrust Practice; General Corporate; Risk and Crisis Management

Koichiro Yoshimura