Yuki Oi > Nishimura & Asahi > Tokyo, Japan > Lawyer Profile

Nishimura & Asahi
OTEMON TOWER, 1-1-2 OTEMACHI
CHIYODA-KU
TOKYO 100-8124
Japan

Work Department

MA/Corporate practice

Position

Partner, Tokyo

Career

Yuki Oi is a partner in our M&A/Corporate practice group. He advises domestic and international corporations and financial institutions on their cross-border and domestic M&A transactions. He also handles corporate governance matters and general corporate issues, as well as corporate crisis management matters and commercial litigation.

Some of the major cases he has advised on include representing UFJ Holdings on its integration with Mitsubishi Tokyo Financial Group (2006), Bulldog Sauce on its famous defense against a hostile takeover attempt initiated by Steel Partners (2007), the Osaka Securities Exchange on its integration with the Tokyo Stock Exchange (2011), Idemitsu Kosan on its integration with Showa Shell Sekiyu (2015-19), Toshiba on its divestiture of Toshiba Memory Corporation (2018), and Honda on its strategic alliance with Sony Group in mobility sector (2022).

He was awarded the Young Lawyer of the Year Award at the ALB Japan Law Awards 2019, and the Innovative Practitioners Award at the FT Innovative Lawyers Awards Asia-Pacific 2020. He was also selected as one of Asia’s top 40 lawyers under 40 by Asian Legal Business in 2017.

He has also served as a lecturer at the University of Tokyo, Faculty of Law (2012-13), and Graduate Schools for Law and Politics (2014-present).

Languages

Japanese, English

Memberships

2009 | Admitted in New York
2002 | Admitted in Japan

Education

2010 | Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University (MBA with Distinction)
2008 | Columbia Law School (LL.M., Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar)
2001 | The University of Tokyo (LL.B.)

Lawyer Rankings

Japan > Corporate and M&A: Independent local firms

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Yuki OiNishimura & Asahi

The team at Nishimura & Asahi assist clients in transactions that do not only involve corporate laws and securities regulations, but also tax, antitrust, intellectual property, or bankruptcy. The team is jointly led by Asa Shinkawa and Yoshinobu Fujimoto, who advise domestic and foreign clients on complex corporate governance, joint ventures, and corporate defence against activist shareholders. While Yo Ota specialises in tax and corporate cross-border transactions, Takahiko Date focuses on management buyouts and restructuring transactions. Yuki Oi is also noted for expertise in large-scale M&A and corporate affairs.