Atsumi & Sakai
| Atsumi & Sakai | |
|---|---|
| legal form | chancellery |
| founding | 1994 |
| Seat | Chiyoda , Tokyo , Japan |
| Number of employees | > 200 (Jan. 2016) |
| Branch | Legal advice (finance law, corporate law, funds, procedural law / insolvency law, international business) |
| Website | http://www.aplaw.jp/en/ |
Atsumi & Sakai ( Japanese 渥 美 坂 井 法律 事務所 ・ 外国 法 共同 事業 , Atsumi Sakai Hōritsu Jimusho, Gaikokuhō Kyōdō Jigyō , dt. "Law firm Atsumi-Sakai") is a law firm headquartered in Tokyo , Japan.
history
The firm was founded in 1994 as Atsumi & Usui by a group of lawyers led by Hiroo Atsumi. The group came from the law firm Blakemore & Mitsuki. Since 2003 the firm has been known as Atsumi & Partners . It was the first Japanese law firm to take advantage of the option to set up a joint venture with foreign lawyers ( gaikokuhō kyōdō jigyō ). The law firm can now also advise on the law of the states of New York and California , US federal law, German law, Chinese law and the law of the state of Queensland as well as Australian federal law. Since the incorporation of a practice group at the law firm TMI Associates, the law firm bears its current name Atsumi & Sakai. In 2013 the firm entered into a partnership with the Janssen Foreign Law Office. The law firm is a so-called full-service law firm and its advice covers all essential areas of law. The firm officially has five practice groups: Financing, Business Law, Funds, Litigation and Insolvency Law and International Practice.
With the opening of an office in London (Atsumi & Sakai Europe Limited (“A&S Europe”)) in January 2015, Atsumi & Sakai became the first and only Japanese law firm with an office in an EMEA region . In mid-2015, an office in Germany (Atsumi Sakai Janssen Rechtsanwaltsgesellschaft mbH) was opened together with Atsumi & Sakai Janssen Foreign Law Joint Enterprise, initially based in Berlin and since the end of 2015 also in Frankfurt am Main.
The Legal 500 ranks Atsumi & Sakai as a Level 1 firm for securitisations and structured finance, antitrust and competition law, labor law, telecommunications, media and technology, and construction law, and as a Level 2 firm for banking and finance law, dispute resolution, projects and energy law, Real estate law, restructuring and insolvency law, transport law and level 3 for business law and M&A as well as industrial property rights. IFLR sees the law firm as level 1 in capital market law: structured finance and securitisations and level 2 for banking law, project finance, energy and infrastructure, and “highly ranked” for M&A and capital market law: debt financing.
The Japanese MP and former Minister of State for Financial Services, Yuji Yamamoto, is an advisor to the firm.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Expert Guides - Home. In: Expert Guides. Retrieved September 26, 2016 .
- ↑ 渥 美 総 合 法律 事務所 ・ 外国 法 共同 事業 ｜ 伊藤 塾. (No longer available online.) In: www.itojuku.co.jp. Archived from the original on May 1, 2013 ; Retrieved September 26, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Atsumi & Sakai Janssen Foreign Law Joint Enterprise. In: Atsumi & Sakai Janssen Foreign Law Joint Enterprise. Retrieved September 26, 2016 (American English).
- ↑ Practice Group System | Atsumi & Sakai. In: www.aplaw.jp. Retrieved September 26, 2016 .
- ^ The Firm | Atsumi & Sakai. In: www.aplaw.jp. Retrieved September 26, 2016 .
- ^ Atsumi & Sakai Janssen Foreign Law Joint Enterprise. In: Atsumi & Sakai Janssen Foreign Law Joint Enterprise. Retrieved September 26, 2016 (American English).
- ^ The Legal 500> Atsumi & Sakai> Tokyo, JAPAN> What we say. In: www.legal500.com. Retrieved September 26, 2016 .
- ↑ IFLR1000. Retrieved November 29, 2013 .
- ↑ 山 本 有 二 (顧問) | 渥 美 坂 井 法律 事務所 ・ 外国 法 共同 事業. In: www.aplaw.jp. Retrieved September 26, 2016 .
