Formed in 1948, Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom is a New York-based international law firm with 1,700 lawyers across 22 offices. The firm’s Tokyo office was established in 1987 and operates as a gaikokuho kyodo jigyo (foreign law joint enterprise).

Focusses / specialisms 

The firm’s Tokyo team is staffed with bengoshi licensed to practice law and appear in Japanese courts. Its core focus is on structuring and negotiating public and private mergers, acquisitions and joint ventures involving Japanese entities. Its capital markets team handles IPOs, follow-on equity offerings, J-REIT offerings, investment grade and high yield debt offerings, sovereign debt offerings and insurance hybrid debt offerings. The team also assists clients in restructurings and in the formation of investment funds.

Key clients 

Key clients of the firm include Toshiba, Sumitomo Mitsui Finance and Leasing, NTT Group, Daiwa Securities, Visional, Janus Henderson Group and Sanken Electric.