Japan

Firm overview

Japan’s Largest International Law Firm:
Nishimura & Asahi is Japan’s largest law firm, covering all aspects of domestic and international business and corporate activity. The firm has over 800 professionals* and employs a diverse team of more than 900 business service specialists and paralegals.

The Highest Global Standards:
We speak over 20 languages and have advanced international law degrees and bar admissions — with experience working at top global law firms. Nishimura & Asahi has also established strong professional relationships with the most eminent law firms worldwide, enabling the firm to focus on international corporate and financial transactions, advising both Japanese and international clients at the highest international standards.

Cutting-Edge Business Issues:
Nishimura & Asahi works with the most prominent Japanese and global corporations, to find novel solutions for its industries’ most innovative changes and disruptive challenges.

Commitment To Excellence:
Through the enhancement of professional and organisational synergies — a result of the firm’s expansion — an unprecedented level of client service is made possible in highly specialised and complex areas of commercial law. Nishimura & Asahi understands its clients’ growing needs and its fully integrated team of lawyers and professional staff are proud to share the same fundamental philosophy: An uncompromising commitment to excellence.

International Presence:
With the continued expansion of international presence and clientele, the firm has five domestic and 15 overseas offices; Tokyo, Osaka, Nagoya, Fukuoka, Sapporo, Bangkok, Beijing, Shanghai, Dubai, Frankfurt, Düsseldorf, Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City, Jakarta*, Kuala Lumpur*, Manila*, New York, Singapore, Taipei, Yangon. Through the firm’s domestic and global networks, Nishimura & Asahi is ideally placed to provide clients with a borderless one-stop service, from Japan to the world.

*Associate office

Firm overview

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Firm overview

Miura & Partners was established in 2019 by Ryota Miura, former partner at Mori Hamada & Matsumoto. Miura & Partners had 30 lawyers from day one. Now the firm now has more than 100 lawyers and continues to increase. In addition to the offices located in Japan, they have opened offices in San Fransisco, Jakarta, Ho Chi Minh City, and London in the last two years. The rapidly increasing number of lawyers and offices has caught the eye of various media both in and out of Japan which will also help allow them to continue to provide their signature “Full Coverage & Top Quality” services in a wider range of regions and sectors.

Firm overview

Masuda & Partners Law Office was established in February 2008, led by founding attorney Eiji Masuda. Since that start, our firm has been involved in numerous domestic and international matters, mainly in the areas of corporate legal affairs, business-to-business disputes, and intellectual property issues.

In the meantime, the global situation and the environment surrounding Japan has changed dramatically, and in recent years, the legal world has been caught up in a whirlwind of changes, such as the digital transformation, changes that could shake even the raison d'etre and value of lawyers. However, our vision (goals and mission) was, is, and will remain unchanged. It is to continue to meet the true needs of our clients and to establish the true rule of law by continuing to challenge what no one else is challenging and creating new value in the field of law.

To this end, our attorneys and staff are constantly learning, always looking to the present from the future, and aiming to be at the forefront of the times. As a group of lawyers, we will provide not only high-quality legal advice, but also legal services that only we can offer by integrating our knowledge, wisdom, and experience outside of the legal field.

It is precisely because we live in an era of deepening turmoil that we are needed. We will continue to devote ourselves to being and evolving as such a law firm.