Atsumi law firm news

Atsumi & Sakai has been rocked by the departure of partner Horoaki Takahashi and seven-strong team to Canadian firm Davis to create a joint venture to be named Davis & Takahashi.

Japanese firm Atsumi & Partners has added another name to shingle after recruiting an eight-lawyer (including seven-partners) team from local rivals TMI Associates. The partner whose name will now appear alongside the firm’s founding partner, Hiroo Atsumi, is Yutaka Sakai.

Baker & McKenzie has appointed Haruhiko Ogasawara as a counsel in its Tokyo banking & finance practice group.

Is the cooperative consensus that has typified a liberalised Japanese legal market finally giving way to greater competition? ALB investigates

The votes are in, the numbers crunched, the data weighted, collated and tallied. And the results have given some interesting findings.

由《亚洲法律杂志》策划并组织的２００９年度亚太地区以及中东地区法律市场最佳雇主的调查活动于近日圆满结束。在中国区，十家国内和国际著名律师事务所脱颖而出，被业内人士评选为本年度“最佳雇主”。

Reports of an impending regulatory crackdown on unregistered foreign lawyers are incorrect, according to the Japan Federation of Bar Associations (JFBA).

Ushinawareta junen (the lost decade) is officially over and Japanese companies have emerged cashed up and ready to plunder ailing markets across the globe. But, as ALB reports, while Japan's band of bengoshi and gaggle of gaiben are looking forward to an upswing in work, micro matters loom large on the horizon

Atsumi & Partners has promoted Atsushi Iritani and Takuji Nozaka to the position of partner.

Fast-growing Japanese law firm Atsumi & Partners has recruited its first German qualified lawyer, Andreas Kaiser, expanding its capabilities to include German law in addition to its former offering of Japanese, American and English law.

A special report covering the following areas: Winds of change, Foreign firms face rocky road in Tokyo, The sun rises again

Atsumi & Partners continued to up its headcount in February, including the addition of yet another foreign attorney as it seeks international practice growth.

Japanese finance firm Atsumi & Partners' crusade to exploit the lifting of restrictions on foreign lawyers forging local partnerships with bengoshi continued this month with the hiring of its first UK partner

Japanese finance firm Atsumi & Partners' one-firm crusade to exploit regulations lifting restrictions on foreign lawyers forging local partnerships with bengoshi has continued this month with the hiring of its first UK partner.

The rise to prominence of real estate as an asset class in Asia has pushed the development of a budding REIT market that developers and investors are sure will blossom. ALB reports

In a Japanese legal market characterised by a revolutionised M&A landscape, deep-seated regulatory reform and burgeoning demand, ALB talks to a selection of lawyers at the vanguard of change

In 2005 we were transfixed by the demise of Coudert, and for 2006 ALB predicts that all eyes will be on the increasing number of intra-Asian alliances. Watch this space

Some eight months after new regulations were introduced permitting enhanced cooperation between western and Japanese qualified lawyers, and the Japanese legal market is looking more fluid than ever

Whether it is for landing a prominent role on a key transaction, undergoing impressive growth, or simply upping sticks to a new location, the following firms across Asia are the ones that are on the march

The ability to generate a headline is not always a good thing. But the following 100 lawyers from around the Asia-Pacific region have managed to do just that over the last 12 months