Japanese Law Firms Chase Big Deals With New Europe, UK Offices

Jan. 28, 2025, 7:00 AM UTC

Japan’s top law firms are planting their flags on EU and UK turf to aid a boom in deals and investment by clients in the region.

Nishimura Asahi will open offices in Brussels and London early this year and Nagashima Ohno & Tsunematsu will open an office in London in the first half of 2025. Other firms that opened offices in the de facto EU capital last year include Anderson Mori & Tomotsune, TMI Associates, Atsumi Sakai.

The Japanese outposts don’t plan to compete with established Western operations in London or Europe but rather intend to cooperate with them in ...

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