Atsumi & Sakai

The firm

Atsumi & Sakai is a multi-award-winning, independent full-service Tokyo law firm, and the first Japanese law firm to create a foreign law joint venture, which enables it to admit foreign partners and so offer its clients the quality of service that the modern international business community demands. Expanding from its highly regarded finance practice, the firm now acts for a wide range of international and domestic companies, banks, financial institutions and other businesses, offering a comprehensive range of legal expertise.

International practice

Atsumi & Sakai has an outward-looking approach to its international practice, and has foreign partners with extensive experience from leading international law firms, so providing its clients with the benefit of both Japanese law expertise and real international experience. In addition to lawyers admitted in Japan, our firm includes foreign lawyers registered in Japan to advise on the laws of the US States of New York and California, the People's Republic of China, the Republic of Korea, India, the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, England and Wales, and the State of Queensland, Australia, United States and Australian Federal laws, and the laws of the Federal Republic of Germany (in collaboration with Janssen Foreign Law Office).

In addition to our Tokyo head-office and Fukuoka affiliate office in Japan, we have offices in London and Brussels, and affiliated offices in New York and Frankfurt, so enabling us to provide quality services around the clock.

Innovation & diversity

The firm constantly seeks to anticipate its clients’ needs for new legal services, most recently those arising from the rapid technological developments in the financial services industry and strives to provide high-quality and cost-effective services and solutions to support companies new to the Japanese market. The firm also offers flexible alternative fee arrangements tailored to meet the specific needs and goals of each client company. Atsumi & Sakai takes a proactive approach to diversity, equity and inclusion (DE&I), and encourages its lawyers to maintain a good work/life balance, which has seen the firm recognised as Japan’s leading law firm for employee satisfaction.

Key Practice Areas
Banking and finance, Capital markets, Competition/antitrust, Construction, Corporate and M&A, Dispute resolution, Regulatory, Intellectual property, Labour and employment, Investment funds, Private equity, Restructuring and insolvency, Tax

Key Sector Expertise
Aviation and shipping, Banking and financial services, Consumer goods and services, Industrials and manufacturing, Infrastructure, Materials, Media and entertainment, Mining, Oil and gas, Pharmaceuticals and life sciences, Real estate, Technology and telecommunications

A&S Fukuoka LPC (Fukuoka Affiliate Office):
Tenjin Bldg. 10F, 2-12-1 Tenjin, Chuo-ku, Fukuoka-shi
Fukuoka 810-0001 Japan
Contact: Yasuhiro Usui (Partner)
Tel： +81-(0)92-724-7701

Atsumi & Sakai New York LLP (New York Affiliate Office):
1120 Avenue of the Americas, 4th Floor
New York, New York 10036, USA
Contact: Bonnie L. Dixon (Managing Partner)
Tel： +1-212-523-0822

Atsumi & Sakai Europe Limited (London Office):
85 Gresham Street, London EC2V 7NQ, United Kingdom
Contact: Naoki Kanehisa (Partner)
Tel: +44-(0)203-696-6540
Mobile: +44-(0)75-4899-7865

Atsumi & Sakai Brussels EU (Brussels Office):
CBR Building, Chaussée de la Hulpe 185, 1170, Brussels, Belgium
Contact: Estuko Kameoka (Managing Partner)
Tel: +32-470-85-19-07

Atsumi & Sakai Europa GmbH - Rechtsanwälte und Steuerberater (Frankfurt Affiliate Office):
OpernTurm (13th Floor)
Bockenheimer Landstraße 2–4,
60306 Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Local Contact: Frank Becker*, admitted in the Federal Republic of Germany
(Atsumi & Sakai Europa GmbH - Rechtsanwälte und Steuerberater)
Tel: +49-(0)69-7474-5050 (General)
Fax: +49-(0)69-7474-5064

Contact in Japan: Ryuichi Nozaki, admitted in Japan (Partner)