Acquisition Finance 2025

JAPAN Law and Practice Contributed by: Jiro Mikami, Ryo Okubo, Hiromi Hattori and Tomohiro Koyasu, Nagashima Ohno & Tsunematsu

Nagashima Ohno & Tsunematsu is an inte - grated full-service law firm in Japan and is one of the foremost providers of international and commercial legal services based in Tokyo. The firm’s overseas network includes offices in New York, Singapore, Bangkok, Ho Chi Minh City, Hanoi, Jakarta and Shanghai, as well as col- laborative relationships with prominent local law firms worldwide. It represents leading domestic and international clients, having successfully

structured and negotiated many of the largest and most significant acquisition finance trans- actions related to Japan, among many other finance and banking transactions. The firm has more than 630 lawyers, including more than 50 experienced non-Japan qualified lawyers from various jurisdictions, who work together in cus- tomised teams to provide clients with the ex- pertise and experience specifically required for each matter.

Authors

Jiro Mikami is a partner at Nagashima Ohno & Tsunematsu and has extensive experience in both cross-border and domestic acquisition finance. His main areas of practice are acquisition

Hiromi Hattori is a partner at Nagashima Ohno & Tsunematsu. Her main practice areas are private equity, M&A, acquisition finance and other commercial transactions. She has more than

finance, project finance, real estate finance and other types of structured finance, infrastructure and M&A.

15 years of experience in both finance and corporate matters. She worked for a global trading company between 2017 and 2018 as a seconded in-house counsel, where she was involved in a variety of cross-border commercial transactions in the oil and gas industry. She is widely published in the areas of acquisition finance, sustainable finance and foreign direct investment.

Ryo Okubo is a co-head and partner at Nagashima Ohno & Tsunematsu’s New York Office. His main practice areas are

private equity, M&A, acquisition finance, TMT and securities law regulations. He has approximately 25 years of experience in both finance and corporate matters and many types of cross-border transactions. He is widely published in the areas of acquisition finance, private equity and TMT.

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