Firm Description

Nagashima Ohno & Tsunematsu is widely known as a leading law firm in Japan, and a foremost provider of international and commercial legal services. The firm represents domestic and foreign companies and organizations involved in every major industry sector and in every legal service area in Japan. The firm has structured and negotiated many of Japan’s largest and most significant corporate and finance transactions, and has extensive litigation strength spanning key commercial areas, including intellectual property and taxation. The firm comprises around 360 lawyers (including 10 foreign-licensed lawyers) capable of providing its clients with practical solutions to meet their business needs.

With one of the largest legal teams in the country, the firm brings a wealth of practical knowledge focused on a singular purpose of providing the highest quality of legal expertise to develop the optimum solution for any business problem or goal that its clients may have. The firm, with its knowledge and experience across a full range of practice areas, is always prepared to meet the legal needs of its clients in any industry.

The firm actively strives to meet the needs of its clients operating outside Japan or seeking to expand their operations overseas. The firm strengthened its overseas practice in 2010 by opening an office in New York, entering into a cooperative alliance with Allens Arthur Robinson that focuses on South East Asia, and entering into a cooperative alliance with Zhong Lun Law Firm in China.