TMI Associates law firm news

The Tokyo office of Simmons & Simmons has laterally hired Hogan Lovells projects lawyer Simon Barrett to join the firm as a partner with immediate effect.

The rivalry heats up amongst Tokyo-based international firms at the night of nights for Japan’s legal fraternity – the ALB Japan Law Awards 2011.

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.

Nishimura & Asahi, the largest of the Japanese 'big four' firms, has opened its Beijing representative office upon receiving the licence from the Ministry of Justice in April.

日本西村朝日律师事务所获得司法部批准，已在北京开设代表处，并于6月开始正式执业。

Telecommunications and broadcasting sectors in Japan are experiencing a surge in activity and the latest move comes from Sumitomo Corporation.

Whether they are cash-strapped or expanding, Asia’s aviation industry has proven to be a big source of work for the region’s law firms recently.

The global financial crisis has not diminished law firms’ passion for the country’s most cosmopolitan and fast-paced city. Rather, it provides a timely opportunity for ambitious firms in this up-and-coming financial centre to prepare for a new wave of competition. ALB China investigates

Simmons & Simmons’s corporate partner and Tokyo office head Rika Beppu has to serve her full notice period – delaying her move to its rival Lovells - so that the firm can retain its joint venture with Japanese law firm TMI Associates.

It’s a mass migration from Simmons & Simmons to Lovells. Rika Beppu, previously managing partner of Simmons & Simmons’ Tokyo office, has joined Lovells

After news leaked out early last year that Asahi Koma Law Offices was in discussions with Nishimura & Partners about a potential merger, the two firms were forced to publicly confirm the merger plans, leaving the entire process wide open to the prolonged scrutiny of the firms' competitors and clients, as well as the media.

The managing partner of Paul Weiss in Tokyo has left the firm for a role as comanaging partner of Morgan Lewis-TMI, the JV set up between US firm Morgan Lewis & Bockius and Japanese firm TMI Associates.

Lisa Yano, managing partner of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison in Tokyo has left the firm for a role as co-managing partner of Morgan Lewis-TMI, the joint venture set up between US firm Morgan Lewis & Bockius and local firm TMI Associates.

Indonesian company IndoCoal Exports has followed up its groundbreaking cross-border securitisation last year - short-listed for ALB's SE Asia Deals of the Year Awards 2006 - with the region's largest ever securitisation.

TMI Associates has entered into a new joint venture - with US firm Morgan Lewis & Bockius

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

Japanese firm TMI Associates has announced its second international joint venture (and third overall); this time with US firm Morgan Lewis & Bockius.

Thailand's largest refinery operator and petroleum product supplier, Thai Oil Public Company Limited, has closed the country's largest ever IPO and the largest in Southeast Asia for three years.

A three-year-old merger between White & Case Thailand and a local firm has ended in frustration and accusations.