Greenberg Traurig has secured its Tokyo presence by restructuring its office as a registered foreign law firm and has boosted its numbers with the hire of corporate specialist Go Hashimoto as a shareholder and registered foreign lawyer.
Hashimoto joins the firm's corporate and securities practice from Bingham McCutchen's Tokyo office, where he spent five years advising clients on corporate restructuring and international commercial litigation transactions. He was previously a loan officer with the Japan Bank for International Cooperation.
The Tokyo office was originally involved in an alliance with Japanese law firm Hayabusa Asuka, but the firm steadily strengthened its presence by adding registered foreign lawyers, including Allison Rosenberg, who is recently qualified.
The firm has increased its Asian presence over the year, recently adding its Shanghai office in January and boosting the office's attorney count from one to 12.
"There will be an increasing number of transactions originated by or involving Japanese government and enterprises under the current economic conditions," said the firm's president, Richard A Rosenbaum.