The Asia Legal Awards 2021

Leading Japanese law firm Nishimura & Asahi has been shortlisted for the following awards at The Asia Legal Awards 2021. The winners will be announced at a virtual awards ceremony on May 5, 2021.

Asian Law Firm of the Year
M&A Firm of the Year (Large deal $500M or above)
TMT Firm of the Year
Asian Technology and Innovation Initiative of the Year

M&A Deal of the Year: North Asia
　- Itochu’s $5.6B Acquisition of FamilyMart
　  Asa Shinkawa, Hideo Horikoshi, Takuya Matsuo
   - NTT Docomo’s $40B Take-Private
     Ryutaro Nakayama, Yasunori Ishizaki
Private Equity Deal of the Year
　- KKR and Rakuten’s $1.6B Acquisition of Seiyu Stakes
  　Asa Shinkawa, Yasutaka Nishikori, Takahiko Date, Masaki Noda, Atsushi Mizushima, Toshiyuki Nonaka, Kazumaro Kobayashi,
     Yotaro Takayama, Stephen D. Bohrer, James Emerson

Energy and Infrastructure Lawyer of the Year - Tomohiro Sato
Data Privacy Lawyer of the Year - Noriya Ishikawa

The Asia Legal Awards are hosted by The Asian Lawyer, in association with The American Lawyer, China Law & Practice, Legal Week and Law.com, as “Asia’s most renowned ceremony for the legal elite where the region's top lawyers, law firms, and in- house teams gather to celebrate their most stellar achievements of the year”.