No. of offices 1 Headquarters Tokyo Number of offices 1 | Date founded 1994 Founded 1994 | |
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No. of lawyers 88, including 8 registered foreign lawyers (Nov. 2013) Major practice areas Finance, corporate, funds, litigation/insolvency, international practice Founders Hiroo Atsumi, Yutaka Sakai | ||
Atsumi & Sakai (渥美坂井法律事務所, Atsumi Sakai Hōritsu Jimusho) is a law firm in Tokyo, Japan. The firm has five formal practice groups: finance, corporate, funds, litigation/insolvency, and international practice.
The Legal 500 ranks Atsumi & Sakai as a top-tier firm in structured finance and securitization, and as a second-tier firm in antitrust/competition, banking/finance, capital markets, construction/projects/energy, corporate/M&A, dispute resolution, labor/employment, real estate and shipping. IFLR ranks the firm as first-tier in structured finance and securitization and as second-tier in banking and project finance. Chambers & Partners ranks the firm's founding partner Hiroo Atsumi as a "Band 1" practitioner in banking, finance and capital markets.
Diet member and former Minister of State for Financial Services Yuji Yamamoto is an advisor to the firm.
The firm was founded in 1994 as Atsumi & Usui by a group of lawyers led by Hiroo Atsumi who left the firm of Blakemore & Mitsuki. The firm was known as Atsumi & Partners from 2003. It was the first Japanese law firm to register as a joint venture between Japanese and foreign lawyers in 2005. The firm adopted its current name in 2010 after absorbing a practice group from TMI Associates. In 2013, the firm formed a joint venture with the German law practice of Markus Janssen.