News/Events

Tier 1 for “Structured Finance / Securitisation” in the 2010/2011 edition of The Asia Pacific Legal 500 / Partners Hiroo Atsumi and Hiroaki Takahashi named as “Leading Individuals” in the fields.

With merger into our firm of Mr. Yutaka Sakai and seven other attorneys, the name of our firm was changed from Atsumi & Partners to “Atsumi & Sakai” as of November 1.

Tier 1 for Capital Markets — structured finance and securitization in IFLR1000 2011 / Hiroo Atsumi named as Leading Lawyers for “Capital markets — structured finance and securitization” and “Banking”

Tier 1 for Banking & Finance in Asialaw Profiles 2011

[Seminar] “Labor Umpire System” : Yoshiko Nakayama (Of Counsel)

[Seminar] “Law and Practice of Syndicated Lending: Contract Basics and Recent Developments”: Yuri Suzuki (Partner)

Based on a survey of some 15,000 in-house counsel across Asia and the Middle East, ASIAN-COUNSEL magazine has named Atsumi & Partners as "Firm of the Year 2010" in Japan in the area of Banking & Finance.

[Seminar] “Legal Status of the Drug Package Insert in Medical Suits”: Taro Fujita

In a case where Toyoki Emoto and Shintaro Hamasu acted as representatives to file a petition for civil rehabilitation proceedings, the rehabilitation plan, passed at the meeting of creditors on July 15, 2010.

A private settlement was reached on August 9, 2010 with the consent of all concerned financial institutions, with involvement of Toyoki Emoto and the involvement of the Fukushima Prefecture Small and Medium Enterprise Rehabilitation Support Council.