Atsumi & Sakai Information

Atsumi & Sakai is a multi-award-winning independent full-service Tokyo law firm, and the first major independent Tokyo law firm with foreign lawyers as full partners*. In addition to lawyers admitted in Japan, our Firm includes foreign lawyers registered in Japan to advise on the laws of the US States of New York and California, the People's Republic of China, the Republic of Korea, India, the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, England and Wales***, and the State of Queensland, Australia. Operating as an integrated international team, Atsumi & Sakai advises a wide range of international and domestic companies and financial institutions on all aspects of finance and business law utilizing our Japanese expertise and the international know-how of our foreign partners. Atsumi & Sakai has established an office in London operating as Atsumi & Sakai Europe Limited, an office in Brussels operating as Atsumi & Sakai Brussels EU and an affiliate office in New York operating as Atsumi & Sakai New York LLP. We also have a partnership with A&S Fukuoka LPC in Japan and an affiliate office in Frankfurt operating as Atsumi & Sakai Europa GmbH - Rechtsanwälte und Steuerberater, a corporation registered in Germany providing legal and tax advisory services. * Atsumi & Sakai (渥美坂井法律事務所・外国法共同事業) is a partnership consisting of Atsumi & Sakai Legal Professional Corporation (渥美坂井法律事務所弁護士法人**), a Japanese professional corporation, a foreign law joint venture under the Act on Special Measures Concerning the Handling of Legal Services by Foreign Lawyers with certain Registered Foreign Lawyers of our firm, a Japanese Civil Code partnership among Japanese lawyers, and a foreign law joint venture with Janssen Foreign Law Office. ** Bar Association: Daini Tokyo Bar Association (第二東京弁護士会所属) ***Atsumi & Sakai is not regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority for England and Wales.