Nishimura & Asahi Receives Outstanding Results in Legal 500 Asia Pacific 2025 | Awards & Rankings | News | Nishimura & Asahi

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Nishimura & Asahi is delighted to announce that we have been recognized and highly ranked in The Legal 500 Asia Pacific 2025 guide across numerous practice areas in Japan. In addition to these accolades, we were featured in rankings for key jurisdictions in Asia-Pacific regions including Myanmar, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand, Vietnam, and Indonesia for Walalangi & Partners (in association with Nishimura & Asahi).

This year’s results highlight our firm’s ongoing commitment to consistent and excellent service across all practice areas for our clients. In addition, many of our lawyers were individually recognized in the guide for their outstanding work.

Regional International Arbitration
Leading Firm: Tier 3

Antitrust and Competition
Leading Firm: Tier 1
Hall of Fame: Kozo Kawai
Next Generation Partner: Junko Wakabayashi

Leading Firm: Tier 1
Leading Partners: Adrian Joyce, Katsu Sengoku
Next Generation Partner: Takashi Saito, Hideo Horikoshi

Leading Firm: Tier 1
Leading Individual: Kohei Koikawa, Kentaro Sugimoto

Leading Firm: Tier 1
Leading Partners: Asa Shinkawa, Yoshinobu Fujimoto
Next Generation Partner: Yuki Oi

Leading Firm: Tier 1
Hall of Fame: Hiroyuki Tezuka
Leading Partners: Akihiro Hironaka, Lars Markert
Next Generation Partner: Yutaro Kawabata, Chié Nakahara

Leading Firm: Tier 2
Leading Partners: Naoya Ariyoshi

Leading Firm: Tier 1
Leading Partners: Hitomi Iwase, Yoshiyuki Miyashita
Next Generation Partner: Yoko Kasai, Gai Matsushita

Leading Firm: Tier 1
Leading Partners: Makoto Igarashi, Kei Ito, Kohei Ishida
Next Generation Partner: Yoshiharu Kawamata

Leading Firm: Tier 1
Leading Partners: Yuri Sugano, Jiro Abe

Leading Firm: Tier 1
Leading Partners: Yoshinobu Fujimoto, Masaru Shibahara
Leading Associates: Kohei Matano

Leading Firm: Tier 1
Leading Partners: Tomohiro Sato, Alexander Woody, Maya Ito, Sadayuki Matsudaira, Adrian Joyce
Next Generation Partner: Nathan G. Schmidt

Leading Firm: Tier 1
Leading Partners: Yoshihiko Kawakami, Hiroshi Niinomi, Norio Maeda

Leading Firm: Tier 1
Leading Partners: Kenichi Minami, Hajime Ueno
Next Generation Partner: Yonson Minami

Leading Firm: Tier 1
Leading Partners: Hiroshi Kimeda, Kei Umebayashi, Kaku Hirao
Next Generation Partner: Tomoyuki Numata

Leading Firm: Tier 2
Next Generation Partner: Kosuke Shibukawa, Adrian Joyce

Leading Firm: Tier 2
Hall of Fame: Yo Ota
Leading Partners: Akihiro Hironaka
Next Generation Partner: Tsuyoshi Ito

Leading Firm: Tier 1
Leading Partners: Takahiko Date, Kojiro Fujii

Leading Firm: Tier 2
Leading Partners: Miriam Andreta

Leading Firm: Tier 4

Leading Firm: Tier 2

Leading Firm: Tier 3

Leading Firm: Tier 2

Leading Firm: Tier 1