Lawyers in Ropes & Gray’s Tokyo office counsel clients on a wide range of complex cross-border legal matters. Our Japan team focuses on the following practice areas: corporate/M&A/private equity, finance, and intellectual property litigation. In each of these fields, our team our combines our legal knowledge with a keen understanding of our clients’ business exigencies and the Japanese market, as well as evolving practices in the global markets. Our clients are industry leaders in their fields and include the most active private equity firms in the market, their portfolio companies, multinational corporations and a diverse group of Japanese companies.

Since opening in 2007, our fully bilingual Tokyo-based team has earned impressive recognition for the quality and creativity of its work delivered to clients. Multiple lawyers from Ropes & Gray’s Tokyo office have been recognized as leaders in corporate/M&A, private equity, banking and leveraged finance in Chambers Asia Pacific, Chambers Global, The Legal 500 Asia-Pacific, IFLR1000, The Financial Times, Mergermarket, The American Lawyer, Law360 and Asian Legal Business