| K&L Gates has expanded its Tokyo office with the addition of 10 lawyers from Clifford Chance, bolstering the firm’s Asia presence to more than 100 legal professionals across six offices. Partners Keiji Isaji, Atsushi Yamashita, and Naoki Watanabe are joined in the move to K&L Gates by counsels Noriko Annen, Tsuguhito Omagari, Noriaki Tanimoto, and Junko Okawa, as well as three associates. The moves follow the recent restructuring of Clifford Chance’s Tokyo office. “With the addition of these distinguished practitioners, we take a major step toward a full offering of services in our Tokyo office,” said K&L Gates chairman and global managing partner Peter J. Kalis. Isaji and Yamashita both specialise in civil and commercial disputes work, with Isaji also advising on securities and banking and Yamashita focusing on foreign antitrust and Foreign Corrupt Practices Act issues as well as cross-border and domestic corporate transactions. A corporate partner, Watanabe advises on cross-border mergers and acquisitions, takeover bids, joint ventures, distributorships, and license agreements, as well as employment, compliance, and data protection matters. He also counsels companies in the healthcare sector and serves on the internal review boards of several Japanese pharmaceutical and healthcare companies. K&L Gates established its Tokyo office – its sixth in Asia – in January last year, having first entered the Asian market in 1996. |
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