Nagashima Ohno & Tsunematsu, as the foremost provider of international commercial legal services, has been providing legal support to Japanese companies that are expanding their operations overseas, by proactively maximizing the use of our accumulated knowledge and experience that has been obtained through providing legal services in cross-border transactions over the years. In particular, recently, we have been strengthening its capacity and organization to efficiently provide legal support to Japanese companies that are expanding their operations overseas, in order to meet the rapid needs of global expansion.

By establishing co-operative alliances with Zhong Lun Law Firm, one of the major law firms in China, and Allens Arthur Robinson, also one of the major law firms in Australia, respectively, we now have 15 business bases in the growing markets of Asia and the Oceania region. As of December 2011, lawyers from Nagashima Ohno & Tsunematsu are seconded to and have been providing services in China (Beijing and Shanghai), Thailand (Bangkok), Vietnam (Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh) and Indonesia (Jakarta). Even outside the regions in which the offices of the firms with co-operative alliance are located, we have been establishing close relationships with reliable local firms, such as those in India. Benefitting from those bases overseas and our New York office (Nagashima Ohno & Tsunematsu NY LLP), as Nagashima Ohno & Tsunematsu is the only firm among the Japanese law firms that has an office in New York, we will continue to meet wide-ranging clients’ needs, and provide seamless legal services to clients for any countries and areas.