People

Axel Kuhlmann

Foreign Law Partner (*)

Tokyo Office

Axel Kuhlmann

Foreign Law Partner (*)

Tokyo Office

Tel

+81-3-6889-7240

Fax

+81-3-6889-8240

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Axel Kuhlmann is a corporate and M&A lawyer qualified in Germany and a Foreign Law Partner* of Nagashima Ohno & Tsunematsu. He has wide-ranging experience in the German and European market advising Japanese and global companies on all kinds of German law issues and on their business activities in Germany and other European countries. He also regularly advises German clients on their business activities in Japan, including corporate housekeeping and labor law matters of their Japanese subsidiaries.
Axel graduated from the University of Passau, Germany, and holds a doctor’s degree (Dr. iur.) from the same university. Before joining Nagashima Ohno & Tsunematsu, Axel worked for one of Germany’s leading business law firms as associated partner in the field of corporate and M&A and a member of the firm’s Japan advisory group.
Awards:
The Best Lawyers in Japan 2022 – Corporate and Mergers and Acquisitions Law

Practice Areas

Languages

Japanese, English, French, German

Qualifications

2011, Hamburg, Germany
2017, Gaikokuho Jimu Bengoshi (Registered Foreign Lawyer, Japan) (Jurisdiction of Primary Qualification: Germany)

*Please note that we are not engaged in a Gaikokuho Kyodo Jigyo (foreign law enterprise).

Practice Areas

Languages

Japanese, English, French, German

Qualifications

2011, Hamburg, Germany
2017, Gaikokuho Jimu Bengoshi (Registered Foreign Lawyer, Japan) (Jurisdiction of Primary Qualification: Germany)

*Please note that we are not engaged in a Gaikokuho Kyodo Jigyo (foreign law enterprise).

Education/Professional Experience

2009: University of Passau (Doctor iuris)
2009 - 2011: Higher Regional Court of Hamburg (legal training)
2011 - 2017: Gleiss Lutz Hootz Hirsch, Hamburg
2017 -: Nagashima Ohno & Tsunematsu, Tokyo
2020 - present: Foreign Law Partner, Nagashima Ohno & Tsunematsu

Axel Kuhlmann

Axel Kuhlmann

Education/Professional Experience

Seminars

Cross-border carve-out transactions – challenges and how to tackle them from transaction structure to post-merger integration

COVID-19 – related M&A opportunities in Germany

Corporate/M&A Seminar “Tightening of Foreign Investment Regulations in Japan, the U.S. and Europe (Europe): Recent Legislative Developments in the EU, and Recent Amendments to Foreign Direct Investment Regulations in Germany”

Warranty & Indemnity Insurance in M&A Transactions – How it works and current trends in Europe and Japan

Publications

Japan’s Economic Sanctions against Russia

Practice Area Focus: M&A – What does the future hold for Japan’s M&A market?

Outline of the amendment of the German Foreign Investment Regulation and its impact on M&A practice

Das Verbot der reformatio in peius im Zivilprozessrecht

Awards

High evaluation received in the 2023 Edition of “The Best Lawyers in Japan” and “The Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch in Japan”

High evaluation received in the 2022 Edition of “The Best Lawyers in Japan”

Topics

NO&T sponsored the Legal 500 event “GC Summit Japan 2022”

Announcing Partners, Foreign Law Partner, Counsel and Foreign Law Counsel of NO&T

Axel Kuhlmann joins Nagashima Ohno & Tsunematsu