People

Yuko Tamai

Partner

Tokyo Office

Yuko Tamai

Partner

Tokyo Office

Fax

+81-3-6889-8153

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Yuko Tamai is a partner at Nagashima Ohno & Tsunematsu. She represents foreign and domestic clients on various types of corporate transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and licensing transactions. She has extensive experience in handling large-scale alliance deals, public acquisitions and carve-out transactions. She also provides strategic advice on shareholder activism and unsolicited acquisition proposals as well as corporate governance, internal control issues and crisis management.
She served as a member of the Study Group for Japanese Companies’ Cross-border M&A at the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) from 2017 to 2018, and a member of the Fair M&A Study Group at METI from 2018 to 2019. She has been a member of the Certified Public Accountants and Auditing Oversight Board (CPAAOB) since 2019 and an outside corporate auditor of MITSUI & CO., LTD. since 2022.

Practice Areas

Languages

Japanese, English

Qualifications

1994, Japan (Dai-Ichi Tokyo Bar Association)

Practice Areas

Languages

Japanese, English

Qualifications

1994, Japan (Dai-Ichi Tokyo Bar Association)

Education/Professional Experience

1989: The University of Tokyo (LL.B.)
1994 -: Nagashima & Ohno (currently Nagashima Ohno & Tsunematsu)
2000: Harvard Law School (LL.M.)
2000 - 2001: Covington & Burling LLP, Washington, D.C.
2003 - present: Partner, Nagashima Ohno & Tsunematsu

Yuko Tamai

Yuko Tamai

Education/Professional Experience

Seminars

Governance and Overseas M&A Seminar “Latest Trends in Corporate Governance and Overseas M&A – the Revised CG Code, Overseas M&A Study Group, Subsidiary Management”

M&A Seminar “Aggressive and Conservative M&As”

Publications

“Merger Handbook [4th Edition]”

“Forefront of M&A Risk Management”

“Advanced Corporate Law”

“Merger Handbook [3rd Edition]”

Awards

NO&T recognized by Chambers Global 2023

NO&T receives high evaluation in The Legal 500 Asia Pacific 2023

NO&T receives high evaluation in Nikkei’s “Reliable Law Firm Rankings” and “Best Performing Lawyers Rankings 2022”

Topics

Yuko Tamai appointed as a commissioner of the Certified Public Accountants and Auditing Oversight Board

Yuko Tamai appointed as a member of Fair M&A Study Group

Yuko Tamai appointed as a member of Study Group for Japanese Companies’ M&A Overseas