 Shoring up its presence in Japan, Squire Patton Boggs (SPB) has finalised a combination with Mamiya Law Offices, which will see the addition of five Tokyo-based lawyers to the US firm’s already embedded financial services and intellectual property practice. The Japanese firm’s key strengths lie in M&A, restructuring, corporate governance and private equity with additional expertise in litigation and arbitration, complementing SPB’s wide-ranging expertise. With a distinct uptick in the number of outbound Japanese deals this year and last, particularly with the US, the appointments of corporate partners, Hiroki Suyama from law firm, Pillsbury in Los Angeles and Kenji Funahashi from US firm Jones Day are strategic. Steve Mahon, Global Managing Partner, commented that the “strong relationship developed with Mamiya” dates “back almost 20 years” and that the firms “shared a number of major public institutional clients” as well as other “synergies” which “would lead to opportunities in Japan as well as elsewhere in the world.” Squire Sanders acquired Patton Boggs in late May of this year and the firm now has 1500 lawyers all over the world. |
Squire Patton Boggs merges with Japanese firm
