{"id":25564,"date":"2026-05-20T03:01:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T03:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/25564\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T03:01:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T03:01:08","slug":"lpa-tokyo-boosts-corporate-ma-with-new-partner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/25564\/","title":{"rendered":"LPA Tokyo boosts corporate, M&#038;A with new partner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        <a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.law.asia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/LPA-Tokyo-boosts-corporate-MA-with-new-partner-1.jpg\" data-caption=\"Yoshiki Tsurumaki\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"464\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=\" http:=\"\" alt=\"LPA Tokyo Yoshiki Tsurumaki hire\" title=\"LPA Tokyo boosts corporate M&amp;A with new partner\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/LPA-Tokyo-boosts-corporate-MA-with-new-partner-1-696x464.jpg\"\/><\/a>Yoshiki Tsurumaki<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">LPA Tokyo has bolstered its corporate and M&amp;A practice with the addition of partner Yoshiki Tsurumaki.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tsurumaki joins from King &amp; Wood, where he served as a partner for nearly a decade. He previously spent more than nine years as a partner at Japanese firm Atsumi &amp; Sakai.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tsurumaki specialises in domestic and cross-border M&amp;A finance, capital markets, corporate venture capital investment, ESG investment, data centres, real estate, general corporate, and dispute resolution.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cYoshiki\u2019s appointment reflects LPA Tokyo\u2019s continued commitment to strengthening its corporate and M&amp;A capabilities, and supporting the development of its Japan practice in line with evolving client needs,\u201d Lionel Vincent, managing partner of LPA Tokyo, told Asia Business Law Journal.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Vincent said that Tsurumaki\u2019s appointment would further enhance the firm\u2019s ability to meet increasing client demand across complex areas.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cHis arrival also forms part of LPA Tokyo\u2019s broader strategic development and its continued adaptation to the growing demand in the Japanese market for sophisticated M&amp;A, investment and projects-related legal expertise,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cIt further enhances the team\u2019s ability to support both domestic and international clients on complex cross-border matters, in close co-ordination with LPA Law\u2019s offices across Europe and Asia.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Yoshiki Tsurumaki LPA Tokyo has bolstered its corporate and M&amp;A practice with the addition of partner Yoshiki Tsurumaki.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":25565,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[20396,20397,20398,20399,19349,20400,8,20401,20402,20403,20404,10830,52,20405],"class_list":["post-25564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tokyo","tag-atsumi-sakai","tag-capital-markets","tag-corporate-law","tag-cross-border-ma","tag-data-centres","tag-esg-investment","tag-japan","tag-japan-legal-market","tag-king-wood","tag-lionel-vincent","tag-lpa-tokyo","tag-ma","tag-tokyo","tag-yoshiki-tsurumaki"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25564\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}