Ashurst has hired a corporate partner in Tokyo.

Tracy Whiriskey joined from Clifford Chance, where she was counsel based in the Japanese capital, advising Japanese trading, media and utilities companies on outbound mergers and acquisitions transactions. In 2014, she represented Japan’s Nippon Steel & Sumikin Engineering Co. Ltd. on a $154 million acquisition of German thermal waste treatment company Fisia Babcock Environment GmbH.