Photo: shutterstock.comBig Four's Deloitte Rebuilds Tokyo Law Firm With Jones Day Partner Duo
Takashi Tanazawa and Hirokazu Ina were both longtime lawyers at Jones Day
July 02, 2019 at 01:43 PM
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The Tokyo law firm affiliated with Big Four accounting firm Deloitte has hired two former Jones Day partners, helping it to recover from a four-lawyer departure to Withers last year.
Takashi Tanazawa and Hirokazu Ina join DT Legal Japan as partners after a combined 27 years with the U.S. firm.
Tanazawa, who also leads DT Legal's dispute resolution practice, specialises in disputes related to product liability, general tort, contract, labour, unfair competition and consumer matters in the information technology, construction, engineering, life science, automobile and consumer products industries.
He leaves Jones Day after almost 14 years with the firm, where he also led its Tokyo office's disputes practice. Tanazawa joined the U.S. firm in 2005 and made partner in 2014.
Ina focuses on financial transactions, securitisations and regulatory issues in the real estate and energy sectors. In 2017, he represented the Japan Bank for International Cooperation, Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ Ltd., Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp. and Mizuho Bank Ltd. as lenders of a $500 million syndicated credit facility to Chilean mining company Minera Escondida Ltda.
Ina leaves Jones Day after 13 years with the firm. He joined in 2006 as an associate and made partner in 2008; in 2017, he retired from the partnership and became of counsel.
Earlier this year, DT Legal also recruited a corporate lawyer from local firm T. Hasegawa & Co. and three newly qualified lawyers. The six additions this year make up for the four-lawyer team departure in September of last year to Withers, led by investment funds partners Koji Yamamoto and Yoshiyuki Omori.
DT Legal, which joined Deloitte's global legal network in 2015, has 21 lawyers and is led by managing partner Yasunobu Tsujihata, who joined in 2017 from EY Law Co., where he was a partner.
In addition to Tsujihata, DT Legal poached at least six other lawyers in recent years from Big Four rival EY's affiliated law firm in Tokyo, including former executive director Yuki Sakamoto in 2018. Separately, Yutaka Kitamura, who founded EY Law Co. in 2013, also jumped to Deloitte's tax arm as a director in 2017.
The only other Big Four auditor that has an affiliated law firm in Tokyo is PricewaterhouseCoopers, which launched PwC Japan Legal in 2014. Sydney-based Tony O'Malley, who was appointed global leader of PwC's global legal services network last month, told Law.com's The Asian Lawyer that his top priorities are expanding in Japan, as well as in Hong Kong and Singapore.
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