Squire Sanders Acquires Mamiya Law Offices
15 August 2014
A month after global firm Squire Sanders merged with Washington, DC-based Patton Boggs to form Squire Patton Boggs, the firm announced that it had acquired Tokyo-based corporate and transactional practice Mamiya Law Offices, which it says will bolster its intellectual property and financial services practices which are already in place in Tokyo.
“We have developed a strong relationship with [firm founder Jun Mamiya], having first worked together almost 20 years ago. Not only do we share a number of major public institutional clients, but there are synergies with our financial services and intellectual property practices in Tokyo, which will lead to new and exciting opportunities in Japan as well as elsewhere around the world,” said Ken Kurosu, Squire Patton Boggs’ Asia regional coordinator and office managing partner in Tokyo.
The Squire Sanders-Patton Boggs merger resulted in a law firm of approximately 1,600 lawyers spanning 45 offices in 21 countries around the world, including Beijing, Hong Kong, Perth, Seoul, Shanghai, Singapore, Sydney and Tokyo, as well as a strategic alliance with Melli Darsa & Co in Jakarta.
