Mayer Brown Announces Three-Lawyer Team In Tokyo
07 May 2018
Mayer Brown has announce that a three-lawyer team has joined the firm’s new office in Tokyo, including Shri Maski and Gordon Palmquist, who join as partners in the firm’s banking and finance practice and corporate and securities practice, respectively, and Tomo Adachi, who joins as a senior associate in the firm’s banking and finance practice. Maski and Adachi were previously at Ashurst, while Palmquist rejoins the firm from Shearman and Sterling.
“I am pleased to welcome this impressive group of lawyers to our new office in Japan, which recently began operation,” said Rupert Burrows, the leader of Mayer Brown’s Tokyo office. “My new colleagues will play a pivotal role in helping to fortify Mayer Brown’s relationships with its Japanese clients by drawing on the firm’s strength in project and other finance, energy and mining, M&A transactions, private investment funds matters, disputes and investigations, and other areas such as intellectual property and regulatory matters.”
Until August 1, Mayer Brown will occupy temporary quarters in Otemachi, Chiyoda-ku, before moving to offices at the Marunouchi Kitaguchi building near Tokyo Station.
