Davis Polk has been active in Japan since we advised J.P. Morgan on sovereign financings in the wake of the Tokyo earthquake in 1923. Today, we are among the leading U.S. legal advisers on complex transactions involving Japanese companies and the Japanese marketplace. Our Tokyo office, which opened in 1987, is staffed by two partners and eight associates. We also draw support from our colleagues in our Hong Kong, Beijing, New York, London and Menlo Park offices as needed to ensure successful execution of transactions.
The principal focus in our Tokyo office is on capital markets transactions and mergers and acquisitions/joint ventures involving Japanese and foreign enterprises, although we also work on credit transactions, internal and regulatory investigations, and a broad range of other corporate and advisory projects. We play a central role in the flow of major cross-border transactions involving many sectors of the Japanese economy, focusing on the technology and financial institutions sectors. For example, we have been involved in several of the most significant recent corporate transactions in Japan and Korea over the last 5 years.
Together with our Hong Kong and Beijing office lawyers, we are also actively engaged in advising private equity investors in structuring investment and exit transactions in Japan, Korea, China, Taiwan, India and Southeast Asia.
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