19 May 2026
LPA Tokyo appoints Yoshiki Tsurumaki as Partner to lead Japanese law practice
"LPA Tokyo appoints Yoshiki Tsurumaki as Partner in its Corporate and M&A practice to lead the Japanese law practice, focusing on M&A, finance, capital markets and related corporate matters."
Yoshiki brings more than 23 years of experience in Japanese and international law. He specialises in corporate and business law, with a practice covering M&A (domestic and cross-border), finance, capital markets, corporate venture capital investment, ESG investment, data centre, real estate, general corporate matters and dispute resolution. He joins LPA Tokyo at partner level from King & Wood, where he was a partner and played a leading role in the Japanese law practice of the Tokyo office.
Earlier in his career, Yoshiki began as a lawyer at Atsumi & Sakai after significant in-house experience at NTT Data Corporation and a secondment to Mitsubishi Securities (now Mitsubishi UFJ Morgan Stanley Securities). He also practised in New York at Dewey & LeBoeuf following completion of an LL.M. at Vanderbilt University Law School and is a graduate of Waseda University. Within LPA Tokyo he will lead the Japanese law practice and contribute to strengthening synergies with LPA Law’s offices across Europe and Asia.