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K&L Gates opens Tokyo office
25 February 2010
Three lawyers from Latham & Watkins’ Tokyo practice move to K&L Gates to set up a new Tokyo office and expand the firm’s airfinance practice in Asia.
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K&L Gates
Ryan Dwyer
Takahiro Kawaguchi
Robert Melson
Tokyo
K&L Gates is expanding its global practice by hiring Ryan Dwyer, Takahiro Kawaguchi and Robert Melson to head its Tokyo operations. All three join from Latham & Watkins’s Tokyo office, where they worked on airfinance transactions.
Dwyer specializes in cross-border mergers and acquisitions and private equity transactions, as well as international joint ventures and employment matters.
Kawaguchi, who focuses on operating leasing, is a Japanese lawyer and also licenced in New York law. He worked in London for a year with Linklaters.
Melson has more than 10 years’ experience in the Japanese operating lease market and built Latham & Watkins’ presence in that market.
“When I decided to make my move,” says Melson “the only way it made sense...
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