Latham & Watkins has added a new partner in Tokyo focusing on Japanese law matters.

Hiroaki Takagi joins from Nishimura & Asahi where he’d been a partner since 2015 advising securities and corporate transactions. He has an LL.M. from the University of Chicago Law School and practiced with Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison briefly before returning to Japan in 2009.