The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism in Japan has been continuing an initiative to promote PPP/PFI project.

In this initiative, several private companies are selected to be a partner to provide advisor/consulting services to both public side and private side. This year, our firm is the only law firm which was selected as such a partner. The nomination of a partner is publicly announced in the homepage of the MLIT here (only Japanese available): http://www.mlit.go.jp/report/press/sogo21_hh_000078.html

The list of consultants are here (only Japanese available): http://www.mlit.go.jp/common/001232821.pdf

This selection is a result of one of our partners who has strong practice in finance (CC in this email). We have set up a team in our firm to facilitate PPP/PFI promotion, having him in a center of the team.