Debevoise & Plimpton has relocated a second New York partner to its newly launched Tokyo office.
The firm’s former deputy corporate chair Ezra Borut has joined the three-lawyer Tokyo office, which opened this year in March and is co-headed by partner Christopher Smeall and counsel Naomi Aoyama. Borut specializes in mergers and acquisitions with an emphasis on the energy, natural resources and infrastructure sectors. He joined Debevoise in New York straight out of the University of Chicago Law School in 1996 and became a partner in 2004.
