Simmons & Simmons has been forced to temporarily pull out of its Tokyo joint venture (JV) after delays registering new Tokyo head Jason Daniel as a foreign lawyer in the country.
Simmons needed to have at least one partner registered as a foreign lawyer in the Tokyo office in order to retain its joint venture with Japanese firm TMI Associates, but the loss of corporate partner and office head Rika Beppu and finance partner Philip Hyde to City rivals Lovells earlier this year left them without one.
