Allen & Overy expanding capability in Tokyo

The US practice headed up by Piyasena Perera will focus on debt and equity capital markets work and corporate M&A transactions. Associates who will relocate to the firm's Tokyo office over the course of 2002 will support the practice.The first appointment will be Thomas Vogel, a fluent Japanese speaker who will be seconded from the New York office. The new practice will also provide support to the US practice throughout the rest of Asia, which has already grown to 12 lawyers in to…