Orrick Tokyo adds another partner

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe has continued beefing up its Tokyo practice with Shintaro Kuroda becoming the twelfth partner appointed this year. Kuroda joins the international law firm from the Tokyo offices of Yodoyabashi & Yamagami, where he was formally a partner and bengoshi, a Japanese equivalent of barrister. For his new firm, Kuroda brings experience through a practice that focuses on IT and IP transactional work, corporate transactions and equity capital markets ma…