Mori Hamada & Matsumoto (Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo) is pleased to announce that it will open an office in Bangkok, Thailand.

The opening of the Bangkok Office reflects the steady growth of our firm’s legal practice throughout Southeast Asia, and will build upon the services provided through our existing regional offices in Singapore and Yangon. We continue to see an increase in demand for Japan-related legal support from lawyers able to provide on-site services in Thailand. Our lawyers have been working on Thai matters for clients for many years and we have seconded our lawyers to leading Thai firms. To ensure that we continue to meet the challenges of this dynamic marketplace and provide world-class services for our clients, we have decided to open our Bangkok Office.

The Bangkok Office will be headed by Representative Partner, Masatake Yone, who has over 35 years of practical experience handling a broad range of international transactions. He will be joined by Hidetomo Futami, who has been working in Thailand since 2012, and Seiji Akimoto, who will relocate to Bangkok from Tokyo. Both Hidetomo Futami and Seiji Akimoto have significant experience in cross-border matters. The Bangkok Office will also be supported with the broad-based legal expertise of our lawyers in our domestic offices in Tokyo, Osaka and Fukuoka, as well as our lawyers in our other overseas offices, including those in Singapore and Yangon. The addition of the Bangkok Office will enhance our ability to meet our clients’ diverse legal needs in Thailand and in the Southeast and South Asia regions generally, and to provide on-site services to private and governmental entities in those regions for Japan-related legal matters.

Our Bangkok Office will be located in the same building as Chandler & Thong-Ek Law Offices Limited and we will continue to work closely with that firm as our main source of support for Thai related legal matters. The two firms will continue to exchange secondees.

Following the opening of our offices in Singapore in 2012 and Yangon in 2014, this new office in Bangkok will enable us to draw upon the experience and expertise we have gained handling complex legal matters specific to rapidly growing economies, as well as our years of experience handling a variety of cross-border transactions and projects, and will position us to expand our legal services for businesses throughout Asia.

The opening of the Bangkok Office is scheduled for the spring of 2015. Further announcements will be made when the opening date and other details are finalized.

Send any inquiry about this announcement to:

Mori Hamada & Matsumoto, Public Relations
Tel: +81-3-6212-8330
Email: mhm_info@mhmjapan.com