Mori Hamada & Matsumoto has been ranked in the top tier of recommended law firms in Japan by the IFLR1000 FINANCIAL AND CORPORATE 2020.  Thirty-eight of the firm’s lawyers have received prestigious rankings as Market Leaders and Highly Regarded Lawyers.  For more information, please refer to the IFLR1000 web site.  Our Yangon Office is the only Japanese firm in Yangon to be ranked as “Recommended firm” and to receive such a high ranking.  Our Bangkok Office (Chandler MHM Limited) and five of its lawyers have also received prestigious rankings as shown below.

 For more information, please refer to the IFLR1000 web site.

Practice areas

JAPAN

Tier 1

• Banking
• Capital markets: Debt
• Capital markets: Equity
• Capital markets: Structured finance and securitisation
• M&A
• Project development

Tier 2

• Project finance

MYANMAR

Tier 2

• Financial and corporate

THAILAND (Chandler MHM Limited)

Tier 1

• Banking and finance
• Project development

Tier 2

• M&A

Tier 3

• Capital markets: Debt
• Capital markets: Equity

弁護士

JAPAN

• Banking
  Market Leader: Masanori Sato
  Highly Regarded Lawyer: Toru Ishiguro, Satoko Kuwabara, Noboru Suwa, Eriko Ozawa, Takahiro Kobayashi, Takeshi Mukawa, Hiroki Aoyama
• Notable Practitioner: Yasuzo Takeno, Akira Marumo, Toshifumi Ueda, Toshimitsu Nemoto
• Capital markets
  Highly Regarded Lawyer: Takeshi Mukawa
• ​Capital markets - Debt
  Highly Regarded Lawyer: Toru Ishiguro, Eiko Hakoda, Kensuke Ambe, Katsumasa Suzuki, Tony Grundy
  Notable Practitioner: Yasuhiko Fujitsu
• Capital markets -Equity
  Highly Regarded Lawyer: Toru Ishiguro, Kensuke Ambe, Katsumasa Suzuki, Taro Omoto, Tony Grundy
• Capital markets -Structured finance and securitisation
  Market Leader: Masanori Sato
  Highly Regarded Lawyer: Noboru Suwa, Eriko Ozawa, Takahiro Kobayashi
  Notable Practitioner: Toshimitsu Nemoto
• Capital markets -REIT
  Highly Regarded Lawyer: Taro Omoto
  Notable Practitioner: Toshimitsu Nemoto
• Energy & Infrastructure
  Highly Regarded Lawyer: Takahiro Kobayashi, Takeshi Mukawa
• Investment funds
  Notable Practitioner: Ken Miura
• M&A
  Highly Regarded Lawyer: Satoshi Kawai, Satoko Kuwabara、Hajime Tanahashi, Gaku Ishiwata, Atsushi Oishi, Yuto Matsumura
  Notable Practitioner: Shin Kikuchi, Akira Marumo, Koji Toshima, Rintaro Shinohara, Shuhei Uchida, Hirokazu Hayashi, Masakazu Kumagai, Kenichi Sekiguchi, Toshimitsu Nemoto, Naoya Shiota
• Private equity
  Highly Regarded Lawyer: Hajime Tanahashi, Gaku Ishiwata
  Notable Practitioner: Hirokazu Hayashi
• Project development
  Highly Regarded Lawyer: Takahiro Kobayashi
• Project finance
  Highly Regarded Lawyer: Takahiro Kobayashi, Takeshi Mukawa
• Restructuring & Insolvency
  Highly Regarded Lawyer: Hajime Tanahashi

THAILAND (Chandler MHM Limited)

• Banking
  Market Leader: Jessada Saatdipong
  Highly Regarded Lawyer: Albert Chandler、Pranee Klinratana、Supattra Sathapornnanon
• Energy and infrastructure
  Market Leader: Jessada Saatdipong
• Project development
  Highly Regarded Lawyer: Albert Chandler
• Project finance
  Market Leader: Jessada Saatdipong
  Highly Regarded Lawyer: Albert Chandler、Ratana Poonsombudlert、Pranee Klinratana、Supattra Sathapornnanon
• M&A
  Highly Regarded Lawyer: Ratana Poonsombudlert

Industory Sector

JAPAN

• Banking
  Highly Regarded Lawyer: Noboru Suwa
• Energy
  Highly Regarded Lawyer: Takahiro Kobayashi, Takeshi Mukawa
• Financial services
  Highly Regarded Lawyer: Noboru Suwa
• Insurance
  Highly Regarded Lawyer: Satoshi Kawai
  Notable Practitioner: Yasuhiko Fujitsu
• Investment management
  Notable Practitioner: Ken Miura
• Media
• Pharmaceuticals & Life Sciences
  Highly Regarded Lawyer: Hajime Tanahashi, Noboru Suwa, Satoshi Kawai
• Real estate
  Highly Regarded Lawyer: Noboru Suwa, Eriko Ozawa, Taro Omoto
  Notable Practitioner: Yasuhiko Fujitsu, Toshimitsu Nemoto
• Technology & Telecommunications
  Highly Regarded Lawyer: Hajime Tanahashi

THAILAND (Chandler MHM Limited)

• Energy
  Market Leader: Jessada Saatdipong
  Highly Regarded Lawyer: Albert Chandler、Ratana Poonsombudlert、Pranee Klinratana、Supattra Sathapornnanon
• Oil and gas
  Market Leader: Jessada Saatdipong
  Highly Regarded Lawyer: Albert Chandler、Ratana Poonsombudlert
• Mining
  Highly Regarded Lawyer: Ratana Poonsombudlert
• Natural resources
  Highly Regarded Lawyer: Supattra Sathapornnanon
• Real estate
  Highly Regarded Lawyer: Pranee Klinratana
• Utilities
  Market Leader: Jessada Saatdipong