April 18, 2024 Awards
The Best Lawyers in Japan™ and Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch in Japan™ (2025 edition)
In the 2025 edition of The Best Lawyers in Japan™ by Best Lawyers®, five lawyers have been selected as "Lawyer of the Year" in the following areas.
- Hajime Tanahashi - Private Equity, Private Funds and Venture Capital Law
- Takahiro Kobayashi - Energy Law
- Takane Hori - FinTech Practice
- Sachiko Omuro - Litigation
- Hiroyuki Tanaka - Privacy and Data Security Law
Furthermore, 157 lawyers from our firm have been included in The Best Lawyers in Japan™, and 42 lawyers from our firm have been included in Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch in Japan™.
Best Lawyers
Antitrust / Competition Law
- Kenji Ito
- Hideki Utsunomiya
- Aruto Kagami
- Ryosuke Nishimoto
- Tomoya Fujita
- Yusuke Takamiya
- Aiko Mizuguchi
- Saori Takekoshi
- Masaki Kakimoto
Arbitration and Mediation
Asset Finance Law
Banking and Finance Law
Capital Markets Law
Corporate and Mergers and Acquisitions Law
- Satoshi Kawai
- Ko Fujita
- Hideki Matsui
- Soichiro Fujiwara
- Hajime Tanahashi
- Shigehiko Ishimoto
- Tomohiro Tsuchiya
- Takuya Eguchi
- Seiichi Okazaki
- Chisako Takaya
- Gaku Ishiwata
- Atsushi Oishi
- Katsumasa Suzuki
- Takeshi Komatsu
- Koji Toshima
- Yo Uraoka
- Takayuki Kihira
- Yoshihiro Kojima
- Rintaro Shinohara
- Atsunori Nobukuni
- Seiji Akimoto
- Akira Ehira
- Shuhei Kubota
- Shuhei Uchida
- Hirokazu Hayashi
- Kenichi Sekiguchi
- Munetaka Dai
- Akira Matsushita
- Atsushi Inoue
- Tetsu Takeuchi
- Yohsuke Higashi
- Tomoya Fujita
- Yusuke Matsui
- Daiki Ishikawa
- Norihito Sato
- Ryo Chikasawa
- Hideki Ben
- Norimitsu Mori
- Mikito Ishida
- Yasutaka Tokuda
- Reiya Nakano
- Kentaro Matsumura
- Nobuhiko Suzuki
- Hiroki Habuka
- Shimpei Ochi
- Takaaki Okano
Corporate Governance and Compliance Practice
- Hideki Matsui
- Takashi Miyatani
- Minoru Sawaguchi
- Yusuke Ishii
- Atsuko Taishido
- Shuhei Uchida
- Takeshi Okuyama
- Hideaki Umetsu
- Munetaka Dai
- Kohei Morita
- Shiho Ono
- Kunihiro Watanabe
- Hiroshi Yamauchi
- Yuta Kawashima
- Ryo Chikasawa
- Hideki Ben
- Kazuo Yoshida
- Hiromasa Arai
- Takamasa Horio
- Noriaki Wakabayashi
- Koki Kanemura
Criminal Defense
Derivatives
Energy Law
Financial Institution Regulatory Law
- Hideki Matsui
- Daisuke Oda
- Akira Ehira
- Takane Hori
- Takanori Ishikawa
- Tsuyoshi Shirakawa
- Takanori Shinohara
Fintech Practice
Information Technology Law
Insolvency and Reorganization Law
- Soichiro Fujiwara
- Airo Inoue
- Ryota Yamasaki
- Takahiro Inou
- Yusuke Matsui
- Dai Katagiri
- Wataru Ishida
- Takaaki Kanayama
- Yusuke Iino
Insurance Law
Intellectual Property Law
- Takuya Iizuka
- Hiroki Saito
- Tsunemichi Yokoyama
- Yutaka Miyoshi
- Koichiro Iida
- Yoshifumi Onodera
- Atsushi Okada
- Tetsushi Kamimura
International Arbitration
International Business Transactions
Investment and Investment Funds
Labor and Employment Law
Litigation
Media and Entertainment Law
Patent Law
Privacy and Data Security Law
Private Equity, Private Funds and Venture Capital Law
- Yasuzo Takeno
- Ken Miura
- Soichiro Fujiwara
- Hajime Tanahashi
- Gaku Ishiwata
- Atsushi Oishi
- Mitsue Tanaka
- Takayuki Kihira
- Rintaro Shinohara
- Masakazu Masujima
- Shuhei Kubota
- Shuhei Uchida
- Hirokazu Hayashi
- Kenichi Sekiguchi
- Shimpei Ochi
- Takeshi Fukuda
Product Liability Litigation
Project Finance and Development Practice
Real Estate Law
- Masanori Sato
- Toshifumi Ueda
- Eriko Ozawa
- Takeshi Mukawa
- Naoki Ishikawa
- Hiroki Aoyama
- Ryutaro Kawamura
- Susumu Hanawa
- Masahito Saeki
- Yusuke Nakajima
- Satoru Hasumoto
- Hironobu Noma
Sports Law
Structured Finance Law
Tax Law
Technology Law
Telecommunications Law
Trade Law
Transportation Law
Ones to Watch
Arbitration and Mediation
Banking and Finance Law
Capital Markets Law
- Ryo Onaka
- Keiichi Bando
- Yuka Ota
- Jun Umezawa
- Shinya Mizumoto
- Tomohiro Oka
- Kazuki Sawa
- Hiroki Yamaguchi
Corporate and Mergers and Acquisitions Law
Energy Law
Financial Institution Regulatory Law
Information Technology Law
Insolvency and Reorganization Law
Intellectual Property Law (Non-Patent)
International Business Transactions
Labor and Employment Law
Litigation
Maritime and Shipping Law
Personal Injury and Civil Litigation
Privacy and Data Security Law
Private Equity, Private Funds and Venture Capital Law
Project Finance and Development Practice
Real Estate Law
Structured Finance Law
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- People
- Yoichi Okuda Naosuke Ichikawa Yasuzo Takeno Kazuhiro Kanamaru Satoshi Kawai Takuya Iizuka Hiroki Saito Masanori Sato Ko Fujita Hideki Matsui Ken Miura Soichiro Fujiwara Takashi Miyatani Noboru Suwa Hajime Tanahashi Minoru Sawaguchi Akira Marumo Tsunemichi Yokoyama Shigehiko Ishimoto Tomohiro Tsuchiya Kensuke Ambe Takuya Eguchi Seiichi Okazaki Chisako Takaya Yutaka Miyoshi Koichiro Iida Toshifumi Ueda Gaku Ishiwata Kenji Ito Fumiharu Hiromoto Atsushi Oishi Eriko Ozawa Takahiro Kobayashi Mugi Sekido Takeshi Mukawa Masaru Arai Yasuhiko Fujitsu Naoki Ishikawa Yoshifumi Onodera Akiko Sueoka Katsumasa Suzuki Yusuke Ishii Airo Inoue Hideki Utsunomiya Daisuke Oda Taro Omoto Takeshi Komatsu Mitsue Tanaka Koji Toshima Ryota Yamasaki Yo Uraoka Takayuki Kihira Yoshihiro Kojima Rintaro Shinohara Atsuko Taishido Atsunori Nobukuni Hiromi Hayashi Masakazu Masujima Hiroko Yotsumoto Hiroki Aoyama Akira Ehira Atsushi Okada Aruto Kagami Tetsushi Kamimura Shuhei Kubota Yohei Koyama Takane Hori Taichi Arai Takanori Ishikawa Takahiro Inou Shuhei Uchida Nobuharu Onishi Shigeki Okatani Takeshi Okuyama Mihoko Shima Hideaki Umetsu Sachiko Omuro Ryutaro Kawamura Makoto Sakai Susumu Hanawa Hirokazu Hayashi Shinichiro Yokota Yoshikazu Abe Masakazu Kumagai Masahito Saeki Kenichi Sekiguchi Munetaka Dai Toshimitsu Nemoto Kohei Morita Shiho Ono Akira Matsushita Kunihiro Watanabe Atsushi Inoue Hiroshi Oyama Hiroki Kishi Seiji Akimoto Yoshihito Kuramochi Yusuke Suehiro Katsuyuki Tainaka Tetsu Takeuchi Hiroyuki Tanaka Ryosuke Nishimoto Yohsuke Higashi Tomoya Fujita Yusuke Matsui Yusuke Murakami Hiroshi Yamauchi Daiki Ishikawa Yuta Kawashima Kenta Kawabata Hiroyuki Kurihara Norihito Sato Tsuyoshi Shirakawa Yusuke Takamiya Ryo Chikasawa Yusuke Nakajima Satoru Hasumoto Hideki Ben Masafumi Masuda Aiko Mizuguchi Suguru Miyata Norimitsu Mori Kazuo Yoshida Hiromasa Arai Takanori Shinohara Yoshinori Tatsuno Dai Katagiri Hironobu Noma Takamasa Horio Noriaki Wakabayashi Mikito Ishida Masayuki Ishibashi Kei Shirakawa Saori Takekoshi Wataru Ishida Takaaki Kanayama Noboru Kitayama Seri Takahashi Yasutaka Tokuda Reiya Nakano Takafumi Goto Nobuhiko Suzuki Keita Nakano Masaki Kakimoto Koki Kanemura Takeshi Fukuda Daniel Allen Ayako Ikeda Daisuke Tsuta Kentaro Matsumura Colin Trehearne Naohisa Iimura Yusuke Iino Sayako Chujo Hiroki Habuka Shimpei Ochi Ryosuke Onobori Takaaki Okano Ayaka Isaji Kensuke Oki Akiko Okanari Satoshi Ogawa Ryo Onaka Jun Kimura Takahiro Kobayashi Yuki Sameshima Tasuku Suenaga Fumiya Sunose Go Chihara Shinichiro Nakano Masataka Hayano Keiichi Bando Takaaki Higuchi Kenta Minamitani Ryo Yoshino Kohei Wachi Jun Akimoto Shingo Ushirogata Shintaro Okawa Yuka Ota Shutaro Kuwahara Kento Hirata Yusuke Maeyama Midori Yamaguchi Shun Watanabe Jun Umezawa Yuki Kanematsu Hirotada Kobayashi Seiya Takao Saki Teraoka Yuki Tominaga Yuki Tominaga Shinya Mizumoto Kotaro Minamida Tomohiro Oka Kazuki Sawa Hiroki Yamaguchi Takeru Kondo Kota Inatsu Yusuke Watanabe
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- Mergers and Acquisitions Private Equity Venture Capital/Start-ups Corporate Governance Regulatory/Regulated Transactions Financial Regulation Real Estate Insurance Automobiles, Aviation and Ships Finance Capital Markets Structured Finance Banking Project Finance Disputes/Dispute Resolution Bankruptcy/Restructuring Crisis Management Competition/Antitrust Information Technology, Life Sciences and Intellectual Property Information Technology Intellectual Property and Entertainment Data Protection and Privacy Intellectual Property Disputes Tax Labor Law International Practice Infrastructure/Energy Fintech
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