Mori Hamada & Matsumoto is pleased to announce a significant expansion of its intellectual property practice through a merger, effective July 1, 2005, with Max Law Offices, a Tokyo-based firm with highly regarded expertise in the areas of copyrights, trademarks and patents, as well as information technology, the Internet, media and entertainment law.

Lawyers from Max Law Offices:　
  Masayuki Matsuda, Yumiko Waseda, Hiroki Saito, Hiroko Yamamoto, Atsushi Hayakawa,
  Shinichiro Yoshiba, Satoshi Ikemura, Tetsushi Kamimura, Soichi Otani,
  Makoto Sakai, Masao Handa