In the "Corporate Legal Tax Affairs and Lawyer Survey" published by Nikkei Inc., the following lawyers have been chosen as the Best Performing Lawyers of 2022 (as selected by companies and overall (by both companies and lawyers)). In the same survey, Mori Hamada & Matsumoto was ranked third and also received the highest evaluation of all law firms as a Reliable Law Firm (as selected by companies) for “Response to a wide range of fields.”

Lawyer Ranking Selected by Companies and Overall (By Both Companies and Lawyers)

• General Corporate Legal Affairs Category
  Gaku Ishiwata（7th by companies; 7th overall）
  Minoru Sawaguchi（9th by companies; 8th overall）
  Takuya Eguchi（9th by companies）
  Kunihiro Watanabe（11th overall）
  Yusuke Ishii（17th overall）

• International Trade and Economic Security Category
  Hideaki Umetsu（1st by companies; 2nd overall）
  Shigehiko Ishimoto（5th by companies; 6th overall）
  Shintaro Okawa（6th by companies; 9th overall）
  Takuya Eguchi（9th by companies）
  Kunio Miyaoka（11th overall）

• Labor Category
  Chisako Takaya（5th by companies; 3rd overall）
  Taichi Arai（6th by companies; 6th overall）
  Yoshikazu Abe（10th overall）

• Intellectual Property Category
  Yoshifumi Onodera（5th by companies; 18th overall）
  Yutaka Miyoshi（7th by companies; 12th overall）
  Masafumi Masuda（10th overall）
  Tetsushi Kamimura（12th overall）
  Hiroyuki Tanaka（16th overall）

• Antitrust/Competition Law Category
  Kenji Ito（6th by companies; 5th overall）
  Yusuke Takamiya（12th by companies; 12th overall）
  Hideki Utsunomiya（12th overall）

“Reliable Law Firm” Ranking Selected by Companies

Mori Hamada & Matsumoto（3rd）