Mori Hamada & Matsumoto has been ranked in the top tier of recommended law firms in Japan, Thailand and Myanmar for several areas of practice in The Legal 500 Asia Pacific 2022. The following lawyers have been acknowledged as “Hall of Fame,” “Leading Individuals,” “Next Generation Partners” or “Rising Stars” in those practice areas.

For more information, please refer to the Legal 500 website.

　　

JAPAN

Practice areas

Tier 1

• Antitrust and competition
• Banking and finance
• Capital markets
• Corporate and M&A
• Dispute resolution
• Fintech
• Intellectual property
• Investment funds
• Labour and employment
• Private wealth 
• Projects and energy
• Real estate and construction
• Restructuring and insolvency
• Risk management and investigations
• Tax

Tier 2

• TMT

Lawyers

Hall of Fame

• Antitrust and competition: Hideki Utsunomiya
• Capital markets: Katsumasa Suzuki
• Corporate and M&A: Gaku Ishiwata
• Real estate and construction: Eriko Ozawa
• Tax: Atsushi Oishi

Leading Individuals

• Antitrust and competition: Kenji Ito
• Banking and finance: Masanori Sato, Takahiro Kobayashi, Hiroki Aoyama
• Capital markets: Taro Omoto
• Corporate and M&A: Hajime Tanahashi, Atsushi Oishi, Akira Matsushita
• Dispute resolution: Koichiro Iida, Mugi Sekido
• Fintech: Masakazu Masujima, Takane Hori
• Intellectual property: Yutaka Miyoshi, Yoshifumi Onodera, Atsushi Okada
• Investment fund: Yasuzo Takeno, Ken Miura, Nobuharu Onishi
• Labour and employment: Chisako Takaya, Taichi Arai, Yoshikazu Abe
• Private wealth: Atsushi Oishi, Makoto Sakai
• Projects and energy: Takahiro Kobayashi, Naoki Ishikawa, Shigeki Okatani
• Real estate and construction: Masanori Sato
• Restructuring and insolvency: Soichiro Fujiwara
• Risk management and investigations: Yasuhiko Fujitsu, Hideaki Umetsu
• Tax: Makoto Sakai
• TMT: Atsushi Okada

Next Generation Partners

• Antitrust and competition: Tomoya Fujita
• Banking and finance: Yusuke Suehiro, Kei Shirakawa
• Capital markets: Katsuyuki Tainaka
• Dispute resolution: Daniel Allen
• Private wealth: Hiroshi Oyama
• Projects and energy: Yusuke Murakami, Yusuke Suehiro
• Risk management and investigations: Hiroshi Yamauchi
• Tax: Hiroyuki Kurihara, Hiroshi Oyama

Rising Stars

• Fintech: Kei Furuichi
• Labour and employment: Fumiko Hama
• Projects and energy: Hironobu Noma
• Restructuring and insolvency: Dai Katagiri

THAILAND

Practice areas

Tier 1

• Projects & energy

Tier 2

• Banking and finance
• Corporate and M&A

Tier 3

• Dispute resolution
• Labour and employment
• Real estate and construction

Lawyers

Hall of Fame

• Banking and finance: Jessada Sawatdipong
• Projects and energy: Jessada Sawatdipong

Leading Individuals

• Banking and finance: Joseph Tisuthiwongse 
• Projects and Energy: Joseph Tisuthiwongse 

MYANMAR

Practice areas

Tier 2

• Corporate and M&A
• Projects

Lawyers

Next Generation Partner

• Corporate and M&A: Atsushi Inoue