Mori Hamada & Matsumoto has been ranked in the top tier of recommended law firms in Japan, Thailand (Chandler MHM Limited), Myanmar (Myanmar Legal MHM Limited) and Vietnam for several areas of practice in The Legal 500 Asia Pacific 2024. 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
• 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, Toshimitsu Nemoto
• 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, Shigeki Okatani
• Restructuring and insolvency: Soichiro Fujiwara, Ryota Yamasaki​, Takahiro Inou
• Risk management and investigations: Yasuhiko Fujitsu, Hideaki Umetsu, Hiroshi Yamauchi
• Tax: Makoto Sakai
• TMT: Hiromi Hayashi​, 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
• Fintech: Masayuki Ishibashi
• Private wealth: Hiroshi Oyama
• Projects and energy: Yusuke Murakami, Hironobu Noma
• Real estate and construction: Masahito Saeki, Satoru Hasumoto
• Restructuring and insolvency: Dai Katagiri
• Tax: Hiroshi Oyama, Hiroyuki Kurihara
• TMT: Daisuke Tsuta

Rising Stars

• Antitrust and competition: Saori Takekoshi
• Fintech: Katsuya Terai
• Intellectual property: Hideaki Kuwahara
• Labour and employment: Fumiko Hama
• Private wealth: Yoshihiko Abe
• Risk management and investigations: Takaaki Kanayama, Kazuhito Imaizumi

THAILAND

Practice areas

Tier 1

• Projects & energy

Tier 2

• Banking and finance
• Corporate and M&A
• Dispute resolution
• Restructuring and insolvency

Tier 3

• Insurance
• 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 
• Real estate and construction: Joseph Tisuthiwongse ​

Rising Stars

• Projects and energy: Tip-apa Limvichai

MYANMAR

Practice areas

Tier 1

• Projects

Tier 2

• Corporate and M&A

Lawyers

Leading Individuals

• Projects: Takeshi Mukawa

Next Generation Partners

• Corporate and M&A: Atsushi Inoue
• Projects: Khin Cho Kyi

VIETNAM

Practice areas

Tier 2

• Real estate and construction

Tier 4

• Banking and finance
• Corporate and M&A