Mori Hamada & Matsumoto has been ranked in the top tier of recommended law firms in all categories in Japan by IFLR1000 2024. The firm’s lawyers have received prestigious rankings in practice areas as shown below.

Our offices in Singapore, Thailand (Chandler MHM Limited) and Vietnam and their lawyers have also received high accolades in their respective jurisdictions.

For more information, please refer to the IFLR1000 website.

Practice Areas

JAPAN

• Banking (Tier 1)
• Capital markets : Debt (Tier 1)
• Capital markets : Equity (Tier 1)
• Capital markets : Structured finance and securitisation (Tier 1)
• M&A (Tier 1)
• Private equity (Tier 1)
• Project development (Tier 1)
• Project finance (Tier 1)

THAILAND

• Banking and finance (Tier 1)
• Projects (Tier 1)
• Restructuring and insolvency (Tier 1)
• M&A (Tier 2)
• Capital markets : Debt (Tier 3)
• Capital markets : Equity (Tier 3)

VIETNAM

• M&A (Tier 4)
• Banking and finance (Notable)
• Projects (Notable)

Lawyers

JAPAN

• Banking
  Market leader: Masanori Sato
  Highly regarded: Yasuzo Takeno, Noboru Suwa, Eriko Ozawa, Takeshi Mukawa, Hiroki Aoyama, Toshimitsu Nemoto
  Expert consultant：Hiroshi Maeda
  Notable practitioner: Akira Marumo, Toshifumi Ueda
• Banking and finance
  Rising star partner: Kei Shirakawa, Yuki Matsuda
• Capital markets
  Market leader: Katsumasa Suzuki
  Highly regarded: Takeshi Mukawa
• ​Capital markets - Debt
  Highly regarded: Kensuke Ambe, Yasuhiko Fujitsu, Katsuyuki Tainaka, Masayuki Ishibashi
• Capital markets -Equity
  Highly regarded: Kensuke Ambe, Taro Omoto, Suguru Miyata, Masayuki Ishibashi
  Notable practitioner: Sonoko Amano
  Rising star partner: Masahito Saeki, Takafumi Goto
• Capital markets -Structured finance and securitisation
  Market leader: Masanori Sato
  Highly regarded: Noboru Suwa, Eriko Ozawa, Akira Ehira, Toshimitsu Nemoto
  Rising star partner: Yoshihito Kuramochi
• REIT
  Highly regarded: Taro Omoto, Toshimitsu Nemoto
• Investment funds
  Highly regarded: Ken Miura
• M&A
  Market leader: Katsumasa Suzuki
  Highly regarded: Satoshi Kawai, Hajime Tanahashi, Gaku Ishiwata, Atsushi Oishi, Shuhei Uchida, Toshimitsu Nemoto, Akira Matsushita
  Notable Practitioner: Akira Marumo, Koji Toshima, Rintaro Shinohara, Hirokazu Hayashi, Masakazu Kumagai, Kenichi Sekiguchi, Yohsuke Higashi, Hideki Ben, Takeshi Fukuda
• Private equity
  Highly regarded: Hajime Tanahashi, Gaku Ishiwata, Akira Matsushita
  Notable practitioner: Hirokazu Hayashi, Hideki Ben, Takeshi Fukuda
• Financial and corporate
  Notable practitioner: Hideki Ben
• Projects
  Market leader：Takahiro Kobayashi
• Projects：Energy​
  Highly regarded: Takeshi Mukawa
  Expert consultant：Hiroshi Maeda
• Project development
  ​Highly regarded: Shigeki Okatani
• Project development: Infrastructure
  ​Highly regarded: Takeshi Mukawa
  Expert consultant：Hiroshi Maeda
• Project finance
  Highly regarded: Takeshi Mukawa, Shigeki Okatani, Yusuke Murakami
  Expert consultant: Hiroshi Maeda
  Notable practitioner: Mihoko Shima
  Rising star partner: Yusuke Suehiro
• Restructuring and insolvency
  Highly regarded: Hajime Tanahashi

SINGAPORE

• Capital markets - Debt
  Expert consultant: Tony Grundy
• Capital markets - Equity
  Expert consultant: Tony Grundy

THAILAND

• Banking
  Market leader: Jessada Sawatdipong
  Highly regarded: Joseph Tisuthiwongse, Pranee Klinratana, Supattra Sathapornnanon
• Banking and finance
  Notable practitioner: Sarunporn Chaianant
  Rising star partner: Tip-apa Limvichai
• Capital markets
  Highly regarded: Arkrapol Pichedvanichok, Tananan Thammakiat
• M&A
  Highly regarded: Arkrapol Pichedvanichok
  Notable practitioner: Panupan Udomsuvannakul
• Project development
  Highly regarded: Joseph Tisuthiwongse
• Project finance
  Market leader: Jessada Sawatdipong
  Highly regarded: Joseph Tisuthiwongse, Pranee Klinratana, Supattra Sathapornnanon
• Restructuring and insolvency
  Notable practitioner: Supalerk Rugsarigorn
  Rising star partner: Nathee Silacharoen, Tawatchai Boonmayapan

VIETNAM

•  M&A
  Highly regarded: Nguyen Ngoc Phuc
  Notable practitioner: Kenji Nishio
  Rising star partner: Ha Thi Dung