International Corporate Finance

INTERNATIONAL CORPORATE FINANCE RANKINGS

JAPAN BEST DOMESTIC LAW FIRMS

M&A

The firms are listed alphabetically within each band

FIRMS LEADING PARTNERS

LEADING

Mori Hamada & Matsumoto Gaku Ishiwata, Satoko Kuwabara, Hajime Tanahashi

Nagashima Ohno & Tsunematsu Kenichi Fujinawa, Hiroki Inoue, Tomohiko Iwasaki

Nishimura & Asahi Takashi Ejiri, Masakazu Iwakura, Yoshinobu Fujimoto

EXCELLENT

Anderson Mori & Tomotsune Osamu Hirakawa, Kenichi Masuda, Hirohito Akagami

Oh-Ebashi LPC & Partners Shiro Kuniya, Hirohiko Ikeda

TMI Associates Kunio Namekata, Yusuke Kashiwagi

HIGHLY RECOMMENDED

Atsumi & Sakai Masaji Hashimoto, Ian S. Scott

City-Yuwa Partners Masahiro Terada, Hitoshi Sakai

RECOMMENDED

Hibiya-Nakata Nobuo Nakata, Koki Yamada

Iwata Godo Hiroki Ito, Yoshihiro Toji

Track record: Mr. Ishiwata and his team

recently represented Mitsui Life Insurance in

their ¥500 billion acquisition by Nippon Life

Insurance. Notable deals include advising

Daihatsu in Toyota’s buyout, and advising

Japan Tobacco in the $1.2 billion sale of its

beverage business to Suntory. Other signi-

ficant clients are Bain Capital Asia, Asahi

Brewers and The Bank of Yokohama.

Team & differentiation: The M&A team

consists of approximately 100 attorneys. A

number of attorneys have also participated in

enacting some Japanese regulations. Being

one of the largest law firms in Japan, Mori

Hamada Matsumoto has ten offices located

in Japan, China, Thailand, Myanmar and Sin-

gapore. The firm opened a Jakarta desk in

January 2016.

L eaders:

Gaku Ishiwata, Satoko

Kuwabara and Hajime

Tanahashi

E stablished:

2002

Gaku Ishiwata

MORI HAMADA MATSUMOTO: A LEADING PRACTITIONER IN THE M&A MARKET