Based on research conducted by Asia Business Law Journal, the following are Japan’s top 100 lawyers.
Click here to read the editorial report that accompanies the A-List.
Biographies and contact details, where provided, were written by the lawyers themselves and have not been independently verified.
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Mitsue Aizawa TMI Associates |
| Key practice areas: Civil rehabilitation & corporate reorganisation; bankruptcy & special liquidation; voluntary liquidation & ADR for business turnaround; commercial litigation; unfair competition | |
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Takashi Akahane Anderson Mori & Tomotsune |
| Key practice areas: PPP/PFI/concession; project finance; asset management & investment funds; structured finance; real estate finance | |
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Izumi Akai Sullivan & Cromwell |
| Key practice areas: Corporate governance; healthcare & life sciences; financial services; insurance; M&A; commercial real estate | |
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Hiroki Aoyama Mori Hamada & Matsumoto |
| Key practice areas: Banking & finance; M&A; project finance; real estate; securitisation & structured finance | |
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Naoya Ariyoshi Nishimura & Asahi |
| Key practice areas: Banking & finance; capital markets; compliance; e-commerce, fintech, blockchain & cryptos; securitisation & structured finance | |
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Hiroo Atsumi Atsumi & Sakai |
| Key practice areas: Banking & finance; capital markets & structured finance; general corporate; project finance; real estate | |
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Rupert Burrows Mayer Brown |
| Key practice areas: Banking & finance; M&A; joint ventures & strategic alliances; litigation & dispute resolution; supply chain & distribution | |
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Dale Caldwell Morrison & Foerster |
| Key practice areas: Project finance; power & energy; M&A; banking & finance; infrastructure |
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Alan Cannon Simpson Thacher |
| Key practice areas: IPOs; debt; capital markets; corporate; M&A | |
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Mark Davies King & Spalding |
| Key practice areas: M&A; outbound investment; power & energy; private equity, venture capital & funds; project finance | |
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Tomoki Debari Anderson Mori & Tomotsune |
| Key practice areas: Finance & financial institutions; dispute resolution; real estate | |
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Naoaki Eguchi Baker McKenzie |
| Key practice areas: Acquisition finance; banking & finance; consumer goods & retail; energy, mining & infrastructure; financial institutions | |
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Akira Ehira Mori Hamada & Matsumoto |
| Key practice areas: Banking & finance; capital markets; compliance; private equity, venture capital & funds; securitisation & structured finance | |
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Peter W Frost Linklaters |
| Key practice areas: Banking & finance, capital markets | |
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Yoshinobu Fujimoto Nishimura & Asahi |
| Key practice areas: Corporate & commercial; corporate governance; joint ventures; litigation; M&A | |
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Kenichi Fujinawa Nagashima Ohno & Tsunematsu |
| Key practice areas: M&A; corporate governance; risk and crisis management & compliance; Asia; North America; Latin America | |
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Koji Fujita Anderson Mori & Tomotsune |
| Key practice areas: Corporate; M&A; labour & employment; taxation | |
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Motoyasu Fujita Linklaters |
| Key practice areas: Banking & finance; bankruptcy & insolvency; capital markets; securitisation & structured finance; derivatives, repos & securities lending |
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Soichiro Fujiwara Mori Hamada & Matsumoto |
| Key practice areas: Bankruptcy & restructuring; M&A; corporate governance; corporate & commercial disputes | |
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Ryan Goldstein Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan |
| Key practice areas: Anti-corruption & anti-bribery; arbitration & ADR; competition & antitrust; IP; litigation | |
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Izuru Goto City-Yuwa Partners |
| Key practice areas: General corporate; renewable energy; banking & finance; capital markets; structured finance, acquisition finance & securitisation | |
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Jon Gray Davis Polk & Wardwell |
| Key practice areas: Capital markets; securities regulatory; general corporate | |
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Keiji Hatano Sullivan & Cromwell |
| Key practice areas: Capital markets; defence; joint ventures; M&A; financial regulations | |
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Kaoru Hattori Nagashima Ohno & Tsunematsu |
| Key practice areas: General corporate; antitrust & competition law advice; antitrust litigation & investigation; merger control; international trade | |
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Yushi Hegawa Nagashima Ohno & Tsunematsu |
| Key practice areas: Corporate & commercial; corporate governance; litigation; succession planning (family office); taxation | |
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Takao Higuchi Nagashima Ohno & Tsunematsu |
| Key practice areas: General corporate; banking; project finance; restructuring; insolvency | |
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Masahisa Ikeda Shearman & Sterling |
| Key practice areas: Capital markets; M&A; global compliance & anticorruption (FCPA); antitrust; financial institutions advisory & financial regulatory | |
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Seishi Ikeda Baker McKenzie |
| Tel: +81 3 6271 9444 Email: seishi.ikeda@bakermckenzie.com Key practice areas: Banking & finance; capital markets; private equity; venture capital & funds; real estate; securitisation & structured finance |
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| Seishi Ikeda is a partner at Baker McKenzie and head of the real estate group at its Tokyo office. He graduated from the University of Tokyo (LLB, 1991) and Emory School of Law (LLM, 2000). He is a qualified lawyer in Japan (1994) and New York (2001). He served as an in-house lawyer at a large European investment bank (2002-2004).
For years, he has been a member of the Japan Securities Dealers Association’s (JSDA) solicitation working group. He is also admitted and registered as a real estate notary (2018), condominium manager (2019), and master property manager (2019). His recent focuses are mainly on real estate transactions, involving TK-GK and TMK schemes as tax-oriented structures, where underlying assets are commercial or residential buildings, hotels, logistics and data centres. He covers office relocations, building construction, renovation and leases. He also handles listing-related matters, IPOs, samurai bonds, investment funds, and cross-border M&A deals. |
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Hiroki Inoue Nagashima Ohno & Tsunematsu |
| Key practice areas: M&A; private equity & venture capital; acquisition finance; disputes in foreign jurisdictions; insurance | |
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Miyuki Ishiguro Nagashima Ohno & Tsunematsu |
| Key practice areas: Capital market; corporate | |
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Gaku Ishiwata Mori Hamada & Matsumoto |
| Key practice areas: M&A; corporate governance; crisis management; private equity & venture capital | |
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Kei Ito Nishimura & Asahi |
| Key practice areas: Banking & finance; compliance; private equity; venture capital & funds; technology, media & telecommunications | |
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Maya Ito Nishimura & Asahi |
| Key practice areas: Banking & finance; infrastructure; power & energy; project finance; real estate | |
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Masakazu Iwakura TMI Associates |
| Key practice areas: Corporate & commercial; IP; litigation; M&A; technology, media & telecommunications | |
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Masatsura Kadota Nagashima Ohno & Tsunematsu |
| Key practice areas: Banking & finance; capital markets; corporate & commercial; M&A; real estate | |
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Mitsuhiro Kamiya Skadden |
| Key practice areas: Corporate & commercial; inbound investment; joint ventures; M&A; outbound investment | |
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Eiji Katayama Abe Ikubo & Katayama |
| Key practice areas: IP; bankruptcy & insolvency; patent litigation; unfair competition litigation; corporate | |
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Kozo Kawai Nishimura & Asahi |
| Key practice areas: Competition & antitrust; compliance; international trade & bilateral investment treaties; white-collar crime | |
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Hisaya Kimura Nagashima Ohno & Tsunematsu |
| Key practice areas: Complex commercial litigation; antitrust litigation; labour litigation; international arbitration | |
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Mangyo Kinoshita Southgate |
| Key practice areas: Corporate & commercial; M&A; outbound investment; private equity, venture capital & funds; technology, media & telecommunications | |
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Minoru Kobayashi Anderson Mori & Tomotsune |
| Tel: +81 3 6775 1052 Email: minoru.kobayashi@amt-law.com Key practice areas: Real estate finance; REITs; capital markets; structured finance; M&A |
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| Minoru Kobayashi is a partner at Anderson Mori & Tomotsune and has been involved in a wide range of real estate transactions, including the sale and purchase of the real estate, commercial leasing and real estate developments. Kobayashi has particular strength in complex real estate finance and real estate funds, and regularly represents lenders, sponsors, asset managers, developers, investors and other key players, including various financial institutions and global real estate funds, dealing with various types of assets including office buildings, residential buildings, commercial facilities, logistics facilities, hotels and healthcare assets.
Kobayashi’s practice also focuses on capital market transactions and has represented foreign issuers and managers in public and private offerings of debt and equity securities in Japan and globally. With the combination of his experience in real estate and capital markets, he is also highly experienced in handling public and private offerings of units of Japanese real estate investment trusts (REITs). Kobayashi’s practice also focuses on securitisation, the establishment of investment funds and other structured financing transactions involving numerous asset classes. In addition to his real estate, capital market and structured finance practice, Kobayashi also has experience in M&As and general corporate matters including corporate restructurings, licensing and international trade. Kobayashi is a graduate of the University of Tokyo (LLB, 1995) and the University of Virginia (LLM, 2002). He is admitted to practice law in Japan (1997) and New York (2003). |
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Nobuaki Kobayashi Nagashima Ohno & Tsunematsu |
| Key practice areas: Restructuring & insolvency; general corporate; M&A; civil & commercial disputes | |
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Takahiro Kobayashi Mori Hamada & Matsumoto |
| Key practice areas: Banking & finance; power & energy; project finance; securitisation & structured finance | |
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Kohei Koikawa Nishimura & Asahi |
| Key practice areas: Banking & finance; capital markets; corporate & commercial; technology, media & telecommunications | |
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Hiroshi Kondo Baker McKenzie |
| Key practice areas: M&A; private equity investment; venture capital; corporate & commercial; labour | |
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Eiichiro Kubota Kubota |
| Key practice areas: Data protection; IP; litigation; technology, media & telecommunications | |
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Yoshio Kumakura Nakamura & Partners |
| Key practice areas: IP; antimonopoly; litigation; arbitration; dispute resolution | |
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Hiroyoshi Kuromaru TMI Associates |
| Key practice areas: General corporate; corporate governance; IPO; structured finance; project finance | |
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Satoko Kuwabara Gaien Partners |
| Key practice areas: Banking & finance; corporate & commercial; corporate governance; M&A | |
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Leng-Fong Lai Clifford Chance |
| Key practice areas: Financial regulation; capital markets; structured finance; project finance; real estate finance | |
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David MacArthur Anderson Mori & Tomotsune |
| Tel: +81 3 6775 1690 Email: david.macarthur@amt-law.com Key practice areas: Arbitration & ADR; international trade & bilateral investment treaties; litigation |
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| As co-head of international arbitration at Anderson Mori & Tomotsune, David MacArthur is the first non-Japanese lawyer to lead practice at a Japanese firm. He jointly oversees a large, integrated team operating across the firm’s pan-Asian office network, representing a variety of different nationalities, qualifications and languages. In this role, he is responsible for the firm’s global case portfolio as well as for strategic planning and promotion, team training and development, and knowledge management.
A US national who started his legal career in US commercial litigation, David joined a fast-rising international arbitration practice in Seoul in 2006 that went on to be listed every year in GAR100 and several times in GAR30 or runner-up – one of few to reach global prominence from a regional posture. He has had a leading role in over 50 major arbitrations, often high-value and complex, seated in jurisdictions across Asia, Europe and North America and in a variety of industries such as automotive, construction, online gaming, pharmaceutical and biotech, real estate, shipbuilding and telecommunications, ranging from several million to several billion US dollars in value. In addition to commercial work, he advises and represents clients in investor-state disputes. David recently represented an investor in a treaty-based dispute against an Asian state alleging illicit interference and pressure campaign in connection with the client’s exercise of its shareholder rights in a private entity. He also represented a client in defending its IP rights in arbitration in connection with one of the longest-running online games in the China market in a highly complex, far-reaching, multi-jurisdictional, high-stakes dispute, with potentially billion US dollars at stake. And in another arbitration matter, David represented a biotech firm in a dispute concerning allegations of fraud in connection with the development of cutting-edge live-cell treatment for osteoarthritis. Having lived in Asia for nearly two decades, David is conversationally proficient in both Japanese and Korean and has acquired various other cross-cultural skills, perspectives and sensitivities that have been abundantly helpful in his work as both counsel and arbitrator. David is also a fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and active as an arbitrator. |
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Hiroshi Maeda Mori Hamada & Matsumoto |
| Key practice areas: Infrastructure & energy; project finance; PFI/PPP | |
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John Maxwell Linklaters |
| Key practice areas: Banking & finance; infrastructure; M&A; power & energy; project finance | |
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Hidetaka Mihara Nagashima Ohno & Tsunematsu |
| Key practice areas: Capital markets; corporate governance; M&A; real estate | |
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Jiro Mikami Nagashima Ohno & Tsunematsu |
| Key practice areas: Banking & finance; M&A; power & energy; project finance; real estate | |
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Kenichi Minami Nishimura & Asahi |
| Key practice areas: Bankruptcy & insolvency; restructuring & insolvency; sports practice | |
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Fuyuo Mitomi Morrison & Foerster |
| Key practice areas: Capital markets; M&A; joint ventures; corporate governance | |
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Ken Miura Mori Hamada & Matsumoto |
| Key practice areas: Finance; regulatory & regulated transactions; infrastructure & energy; M&A; private equity | |
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Mitsuko (Mimi) Miyagawa TMI Associates |
| Key practice areas: Arbitration & ADR; corporate & commercial; data protection; IP; licensing & franchising | |
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Yusuke Nakano Anderson Mori & Tomotsune |
| Key practice areas: Competition & antitrust; corporate & commercial; IP; licensing & franchising; M&A | |
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Nobuo Nakata Hibiya Nakata |
| Key practice areas: M&A (including cross-border, public and private M&A); joint venture | |
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Scott Neilson Allen & Overy |
| Key practice areas: Banking & finance; environment; infrastructure; power & energy; project finance | |
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Miho Niunoya Atsumi & Sakai |
| Key practice areas: Environment; infrastructure; power & energy; project finance; real estate | |
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Yoshikazu Noma TMI Associates |
| Key practice areas: Banking; real estate; asset & asset management; energy & projects | |
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Yoshimi Ohara Nagashima Ohno & Tsunematsu |
| Key practice areas: Dispute resolution; international arbitration & mediation; IP disputes; civil & commercial disputes | |
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Seiji Ohno Ohno & Partners |
| Key practice areas: Competition & antitrust; IP; licensing & franchising; litigation; technology, media & telecommunications | |
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Atsushi Oishi Mori Hamada & Matsumoto |
| Key practice areas: M&A; taxation; private client & wealth management | |
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Taro Omoto Mori Hamada & Matsumoto |
| Key practice areas: Aviation; banking & finance; capital markets; corporate & commercial; real estate | |
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Nobuharu Onishi Mori Hamada & Matsumoto |
| Tel: +813 5220 1860 Email: nobuharu.onishi@mhm-global.com Key practice areas: Inbound investment; outbound investment; private equity; venture capital & funds; investment funds |
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| Nobuharu Onishi is a leading partner in the asset management and investment funds practice group at Mori Hamada & Matsumoto, which consists of four partners, three counsels and 15 associates, as well as 35 paralegals. The group has been in charge of 17 out of 23 public offering deals for newly issued units or shares of foreign investment funds in Japan during 2021.
His expertise covers all aspects of investment funds and financial regulations, advising an international client base, with a particular focus on the US, the EU, Hong Kong and the Cayman Islands. Nobu has substantial experience in advising alternative investment fund managers (AIFM) and similar entities on contract drafting and regulatory compliance, including filing notifications and discussing with the Japanese authorities in connection with the admission of Japanese investors. He has advised on various innovative funds including investment funds aimed at products with less liquidity such as private equity and real estate. Also, he has advised on the formation and fund-raising of domestic and overseas private equity and venture capital funds. Moreover, he had been giving advice to the Financial Services Agency (FSA) and the Japan Securities Dealers’ Association (JSDA) when new foreign investment funds’ regulations concerning derivative transactions and diversification requirements were introduced, and he assisted JSDA to prescribe the new regulations in accordance with the Asia Region Funds Passport’s Memorandum of Co-operation that the Japanese government signed. He is a frequent speaker on investment funds at conferences and seminars. He has been recognised as a leading lawyer in the investment fund practice in Japan, ranked frequently by publications such as Legal 500 and Best Lawyers, and has been ranked as a band 1 investment funds lawyer in Chambers Asia Pacific – “Nobuharu Onishi acts for an enviable roster of asset managers, multinational corporations and top-tier financial institutions, a commentator also notes: ‘He possesses a lot of experience related to the offshore funds and also has communication skills to align with the recipients.’” |
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Masaru Ono Nishimura & Asahi |
| Key practice areas: Banking & finance; compliance; corporate & commercial; corporate governance; sustainability | |
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Yo Ota Nishimura & Asahi |
| Key practice areas: Corporate governance; defence; M&A; taxation | |
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Eriko Ozawa Mori Hamada & Matsumoto |
| Key practice areas: Real estate; banking & finance; structured finance; investment funds | |
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Gavin Raftery Baker McKenzie |
| Key practice areas: Banking & finance; e-commerce, fintech, blockchain & cryptos; private equity, venture capital & funds; project finance; sustainability | |
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Hideyuki Sakai Anderson Mori & Tomotsune |
| Key practice areas: Restructuring; insolvency & bankruptcy; dispute resolution; international litigation & cross-border disputes; M&A | |
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Yutaka Sakai Atsumi & Sakai |
| Tel: +813 5501 1055 Email: yutaka.sakai@aplaw.jp Key practice areas: Banking & finance; corporate & commercial; project finance; securitisation & structured finance; shipping |
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| Yutaka Sakai is a senior partner of Atsumi & Sakai and practices in the fields of securitisation, project finance, ship finance, aircraft leasing, syndicated loans, and environmental law. He is regularly recognised as one of Tokyo’s leading banking and finance lawyers and is a frequent speaker at seminars on renewable energy, structured finance and other financial topics. He is registered at Dai-ichi Tokyo Bar Association and speaks Japanese and English fluently.
Yutaka assists financial corporations and other stakeholders with the structuring of transactions. He has been actively involved in numerous mega solar and other renewable energy projects across Japan, and cross-border financial transactions such as ship finance and syndicated loans, etc., advising clients on legal aspects of projects and documentation. He has been named as a leading lawyer for banking and finance, projects and energy, and shipping by publications including Chambers, IFLR 1000, the Legal 500, and Asia Law Profiles. He was also listed as a “best lawyer” in the asset finance law section of the Best Lawyers in Japan 2020. |
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Reiko Sakimura Clifford Chance |
| Key practice areas: Capital markets | |
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Masanori Sato Mori Hamada & Matsumoto |
| Key practice areas: Structured finance; real estate; project finance; infrastructure & energy; M&A; private equity | |
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Tomohiro Sato Nishimura & Asahi |
| Key practice areas: Infrastructure; litigation; power & energy; project finance | |
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Theodore Seltzer Morrison & Foerster |
| Key practice areas: Real estate; inbound investment; joint ventures |
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Katsu Sengoku Nishimura & Asahi |
| Key practice areas: Aviation; banking & finance; securitisation & structured finance; shipping | |
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Hironori Shibata Anderson Mori & Tomotsune |
| Key practice areas: Banking & finance; capital markets; corporate & commercial; corporate governance; M&A | |
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Yasufumi Shiroyama Anderson Mori & Tomotsune |
| Key practice areas: IP; life sciences; TMT; competition & antitrust; dispute resolution | |
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Kenneth Siegel Morrison & Foerster |
| Key practice areas: M&A; joint ventures; outbound investment; inbound investment; corporate & commercial |
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Gary Smith Morrison & Foerster |
| Key practice areas: M&A; joint ventures; outbound investment; inbound investment |
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David Sneider Simpson Thacher |
| Key practice areas: Corporate; capital markets; corporate governance; M&A | |
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Brian Strawn White & Case |
| Key practice areas: Cross-border M&A; joint ventures; strategic alliances; reorganisations; commercial disputes | |
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Junko Suetomi Baker McKenzie |
| Tel: +81 3 6271 9900 Email: junko.suetomi@bakermckenzie.com Key practice areas: Competition & antitrust; compliance; corporate & commercial; international trade & bilateral investment treaties; restructuring & insolvency |
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| Junko Suetomi is a partner in the Baker & McKenzie Tokyo office and handles the firm’s international trade and dispute resolution practice. Suetomi focuses her practice on commercial and trade laws and regulations, WTO dispute settlement, civil and criminal litigation, antitrust law, bankruptcy law and general corporate law. She has extensive experience advising clients on issues involving trade remedy matters such as anti-dumping and countervailing duties, import restrictions, customs matters, export control and sanctions, tariff treatment and FTA/EPA applications, and public procurements, among others.
Prior to joining Baker & McKenzie, Suetomi worked in the WTO dispute settlement division of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ Economics Bureau. She has served as a court-appointed defence attorney in many criminal cases. She has authored and co-authored numerous publications related to her practice. Suetomi was the chair and now is vice-chair of the Human Rights Committee of the Tokyo Bar Association. She delivers lectures at Waseda University and the National Tax College. She is a member of the Japan Association of International Economic Law. She has served as an expert member of the Ministry of Finance’s Council on Customs, Tariff, Foreign Exchange and Other Transactions since 13 March 2019. She has been appointed bar examiner by the Minister of Justice since November 2020. She has also been appointed an expert member of the Financial Council of the Financial Services Agency since October 2021. Suetomi was admitted both in Japan and New York. She received her LLB from Tokyo University and Kyushu University and her LLM from New York University School of Law and the Cornell Law School. She has completed judicial training at the Legal Research and Institute of the Supreme Court of Japan. She also holds a Certificate in Business Analytics from the Harvard Business Analytics Program (March 2021). |
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Fumihide Sugimoto Nagashima Ohno & Tsunematsu |
| Key practice areas: Corporate governance; capital markets; banking; securitisation & structured finance; compliance | |
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Katsumasa Suzuki Mori Hamada & Matsumoto |
| Tel: +81 3 6212 8327 Email: katsumasa.suzuki@mhm-global.com Key practice areas: Capital markets; inbound investment; litigation; M&A; technology, media & telecommunications |
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| Katsumasa Suzuki has been recognised as a top-tier lawyer in capital markets, M&A and corporate crisis or governmental investigation areas, but recently he has become active in litigation and dispute matters as well, particularly those relating to activist shareholders.
He is a lawyer qualified in Japan and New York and a certified member of the Securities Analysts Association of Japan. His thorough knowledge of business, accounting and corporate finance, together with plentiful experience in various kinds of deals and legal matters, enables him to provide uniquely valuable legal and business advice to his clients. His confident, practical client-first style is highly appreciated for its strategic innovation by various clients, such as investment banks, investment funds, and listed companies in TMT and other sectors both in and outside Japan, and by US, UK, Chinese and other foreign law firms as well. He has advised on many “deal of the year” and first-ever deals, and he consistently wins challenging cases for his clients. Based on this reputation and experience, he has been selected as a leading lawyer in Japan by major publications including WWL, Chambers, Legal 500, IFLR, asialaw and Best Lawyers, and ranked as a top-ten outstanding Asia-Pacific Innovative Lawyer by the Financial Times in 2016 (as the first-ever lawyer with the honour in Japan). In 2022, the firm won the “Creating New Standard” category in Asia Pacific Innovative Lawyer Award thanks to his innovative advice in IPO deals. He publishes various articles relating to capital markets and M&A, which lead to rule making and new standards. Recently, he was selected as a member of a study group to create Japanese-SPAC organised by Tokyo Stock Exchange and has taken the initiative to introduce SPACs to Japan. Katsumasa has been a member of the Securities Law Committee of the International Bar Association since 2018 (Chair of the M&A sub-committee from 2018 to 2019 and Chair of Public Company Practice and Regulation from 2020 to present). He heads the capital markets practice group at Mori Hamada & Matsumoto and leads the group with a mission of contributing to the growth of capital markets in Japan and Asia in the best interests of the clients. |
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Reiji Takahashi Anderson Mori & Tomotsune |
| Key practice areas: Banking; structured finance; project finance; asset finance; PPP/PFI/concession | |
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Chisako Takaya Mori Hamada & Matsumoto |
| Key practice areas: Labour & employment; litigation; M&A | |
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Yuko Tamai Nagashima Ohno & Tsunematsu |
| Key practice areas: Corporate; general corporate; corporate governance; M&A | |
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Hajime Tanahashi Mori Hamada & Matsumoto |
| Key practice areas: M&A; private equity; venture capital; corporate governance; information technology | |
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Kenji Taneda Skadden |
| Key practice areas: Corporate; capital markets; M&A; equity & debt offerings | |
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Hiroyuki Tezuka Nishimura & Asahi |
| Key practice areas: Arbitration & ADR; corporate & commercial; litigation | |
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Koichi Tsujii Nakamura & Partners |
| Key practice areas: IP; international transactions; general corporate | |
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Jun Usami White & Case |
| Key practice areas: Corporate governance; joint ventures; M&A; private equity, venture capital & funds; technology, media & telecommunications | |
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Matthias Voss Allen & Overy |
| Key practice areas: Banking & finance; projects | |
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Kozo Yabe Midosuji Legal Profession Corporation |
| Key practice areas: IP litigation & contracts; civil & commercial litigation; arbitration & mediation; international business transactions & dispute settlement; M&A | |
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Setsuko Yufu Atsumi & Sakai |
| Key practice areas: Competition & antitrust; compliance; corporate governance; international trade & bilateral investment treaties; EU laws | |
