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.

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)

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：Energy
　Highly regarded: Takeshi Mukawa
　Expert consultant：Hiroshi Maeda

・Project development
　Market leader：Takahiro Kobayashi　
　​Highly regarded: Shigeki Okatani

・Project development: Infrastructure
　​Highly regarded: Takeshi Mukawa
　Expert consultant：Hiroshi Maeda

・Project finance
　Market leader：Takahiro Kobayashi
　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