Mori Hamada & Matsumoto has been awarded a top ranking in asialaw 2024 as one of the “Outstanding” firms in Japan due to its impressive reputation in all of the practice areas and industry sectors listed below. The firm’s lawyers have also received prestigious rankings in the practice areas in Japan shown below.

Our offices in Thailand (Chandler MHM Limited),  Vietnam, Indonesia (ATD Law in association with Mori Hamada & Matsumoto), the Philippines (Tayag Ngochua & Chu, a member firm of Mori Hamada & Matsumoto) and their lawyers have also received high accolades in their respective jurisdictions.

For more information, please refer to the asialaw website.

Practice area

・Banking and finance (Outstanding)
・Capital markets (Outstanding)
・Competition/antitrust (Outstanding)
・Construction (Outstanding)
・Corporate and M&A (Outstanding)
・Dispute resolution (Outstanding)
・Intellectual property (Highly recommended)
・Investment funds (Outstanding)
・Labour and employment (Outstanding)
・Private equity (Highly recommended)
・Regulatory (Outstanding)
・Restructuring and insolvency (Outstanding)
・Tax (Outstanding)

Industry sector

・Banking and financial services (Outstanding)
・Consumer goods and services (Outstanding)
・Energy (Outstanding)
・Infrastructure (Highly recommended)
・Insurance (Highly recommended)
・Media and entertainment (Highly recommended)
・Pharmaceuticals and life sciences (Recommended)
・Real estate (Outstanding)
・Technology and telecommunications (Recommended)

Practice area

・Banking and finance (Outstanding)
・Capital markets (Recommended)
・Construction (Highly recommended)
・Corporate and M&A (Outstanding)
・Dispute resolution (Highly recommended)
・Labour and employment (Highly recommended)
・Restructuring and insolvency (Highly recommended)

Industry sector

・Aviation and shipping (Highly recommended)
・Banking and financial services (Outstanding)
・Consumer goods and services (Highly recommended)
・Energy (Outstanding)
・Industrials and manufacturing (Highly recommended)
・Infrastructure (Outstanding)
・Insurance (Highly recommended）
・Real estate (Highly recommended)
・Technology and telecommunications (Highly recommended) ​

Practice area

・Banking and finance
 Elite practitioner: Masanori Sato
Distinguished practitioner: Naoki Ishikawa, Hiroki Aoyama
Notable practitioner: Shigeki Okatani, Yusuke Suehiro

・Capital markets
Elite practitioner: Katsumasa Suzuki
Distinguished practitioner: Taro Omoto, Toshimitsu Nemoto
Notable practitioner: Yasuhiko Fujitsu
Rising star: Masahito Saeki

・Competition/antitrust
Distinguished practitioner: Kenji Ito

・Corporate and M&A
Elite practitioner: Gaku Ishiwata
Distinguished practitioner: Hajime Tanahashi, Atsushi Oishi
Notable practitioner: Tomohiro Tsuchiya, Koji Toshima, Akira Matsushita

・Dispute resolution
Distinguished practitioner: Mugi Sekido
Rising star: Daniel Allen

・Energy
Distinguished practitioner: Takahiro Kobayashi

・Infrastructure
Elite practitioner: Hiroshi Maeda

・Intellectual property
Distinguished practitioner: Yutaka Miyoshi
Notable practitioner: Atsushi Okada

・Investment funds
Elite practitioner: Ken Miura
Distinguished practitioner: Yasuzo Takeno, Nobuharu Onishi

・Labour and employment
Distinguished practitioner: Chisako Takaya

・Private equity
Elite practitioner: Gaku Ishiwata
Distinguished practitioner: Hajime Tanahashi

・Real estate
Distinguished practitioner: Eriko Ozawa, Satoru Hasumoto
Rising star: Fuyuki Uchitsu

・Regulatory
Rising star: Hiroshi Yamauchi, Takamasa Horio

・Restructuring and insolvency
Elite practitioner: Soichiro Fujiwara
Notable practitioner: Takahiro Inou

・Tax
Distinguished practitioner: Atsushi Oishi

Industry sector

・Energy
Notable practitioner: Shigeki Okatani

・Real estate
Distinguished practitioner: Taro Omoto
Notable practitioner: Yasuhiko Fujitsu
Rising star: Masahito Saeki

・Pharmaceuticals and life sciences
Rising star: Takamasa Horio

Practice area

・Banking and finance
Elite practitioner: Jessada Sawatdipong
Distinguished practitioner: Joseph Tisuthiwongse
Notable practitioner: Supattra Sathapornnanon
Rising star: Sarunporn Chaianant

・Capital markets
Distinguished practitioner: Doungporn Prasertsomsuk

・Corporate and M&A 
Distinguished practitioner: Arkrapol Pichedvanichok
Notable practitioner: Seiji Akimoto

・Dispute resolution
Notable practitioner: Waree Shinsirikul
Rising star: Nathee Silacharoen

・Real estate
Distinguished practitioner: Tananan Thammakiat

Industry sector

・Energy
Elite practitioner: Jessada Sawatdipong
Distinguished practitioner: Joseph Tisuthiwongse
Notable practitioner: Supattra Sathapornnanon
Rising star: Sarunporn Chaianant

Practice area

・Corporate and M&A
Notable practitioner: Ha Thi Dung
Rising star: Kenji Nishio

Practice area

・Banking and finance
Notable practitioner: Abadi Tisnadisastra

Practice area

・Competition/antitrust
Notable practitioner: Carlos Martin Tayag