In the 2026 edition of The Best Lawyers in Japan™ by Best Lawyers® , nine lawyers have been selected as “Lawyer of the Year” in the following areas.
| Hiroki Saito | Information Technology Law |
| Gaku Ishiwata | Private Equity, Private Funds and Venture Capital Law |
| Eriko Ozawa | Real Estate Law |
| Atsunori Nobukuni | Arbitration and Mediation |
| Masakazu Masujima | FinTech Practice |
| Akira Ehira | Derivatives |
| Ryosuke Nishimoto | Antitrust / Competition Law |
| Yohsuke Higashi | Corporate and Mergers and Acquisitions Law |
| Tsuyoshi Shirakawa | Investment and Investment Funds |
Furthermore, 166 lawyers from our firm have been included in The Best Lawyers in Japan™.
Antitrust / Competition Law
Kenji Ito, Hideki Utsunomiya, Toru Yamada, Aruto Kagami, Ryosuke Nishimoto, Tomoya Fujita, Yusuke Takamiya, Aiko Mizuguchi, Saori Takekoshi, Masaki Kakimoto
Arbitration and Mediation
Mugi Sekido, Atsunori Nobukuni, Tetsushi Kamimura, Shinichiro Yokota, Yoshinori Tatsuno, Ryo Kawabata, Daniel Allen
Asset Finance Law
Yasuhiko Fujitsu, Masahito Saeki, Yusuke Murakami
Banking and Finance Law
Masanori Sato, Hideki Matsui, Akira Marumo, Toshifumi Ueda, Eriko Ozawa, Takahiro Kobayashi, Naoki Ishikawa, Akiko Sueoka, Daisuke Oda, Hiroki Aoyama, Akira Ehira, Shigeki Okatani, Mihoko Shima, Hiroki Kishi, Yoshihito Kuramochi, Yusuke Suehiro, Yusuke Murakami, Kei Shirakawa, Yuki Matsuda, Sayako Chujo
Capital Markets Law
Kensuke Ambe, Yasuhiko Fujitsu, Katsumasa Suzuki, Taro Omoto, Akira Ehira, Masakazu Kumagai, Toshimitsu Nemoto, Katsuyuki Tainaka, Suguru Miyata, Masayuki Ishibashi, Takafumi Goto, Risa Morita
Corporate and Mergers and Acquisitions Law
Satoshi Kawai, Ko Fujita, Hideki Matsui, Soichiro Fujiwara, Hajime Tanahashi, Stan Yukevich, Shigehiko Ishimoto, Tomohiro Tsuchiya, Takuya Eguchi, Seiichi Okazaki, Chisako Takaya, Gaku Ishiwata, Atsushi Oishi, Katsumasa Suzuki, Matt Takeshi Komatsu, Koji Toshima, Yo Uraoka, Takayuki Kihira, Yoshihiro Kojima, Rintaro Shinohara, Atsunori Nobukuni, Seiji Akimoto, Akira Ehira, Shuhei Kubota, Shuhei Uchida, Kenichi Sekiguchi, Munetaka Dai, Akira Matsushita, Atsushi Inoue, Yohsuke Higashi, Tomoya Fujita, Yusuke Matsui, Daiki Ishikawa, Norihito Sato, Ryo Chikasawa, Hideki Ben, Norimitsu Mori, Mikito Ishida, Yasutaka Tokuda, Reiya Nakano, Kentaro Matsumura, Nobuhiko Suzuki, Hiroki Habuka, Shimpei Ochi, Takaaki Okano
Corporate Governance and Compliance Practice
Hideki Matsui, Takashi Miyatani, Minoru Sawaguchi, Yusuke Ishii, Atsuko Taishido, Shuhei Uchida, Takeshi Okuyama, Hideaki Umetsu, Munetaka Dai, Kohei Morita, Shiho Ono, Akira Matsushita, Kunihiro Watanabe, Hiroshi Yamauchi, Yuta Kawashima, Ryo Chikasawa, Hideki Ben, Kazuo Yoshida, Hiromasa Arai, Takamasa Horio, Noriaki Wakabayashi, Koki Kanemura, Mizuho Yoshida, Ryosuke Okuda
Criminal Defense
Yoichi Okuda
Derivatives
Masanori Sato, Toshifumi Ueda, Akira Ehira
Energy Law
Takahiro Kobayashi, Shigeki Okatani, Mihoko Shima, Yusuke Suehiro, Yusuke Murakami, Kei Shirakawa
Financial Institution Regulatory Law
Hideki Matsui, Daisuke Oda, Akira Ehira, Takane Hori, Takanori Ishikawa, Takanori Shinohara
Fintech Practice
Masakazu Masujima, Takane Hori, Masafumi Masuda, Ryosuke Onobori
Information Technology Law
Hiroki Saito, Akira Marumo, Koichiro Iida, Hiromi Hayashi, Atsushi Okada, Masafumi Masuda, Daisuke Tsuta
Insolvency and Reorganization Law
Soichiro Fujiwara, Airo Inoue, Ryota Yamasaki, Takahiro Inou, Yusuke Matsui, Dai Katagiri, Wataru Ishida, Takaaki Kanayama, Yusuke Iino
Insurance Law
Masakazu Masujima, Kazuo Yoshida
Intellectual Property Law
Takuya Iizuka, Hiroki Saito, Tsunemichi Yokoyama, Yutaka Miyoshi, Koichiro Iida, Yoshifumi Onodera, Atsushi Okada, Tetsushi Kamimura
International Arbitration
Shinichiro Yokota, Seri Takahashi, Daniel Allen
International Business Transactions
Tomohiro Tsuchiya, Takuya Eguchi, Takeshi Mukawa, Matt Takeshi Komatsu, Yoshihiro Kojima, Hideaki Umetsu, Kenichi Sekiguchi, Yusuke Takamiya
Investment and Investment Funds
Ken Miura, Fumiharu Hiromoto, Yasuhiko Fujitsu, Taro Omoto, Nobuharu (Nobu) Onishi, Naohisa Iimura, Tsuyoshi Shirakawa, Keita Nakano
Labor and Employment Law
Chisako Takaya, Taichi Arai, Yoshikazu Abe, Ryoko Akizuki
Litigation
Yoichi Okuda, Naosuke Ichikawa, Kazuhiro Kanamaru, Hideki Matsui, Soichiro Fujiwara, Takashi Miyatani, Minoru Sawaguchi, Koichiro Iida, Mugi Sekido, Masaru Arai, Sachiko Omuro, Shinichiro Yokota, Shiho Ono, Kunihiro Watanabe, Yuta Kawashima, Kenta Kawabata, Yoshinori Tatsuno
Media and Entertainment Law
Hiroki Saito, Tsunemichi Yokoyama, Hiromi Hayashi, Tetsushi Kamimura
Patent Law
Takuya Iizuka, Yoshifumi Onodera
Privacy and Data Security Law
Koichiro Iida, Atsushi Okada, Hiroyuki Tanaka, Noboru Kitayama
Private Equity, Private Funds and Venture Capital Law
Ken Miura, Soichiro Fujiwara, Hajime Tanahashi, Stan Yukevich, Gaku Ishiwata, Atsushi Oishi, Mitsue Tanaka, Koji Toshima, Takayuki Kihira, Rintaro Shinohara, Masakazu Masujima, Shuhei Kubota, Shuhei Uchida, Hirokazu Hayashi, Kenichi Sekiguchi, Shimpei Ochi, Takeshi Fukuda, Yuma Ito
Product Liability Litigation
Mugi Sekido, Shiho Ono
Project Finance and Development Practice
Takahiro Kobayashi, Takeshi Mukawa, Naoki Ishikawa, Shigeki Okatani, Yusuke Suehiro, Yusuke Murakami, Keigo Kubo
Real Estate Law
Masanori Sato, Toshifumi Ueda, Eriko Ozawa, Takeshi Mukawa, Naoki Ishikawa, Hiroki Aoyama, Ryutaro Kawamura, Susumu Hanawa, Masahito Saeki, Sonoko Amano, Yusuke Nakajima, Satoru Hasumoto, Fuyuki Uchitsu
Sports Law
Yutaka Miyoshi
Structured Finance Law
Masanori Sato, Hideki Matsui, Noboru Suwa, Toshifumi Ueda, Eriko Ozawa, Takahiro Kobayashi, Takeshi Mukawa, Naoki Ishikawa, Hiroki Aoyama, Akira Ehira, Shigeki Okatani, Yusuke Murakami, Satoru Hasumoto, Takahiro Sato
Tax Law
Kazuhiro Kanamaru, Atsushi Oishi, Makoto Sakai, Hiroshi Oyama, Hiroyuki Kurihara, Yoshiko Yamakawa
Technology Law
Hiroyuki Tanaka
Telecommunications Law
Soichiro Fujiwara, Akira Marumo, Tsunemichi Yokoyama, Koichiro Iida, Hiromi Hayashi, Yohei Koyama
Trade Law
Shigehiko Ishimoto, Takuya Eguchi, Hideaki Umetsu, Yusuke Takamiya
Transportation Law
Norihito Sato
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