Mori Hamada has been ranked in the top tier of recommended law firms for all categories in Japan by IFLR1000 2025. In addition, our firm’s lawyers have received prestigious rankings in the practice areas listed below.
Our offices in Singapore, Thailand (Chandler Mori Hamada), Vietnam, Indonesia (ATD Law in association with Mori Hamada) and the Philippines (Tayag Ngochua & Chu, a member firm of Mori Hamada) and their lawyers have also received high accolades in their respective jurisdictions.
For more information, please refer to the IFLR1000 website.
Practice areas
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
• Banking and finance (Tier 4)
• M&A (Tier 4)
• Projects (Notable)
INDONESIA
• Banking (Notable)
• M&A (Notable)
THE PHILIPPINES
• M&A (Notable)
Lawyers
JAPAN
・Banking
Market leader: Masanori Sato
Highly regarded: Noboru Suwa, Eriko Ozawa, Takeshi Mukawa, Hiroki Aoyama, Toshimitsu Nemoto
Expert consultant: Hiroshi Maeda
Notable practitioner: Akira Marumo, Toshifumi Ueda
・Banking and finance
Highly regarded: 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, Kei Shirakawa, Yuki Matsuda
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, Stan Yukevich, 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, Stan Yukevich, 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, Kei Shirakawa
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: Doungporn Prasertsomsuk, Joseph Tisuthiwongse, Supattra Sathapornnanon
・Banking and finance
Notable practitioner: Sarunporn Chaianant
Rising star partner: Tip-apa Limvichai
・Capital markets
Highly regarded: Arkrapol Pichedvanichok, Doungporn Prasertsomsuk, Tananan Thammakiat
・Capital markets: Debt
Rising star: Pradchayada Maneeratanapron
・Energy and infrastructure
Market leader: Joseph Tisuthiwongse
・M&A
Highly regarded: Arkrapol Pichedvanichok, Doungporn Prasertsomsuk
Notable practitioner: Panupan Udomsuvannakul
・Project development
Highly regarded: Joseph Tisuthiwongse
・Project finance
Market leader: Jessada Sawatdipong
Highly regarded: Joseph Tisuthiwongse, Supattra Sathapornnanon
・Restructuring and insolvency
Notable practitioner: Supalerk Rugsarigorn
Rising star partner: Nathee Silacharoen, Tawatchai Boonmayapan
VIETNAM
・M&A
Notable practitioner: Kenji Nishio, Ha Thi Dung
INDONESIA
・Banking
Notable practitioner: Alfa Setiawati
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