The Best Lawyers in Japan™ (2027 edition)

In the 2027 edition of The Best Lawyers in Japan™ by Best Lawyers^®, nine lawyers have been selected as "Lawyer of the Year" in the following areas.

Furthermore, 185 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, Daniel Allen, Ryo Kawabata

Asset Finance Law
Yasuhiko Fujitsu, Masahito Saeki, Yusuke Murakami

Aviation Law
Masayuki Aoyama

Banking and Finance Law
Masanori Sato, Hideki Matsui, Akira Marumo, Toshifumi Ueda, Eriko Ozawa, Takahiro Kobayashi, Naoki Ishikawa, Daisuke Oda, Hiroki Aoyama, Akira Ehira, Shigeki Okatani, Mihoko Shima, Hiroki Kishi, Yoshihito Kuramochi, Yusuke Suehiro, Yusuke Murakami, Kei Shirakawa, Yuki Matsuda, Sayako Chujo, Shuhei Takaishi

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, Hiroko Yotsumoto, 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, Kanta Suzuki, Ryo Chikasawa, Hideki Ben, Norimitsu Mori, Mikito Ishida, Yasutaka Tokuda, Reiya Nakano, Kentaro Matsumura, Shunsuke Imura, Nobuhiko Suzuki, Shimpei Ochi, Hiroko Kasama, Masaaki Hirota, Yuma Adachi, Takahiro Iijima, Takaaki Okano, Kensuke Sakajiri, 
Shuntaro Shirai

Corporate Governance and Compliance Practice
Hideki Matsui, Takashi Miyatani, Minoru Sawaguchi, Yusuke Ishii, Atsuko Taishido, Shuhei Uchida, Takeshi Okuyama, Hideaki Roy Umetsu, Munetaka Dai, Kohei Morita, Shiho Ono, Akira Matsushita, Kunihiro Watanabe, Hiroshi Yamauchi, Yuta Kawashima, Ryo Chikasawa, Hideki Ben, Suguru Miyata, Kazuo Yoshida, Hiromasa Arai, Takamasa Horio, Noriaki Wakabayashi, Tomoaki Kutami, Kazuhito Imaizumi, Tomonori Ogawa, Koki Kanemura, Takeshi Fukuda, Aritsune Miyoda, Mizuho Yoshida, Ryosuke Okuda, Chihiro Tsukada, Masanori Nakao

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, Hiroto Hayashi

Financial Institution Regulatory Law
Hideki Matsui, Daisuke Oda, Akira Ehira, Takane Hori, Takanori Ishikawa, Takanori Shinohara, Masaki Yukawa

FinTech Practice
Masakazu Masujima, Takane Hori, Masafumi Masuda, Takanori Shinohara, Satoshi Okano, 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, Shiho Ono, Seri Takahashi, Daniel Allen

International Business Transactions
Shigehiko Ishimoto, Tomohiro Tsuchiya, Takuya Eguchi, Takeshi Mukawa, Matt Takeshi Komatsu, Yoshihiro Kojima, Hideaki Roy Umetsu, Kenichi Sekiguchi, Yusuke Takamiya

Investment and Investment Funds
Ken Miura, Fumiharu Hiromoto, Yasuhiko Fujitsu, Taro Omoto, Nobuharu (Nobu) Onishi, Tsuyoshi Shirakawa, Keita Nakano

Labor and Employment Law
Chisako Takaya, Taichi Arai, Yoshikazu Abe, Mariko Morita, 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, Tomoaki Kutami

Media and Entertainment Law
Hiroki Saito, Tsunemichi Yokoyama, Hiromi Hayashi, Tetsushi Kamimura

Patent Law
Takuya Iizuka, Yoshifumi Onodera

Privacy and Data Security Law
Hiroki Saito, Koichiro Iida, Atsushi Okada, Hiroyuki Tanaka, Masaki Yukawa, Daisuke Tsuta, 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 Adachi, 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

Real Estate Law
Masanori Sato, Toshifumi Ueda, Eriko Ozawa, Takeshi Mukawa, Naoki Ishikawa, Hiroki Aoyama, Ryutaro Kawamura, Masahito Saeki, Sonoko Amano, Yusuke Nakajima, Satoru Hasumoto, Hirohiko Tanaka, 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, Ayako Nakamura, Hiroto Hayashi

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 Roy Umetsu, Yusuke Takamiya, Kunio Miyaoka

Transportation Law
Norihito Sato