In the 2025 edition of The Best Lawyers in Japan™ by Best Lawyers®, five lawyers have been selected as "Lawyer of the Year" in the following areas.
- Hajime Tanahashi - Private Equity, Private Funds and Venture Capital Law
- Takahiro Kobayashi - Energy Law
- Takane Hori - FinTech Practice
- Sachiko Omuro - Litigation
- Hiroyuki Tanaka - Privacy and Data Security Law
Furthermore, 157 lawyers from our firm have been included in The Best Lawyers in Japan™, and 42 lawyers from our firm have been included in Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch in Japan™.
Best Lawyers
Antitrust / Competition Law
- Kenji Ito
- Hideki Utsunomiya
- Aruto Kagami
- Ryosuke Nishimoto
- Tomoya Fujita
- Yusuke Takamiya
- Aiko Mizuguchi
- Saori Takekoshi
- Masaki Kakimoto
Arbitration and Mediation
Asset Finance Law
Banking and Finance Law
Capital Markets Law
Corporate and Mergers and Acquisitions Law
- Satoshi Kawai
- Ko Fujita
- Hideki Matsui
- Soichiro Fujiwara
- Hajime Tanahashi
- Shigehiko Ishimoto
- Tomohiro Tsuchiya
- Takuya Eguchi
- Seiichi Okazaki
- Chisako Takaya
- Gaku Ishiwata
- Atsushi Oishi
- Katsumasa Suzuki
- Takeshi Komatsu
- Koji Toshima
- Yo Uraoka
- Takayuki Kihira
- Yoshihiro Kojima
- Rintaro Shinohara
- Atsunori Nobukuni
- Seiji Akimoto
- Akira Ehira
- Shuhei Kubota
- Shuhei Uchida
- Hirokazu Hayashi
- Kenichi Sekiguchi
- Munetaka Dai
- Akira Matsushita
- Atsushi Inoue
- Tetsu Takeuchi
- 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
Criminal Defense
Derivatives
Energy Law
Financial Institution Regulatory Law
Fintech Practice
Information Technology Law
Insolvency and Reorganization Law
- Soichiro Fujiwara
- Airo Inoue
- Ryota Yamasaki
- Takahiro Inou
- Yusuke Matsui
- Dai Katagiri
- Wataru Ishida
- Takaaki Kanayama
- Yusuke Iino
Insurance Law
Intellectual Property Law
- Takuya Iizuka
- Hiroki Saito
- Tsunemichi Yokoyama
- Yutaka Miyoshi
- Koichiro Iida
- Yoshifumi Onodera
- Atsushi Okada
- Tetsushi Kamimura
International Arbitration
International Business Transactions
Investment and Investment Funds
Labor and Employment Law
Litigation
Media and Entertainment Law
Patent Law
Privacy and Data Security Law
Private Equity, Private Funds and Venture Capital Law
- Yasuzo Takeno
- Ken Miura
- Soichiro Fujiwara
- Hajime Tanahashi
- Gaku Ishiwata
- Atsushi Oishi
- Mitsue Tanaka
- Takayuki Kihira
- Rintaro Shinohara
- Masakazu Masujima
- Shuhei Kubota
- Shuhei Uchida
- Hirokazu Hayashi
- Kenichi Sekiguchi
- Shimpei Ochi
- Takeshi Fukuda
Product Liability Litigation
Project Finance and Development Practice
Real Estate Law
- Masanori Sato
- Toshifumi Ueda
- Eriko Ozawa
- Takeshi Mukawa
- Naoki Ishikawa
- Hiroki Aoyama
- Ryutaro Kawamura
- Susumu Hanawa
- Masahito Saeki
- Yusuke Nakajima
- Satoru Hasumoto
- Hironobu Noma
Sports Law
Structured Finance Law
Tax Law
Technology Law
Telecommunications Law
Trade Law
Transportation Law
Ones to Watch
Arbitration and Mediation
Banking and Finance Law
Capital Markets Law
Corporate and Mergers and Acquisitions Law
Energy Law
Financial Institution Regulatory Law
Information Technology Law
Insolvency and Reorganization Law
Intellectual Property Law (Non-Patent)
International Business Transactions
Labor and Employment Law
Litigation
Maritime and Shipping Law
Personal Injury and Civil Litigation
Privacy and Data Security Law
Private Equity, Private Funds and Venture Capital Law
Project Finance and Development Practice
Real Estate Law
Structured Finance Law
People
Yoichi Okuda
Naosuke Ichikawa
Yasuzo Takeno
Kazuhiro Kanamaru
Satoshi Kawai
Takuya Iizuka
Hiroki Saito
Masanori Sato
Ko Fujita
Hideki Matsui
Ken Miura
Soichiro Fujiwara
Takashi Miyatani
Noboru Suwa
Hajime Tanahashi
Minoru Sawaguchi
Akira Marumo
Tsunemichi Yokoyama
Shigehiko Ishimoto
Tomohiro Tsuchiya
Kensuke Ambe
Takuya Eguchi
Seiichi Okazaki
Chisako Takaya
Yutaka Miyoshi
Koichiro Iida
Toshifumi Ueda
Gaku Ishiwata
Kenji Ito
Fumiharu Hiromoto
Atsushi Oishi
Eriko Ozawa
Takahiro Kobayashi
Mugi Sekido
Takeshi Mukawa
Masaru Arai
Yasuhiko Fujitsu
Naoki Ishikawa
Yoshifumi Onodera
Akiko Sueoka
Katsumasa Suzuki
Yusuke Ishii
Airo Inoue
Hideki Utsunomiya
Daisuke Oda
Taro Omoto
Matt Takeshi Komatsu
Mitsue Tanaka
Koji Toshima
Ryota Yamasaki
Yo Uraoka
Takayuki Kihira
Yoshihiro Kojima
Rintaro Shinohara
Atsuko Taishido
Atsunori Nobukuni
Hiromi Hayashi
Masakazu Masujima
Hiroko Yotsumoto
Hiroki Aoyama
Seiji Akimoto
Akira Ehira
Atsushi Okada
Aruto Kagami
Tetsushi Kamimura
Shuhei Kubota
Yohei Koyama
Takane Hori
Taichi Arai
Takanori Ishikawa
Takahiro Inou
Shuhei Uchida
Nobuharu (Nobu) Onishi
Shigeki Okatani
Takeshi Okuyama
Mihoko Shima
Hideaki Umetsu
Sachiko Omuro
Ryutaro Kawamura
Makoto Sakai
Susumu Hanawa
Hirokazu Hayashi
Shinichiro Yokota
Yoshikazu Abe
Masakazu Kumagai
Masahito Saeki
Kenichi Sekiguchi
Munetaka Dai
Toshimitsu Nemoto
Kohei Morita
Shiho Ono
Akira Matsushita
Kunihiro Watanabe
Atsushi Inoue
Hiroshi Oyama
Hiroki Kishi
Yoshihito Kuramochi
Yusuke Suehiro
Katsuyuki Tainaka
Tetsu Takeuchi
Hiroyuki Tanaka
Ryosuke Nishimoto
Yohsuke Higashi
Tomoya Fujita
Yusuke Matsui
Yusuke Murakami
Hiroshi Yamauchi
Daiki Ishikawa
Yuta Kawashima
Kenta Kawabata
Hiroyuki Kurihara
Norihito Sato
Tsuyoshi Shirakawa
Yusuke Takamiya
Ryo Chikasawa
Yusuke Nakajima
Satoru Hasumoto
Hideki Ben
Masafumi Masuda
Aiko Mizuguchi
Suguru Miyata
Norimitsu Mori
Kazuo Yoshida
Hiromasa Arai
Dai Katagiri
Takanori Shinohara
Yoshinori Tatsuno
Hironobu Noma
Takamasa Horio
Noriaki Wakabayashi
Mikito Ishida
Masayuki Ishibashi
Kei Shirakawa
Saori Takekoshi
Wataru Ishida
Takaaki Kanayama
Noboru Kitayama
Seri Takahashi
Yasutaka Tokuda
Reiya Nakano
Takafumi Goto
Nobuhiko Suzuki
Keita Nakano
Masaki Kakimoto
Koki Kanemura
Takeshi Fukuda
Daniel Allen
Ayako Ikeda
Daisuke Tsuta
Kentaro Matsumura
Colin Trehearne
Naohisa Iimura
Yusuke Iino
Sayako Chujo
Hiroki Habuka
Shimpei Ochi
Ryosuke Onobori
Takaaki Okano
Ayaka Isaji
Kensuke Oki
Akiko Okanari
Satoshi Ogawa
Ryo Onaka
Jun Kimura
Takahiro Kobayashi
Yuki Sameshima
Tasuku Suenaga
Fumiya Sunose
Go Chihara
Shinichiro Nakano
Masataka Hayano
Keiichi Bando
Takaaki Higuchi
Kenta Minamitani
Ryo Yoshino
Kohei Wachi
Jun Akimoto
Shingo Ushirogata
Shintaro Okawa
Yuka Ota
Shutaro Kuwahara
Kento Hirata
Yusuke Maeyama
Midori Yamaguchi
Shun Watanabe
Jun Umezawa
Yuki Kanematsu
Hirotada Kobayashi
Seiya Takao
Saki Teraoka
Max Yuki Tominaga
Shinya Mizumoto
Kotaro Minamida
Tomohiro Oka
Kazuki Sawa
Hiroki Yamaguchi
Takeru Kondo
Kota Inatsu
Yusuke Watanabe
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