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  • Variety of expertise in resolving complex legal challenges

    Our lawyers are highly specialized not only in the traditional legal fields but also in the most innovative and challenging cross-border matters. We are able to address any legal challenges our clients may face by providing effective and practical advice based on our extensive experience.

  • Delivering practical real world solutions to enable our clients to achieve their business objectives

    Going beyond traditional legal advice, we are focused on providing results-based and pragmatic strategic advice. We are dedicated to providing solutions aimed at achieving the best possible outcomes for our clients, thereby enabling them to succeed in their business objectives.

  • Versatile and flexible multidisciplinary teams with integrated specializations

    We leverage our flexible organizational structure to form optimal, cross-disciplinary teams that are tailored for each matter, ensuring the highest quality of legal services by combining the specialized knowledge of our experts to address any unprecedented and highly complex legal issues. Our firm delivers nimble top-tier legal services that transcend the conventional practice-focused approach, ensuring comprehensive and innovative solutions.

OVERVIEW

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YEAR HISTORY

Our firm boasts a large number of highly specialized attorneys. We possess the capability to orchestrate agile and dynamic teams adept at tackling complex and challenging cases. As a pioneer full-service international law practice in Japan, we collaborate closely with our overseas offices and have achieved numerous accomplishments.

Group Name

Anderson Mori & Tomotsune
https://www.amt-law.com/

Address

Otemachi Park Building, 1-1-1 Otemachi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 100-8136, Japan

Established

January 1, 2005 (Anderson Mori in 1952; Tomotsune & Kimura in 1967)

Number of Professionals

692 Japanese qualified lawyers (605)Non-Japanese qualified lawyers (64)(including 14 Gaikokuho-Jimu-Bengoshi)Patent Attorney (benrishi) (19)Administrative Scrivener (Gyoseishoshi) (3)Judicial Scrivener (Shihoshoshi) (1)(as of December 1, 2024)

Office Information

We are headquartered in Tokyo with branch offices in Osaka and Nagoya. Outside Japan, we have offices in Beijing, Shanghai, Singapore, Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City, Bangkok, London and Brussels. We also have associated firms in Hong Kong and Jakarta.

※Anderson Mori & Tomotsune consists of the general partnership named Anderson Mori & Tomotsune, Anderson Mori & Tomotsune LPC, Anderson Mori & Tomotsune (Singapore) LLP, Anderson Mori & Tomotsune (Thailand) Co., Ltd., Anderson Mori & Tomotsune UK Limited and is associated with Nakamura & Associates in Hong Kong, H & A Partners in Jakarta and is part of a Joint Operation with A&Z Law Firm in Shanghai.

HISTORY
  • 1952 Mr. James Buell Anderson registered in Japan as a quasi member of the Japanese bar and opened a law office in Tokyo.
  • 1953Mr. Richard W. Rabinowitz registered in Japan as a quasi member of the Japanese bar.
  • 1955Mr. Arthur Kazuo Mori registered in Japan as a quasi member of the Japanese bar.
  • 1963Anderson Mori & Rabinowitz is established.
  • 1969Mr. Nobuyuki Tomotsune became a name partner of Nishimura Komatsu & Tomotsune.
  • 1991Anderson Mori & Rabinowitz changed its name to Anderson Mori.
  • 1998The Beijing Office of Anderson Mori is established.
  • 2001Tomotsune Kimura & Mitomi changed its name to Tomotsune & Kimura.
  • 2005 Anderson Mori & Tomotsune is established through the merger of Anderson Mori and Tomotsune & Kimura.
  • 2007 Bingham Sakai Mimura Aizawa is established through the integration of Sakai & Mimura and Bingham McCutchen LLP, and subsequent integration with New Tokyo International.
  • 2013The Nagoya, Shanghai, and Singapore Offices of Anderson Mori & Tomotsune are established.
  • 2015 Anderson Mori & Tomotsune expanded further with the addition of the core members of Bingham Sakai Mimura Aizawa and opens its HCMC Office and Jakarta Desk.
  • 2016The Bangkok Office of Anderson Mori & Tomotsune is established.
  • 2017The Osaka Office of Anderson Mori & Tomotsune is established.
  • 2019Associated firm Nakamura & Associates commenced practice in Hong Kong.
  • 2020Associated firm H & A Partners commenced practice in Jakarta.
  • 2021 Anderson Mori & Tomotsune becomes a Foreign Law Joint Enterprise, and establishes a joint operation office with A&Z Law Firm in Shanghai.
  • 2022The London and Hanoi Offices of Anderson Mori & Tomotsune are established.
  • 2024The Brussels Office of Anderson Mori & Tomotsune is established.
DIVERSITY & INCLUSION

We actively promote diversity and inclusion throughout the firm in order to create an organization in which employees with these different backgrounds are led naturally to accept one another and to value one another’s unique differences, such that each member is able to demonstrate his or her abilities in a safe working environment.

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PRO BONO

Our Commitment to Pro Bono Initiatives.

We regularly provide pro bono legal services to public interest foundations, community groups, and non-profit organizations, and contribute to bar associations, governmental agencies and educational institutions as well as other entities focusing on issues related to human rights, education, the environment, health, the arts, LGBT rights and social investment.

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