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Best Lawyers 2023

Best Lawyers 2023

Apr 14, 2022 Achievements
Anderson Mori & Tomotsune has received high evaluations in The Best Lawyers in Japan 2023 edition and many of our lawyers have been recognized in each practice areas.

■Law Firm of the Year and Lawyer of the Year

Law Firm of the Year (Japan 2023)
 Real Estate Law

Lawyer of the Year (Japan 2023)
 ・Eiichiro Nakatani （Tax Law）
・Kenichi Masuda（Private Equity, Private Funds and Venture Capital Law）
・Tetsuya Itoh（Asset Finance Law）
・Yasufumi Shiroyama (Technology Law)
・Yukiko Imazu (Labor and Employment)


■Lawyers

Antitrust / Competition Law
 Hideto Ishida, Shigeyoshi Ezaki, Yusuke Nakano, Atsushi Yamada, Vassili Moussis, Etsuko Hara, Yuhki Tanaka, Takeshi Suzuki, Yoshiharu Usuki, Kiyoko Yagami, Akira Kawamura, Yuko Suzuki
Ones to Watch: Miyu Nishimukai, Ryoma Kojima

Arbitration and Mediation
 Hiroki Wakabayashi, Kenichi Sadaka, Shinji Kusakabe, Aoi Inoue, Tsuyoshi Nagahama, Akira Kawamura
Ones to Watch: Yun Li, Masahiro Yano, Hiroto Nakajima, Yumiko Shirahase, Ryo Kikuchi, Taketo Kinoshita, Emika Sato

Asset Finance Law
 Isao Shindo, Kunihiko Morishita, Tetsuya Itoh, Tatsu Katayama

Banking and Finance Law
 Masaakira Kitazawa, Isao Shindo, Kunihiko Morishita, Hirohito Akagami, Takashi Akahane, Hiroaki Takahashi, Kazuaki Nagai, Tetsuya Itoh, Osamu Adachi, Satoshi Inoue, Mari Itoh, Taro Awataguchi, Ko Hanamizu, Takaharu Totsuka, Takehiro Shibuya, Yuki Kohmaru, Kazunari Onishi, Daisuke Tanimoto, Eiji Sakai, Wataru Ishii, Tatsu Katayama
Ones to Watch: Yu Yoshizawa

Capital Markets Law
 Isao Shindo, Harume Nakano, Tatsu Katayama, Daisuke Taga, Ryu Umezu, Hiroaki Takahashi, Hironori Shibata, Atsushi Komase, Minoru Kobayashi, Takuo Hirose, Kazuhiro Yoshii, Yasuyuki Kuroda, Hiroto Ando, Kagayaki Funakoshi, Moegi Shirakawa, Shintaro Takeoka, Koji Kawamura, Tomoyuki Oka, Shunsuke Aoki, Nobuyuki Tomotsune, Akiko Kimura, Yasuko Moriwaki
Ones to Watch: Seiya Kai, Shimpei Nohara, Aina Yamada, Nobuya Yamahashi

Corporate and M&A Law
 Masaakira Kitazawa, Hiroyasu Ueda, Yoshio Iteya, Len Matsunaga, Tsutomu Miyano, Kenichi Masuda, Hirohito Akagami, Takeshi Watanabe, Tetsuya Itoh, Shigeyoshi Ezaki, Junichi Kondo, Akira Moriwaki, Taro Tsunoda, Hiroki Kodate, Noritaka Niwano, Atsushi Yamada, Yoshimasa Dan, Hiroshige Nakagawa, Keiko Kaneko, Osamu Adachi, Michi Yamagami, Hiroshi Ishihara, Atsutoshi Maeda, Kenji Hirooka, Satoshi Inoue, Ko Wakabayashi, Koichi Saito, Yuichiro Nukada, Shigeki Tatsuno, Manabu Katsumata, Ryo Kotoura, Hitoshi Ishihara, Ryo Kohdate, Akitaka Anzai, Ryo Okochi, Jun Ishii, Tsuyoshi Nagahama, Akira Kawamura, Saneaki Ichijo, Akiko Kimura, Osamu Hirakawa, James M. Minamoto
Ones to Watch: Mariko Kimoto, Yun Li, Ran An, Kohei Karasawa, Hiroto Nakajima, Ayumi Hori, Taketo Kinoshita, Hiroto Hirai, Hiroyuki Kotaki, Daisuke Maki, Mami Morimoto

Corporate Governance & Compliance Practice
 Hiroyasu Ueda, Akira Moriwaki, Hiroki Kodate, Kazuhilo Kikawa, Hiroshi Ishihara, Takeshi Suzuki, Akira Kawamura

Criminal Defense
 Hiroki Wakabayashi

Derivatives
 Tatsu Katayama, Ken Kawai

Energy Law
 Eiji Kobayashi
Ones to Watch: Sayaka Kano

Financial Institution Regulatory Law
 Isao Shindo, Kunihiko Morishita, Osamu Adachi
Ones to Watch: Tomoaki Katayama, Shimpei Nohara, Kohji Hayakawa, Honami Sohkawa

FinTech Practice
 Ken Kawai

Information Technology Law
 Takashi Nakazaki

Insolvency and Reorganization Law
 Hiroyasu Ueda, Fujiaki Mimura, Kazuaki Nagai, Taro Awataguchi, Zentaro Nihei, Hideyuki Sakai
Ones to Watch: Takato Fukui, Mitsuo Shimada, Izumi Katayama, Miki Okuda, Hideki Nagano, Kei Takada, Tomoyuki Susukida

Insurance Law
 Kunihiko Morishita, Tomoki Debari, Naokuni Fukuda

Intellectual Property Law
 Akihito Nakamachi, Yasufumi Shiroyama, Yoshikazu Iwase, Masayuki Yamanouchi, Miki Goto
Ones to Watch: Yuta Oishi, Masaki Sakiyama, Ayana Sumi

International Business Transactions
 Yoshio Iteya, Kenjiro Yamaguchi, Akira Kawamura, Hideyuki Sakai

Investment and Investment Funds
 Harume Nakano, Kunihiko Morishita, Osamu Tanaka, Hirohito Akagami, Kazuhiro Yoshii, Akihito Miyake, Masayuki Hashimoto, Koichi Miyamoto, Nobuyuki Tomotsune, Osamu Hirakawa

Labor and Employment Law
 Hiroyuki Kanae, Kazutoshi Kakuyama, Hiroyasu Ueda, Hideki Thurgood Kanoh, Yukiko Imazu, Atsushi Yamada, Takaharu Matsumura, Nobuhito Sawasaki, Junichi Ueda, Naoki Hayata
Ones to Watch: Ryo Ko, Tomohiko Hamazaki, Shoko Okubo

Life Sciences Practice
 Yasufumi Shiroyama, Junichi Kondo
Ones to Watch: Ryo Murakami, Tomoyuki Ideno, Asako Matsuo

Litigation
 Hiroyuki Kanae, Kenichi Nakano, Hiroyasu Ueda, Eiichiro Nakatani, Fujiaki Mimura, Hiroki Wakabayashi, Kenichi Sadaka, Shinji Kusakabe, Atsushi Yamada, Takefumi Sato, Takaharu Matsumura, Kei Akagawa, Ken Kawai, Akira Kawamura, Naoki Hayata

Patent Law
 Makoto Ono

Private Equity, Private Funds and Venture Capital Law
 Masaakira Kitazawa, Kenichi Masuda, Satoshi Inoue, Yusuke Kawahara

Product Liability Litigation
 Shinji Kusakabe

Project Finance and Development Practice
 Takashi Akahane, Tetsuya Itoh, Reiji Takahashi, Norifumi Takeuchi, Koji Kawamura

Real Estate Law
 Ryu Umezu, Kenichi Nakano, Harume Nakano, Hiroaki Takahashi, Tetsuya Itoh, Minoru Kobayashi, Kaoru Sato, Naoyuki Kabata, Ken Kobayashi, Motoya Ishibashi, Tatsu Katayama

Structured Finance Law
 Isao Shindo, Tatsu Katayama, Takashi Akahane, Ryu Umezu, Hiroaki Takahashi, Kazuaki Nagai, Tetsuya Itoh, Minoru Kobayashi, Osamu Adachi
Ones to Watch: Torahiko Masutani

Tax Law
 Eiichiro Nakatani, Koji Fujita, Kei Sasaki
Ones to Watch: Natsuko Yoshida, Kohei Kajiwara, Kazuroo Shiraishi, Kei Takada

Technology Law
 Yasufumi Shiroyama, Wataru Shimizu, Masayuki Yamanouchi, Takashi Nakazaki

Trade Law
 Hiroshige Nakagawa

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