Mori Hamada & Matsumoto Tokyo Office

Firm Overview: Mori Hamada is a leading full-service international law firm, with the largest network of offices in Japan, offices worldwide, plus an unrivalled international network, providing seamless cross-border solutions.

We provide comprehensive legal services across all areas of business activities, employing cutting-edge technology to enhance service delivery and client outcomes.

Our firm offers a client-centric approach with tailored solutions for specific client needs, ensuring optimal solutions. We are guided by a commitment to excellence as the first choice for critical and complex legal challenges.

Our mission is to create client value, foster professional growth, and positively impact the community.

Offices: Mori Hamada has offices in Osaka, Nagoya, Fukuoka, Takamatsu, Sapporo and Yokohama in addition to its Tokyo headquarters. The firm has very strong full-service local law practices in Bangkok (Chandler Mori Hamada Limited) and Yangon (Myanmar Legal Mori Hamada Limited) and it is expanding its range of local law services in Ho Chi Minh City, Hanoi, Jakarta (ATD Law in association with Mori Hamada) and Manila (Tayag Ngochua & Chu, a member firm of Mori Hamada). It also has offices in Singapore (the firm’s ASEAN hub), Shanghai and Beijing. In September 2023, the firm opened an office in New York through which it will further bolster its relationships with peer firms and clients in the US and the broader Americas, and provide them with efficient access to the firm’s Japan and ASEAN network.

Mori Hamada has strong working relationships with leading firms throughout Asia (as well as in Europe and the Americas), which enables it to work for its clients as a single, integrated team.

The Firm’s Professionals: Mori Hamada has over 740 lawyers and 680 support staff including patent attorneys, licensed tax accountants, legal assistants and translators. Its senior lawyers include highly respected practitioners and leaders from the Japanese and international legal community, including prominent law professors from the University of Tokyo, and a former Prosecutor-General from Japan’s Public Prosecutors Office. The firm also has experienced lawyers qualified in the US, England & Wales, the People’s Republic of China, Bangladesh, the Philippines, India, Malaysia, Singapore, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam and more.

Main Areas of Practice: Banking & Finance; Capital Markets; Capital Markets: J-REITs; Competition/Antitrust; Corporate/M&A; Crisis Management; Dispute Resolution (Domestic and International); Employment; Fintech; Insurance; Intellectual Property; International Trade; Investment Funds; Life Sciences; Projects & Energy; Real Estate; Restructuring/Insolvency; Structured Finance/Securitization; Tax; Technology, Media, Telecoms (TMT); and Wealth Management.