Mori Hamada‘s team is 'highly professional' and has 'the best capabilities to advise clients on global capital market transactions'. The capital markets team, led by Katsumasa Suzuki and Taro Omoto, advises on complex IPOs, global equity offerings, and euro-convertible bond offerings. Suzuki specialises in global IPOs, while Omoto focuses on complex financial instruments, such as equity and subordinated debts. The structured finance and derivatives team, led by Masanori Sato and Akira Ehira, handles traditional securitisation, derivatives, and innovative deals, where Sato has extensive experience in structured finance, while Ehira specialises in derivatives. Other key members include Toshimitsu Nemoto, who advises on various financings, such as Global IPOs, and Katsuyuki Tainaka, an expert in equity and debt transactions.
Legal 500 Editorial commentary
- Profile
Accolades
Client satisfaction
Testimonials
Collated independently by Legal 500 research team.
‘MHM is a highly professional firm with the best capability to advise clients on global capital markets transactions. Their credentials in working on most major transactions in Japan make them an ideal partner for capital markets transactions. The team is also very high quality, from partners down to the associates.’
‘We appreciate that MHM is capable of providing advice not only on traditional products in the equity capital market (such as IPOs and FOs) but also on cases with few precedents in Japan, such as rights offerings.'
'MHM excels in overall strength and has a deep knowledge of the practice area.'
‘The firm has a deep knowledge and experience in the field of real estate non-recourse, and is able to provide solutions to our problems more quickly than any other firm.'
Key clients
- Asahi Group Holdings, Ltd.
- JFE Holdings, Inc.
- TRYT Inc.
- Astroscale Holdings Inc.
- Kubota Corporation and
- Kubota Credit Corporation, U.S.A.
- Hitachi, Ltd.
- TOEI Animation Co., LTD.
- SBI Shinsei Bank, Limited
- Goldman Sachs International and Goldman Sachs Japan Co., Ltd.
Work highlights
- Advised Asahi Group Holdings, Ltd. in a secondary shares offering in overseas markets.
- Advised JFE Holdings, Inc. in the concurrent offering of shares of common stock and convertible.
- Advised Sumitomu Mitsui Trust Bank as trustee and established a trust with loan receivables from Sony Bank as trust assets, with the beneficiary rights of the trust tokenised and sold by Sony Bank through a public offering.
Lawyers
Hall of fame
The lawyers at the very top of the profession, widely known and respected by peers and clients for their longstanding involvement in market-leading work.
Leading partners
The strongest partners in their field, leading on market-leading deals and endorsed by peers and clients alike.
Toshimitsu Nemoto
Taro Omoto
Next generation partners
Junior partners with significant recognition from clients and peers in the market and key roles on multiple matters.
Practice head
Katsumasa Suzuki; Taro Omoto; Masanori Sato; Akira Ehira
Other key lawyers
Toshimitsu Nemoto; Katsuyuki Tainaka