Yasuzo Takeno and ‘very seasoned lawyer’ Ken Miura head up Mori Hamada & Matsumoto’s team. Miura ‘has a strong relationship with financial regulators’ and leads many regulatory matters for the team, while Takeno has strong knowledge of investment fund law and is praised as ’one of the best lawyers in the investment fund and asset management business in Japan’. The group ‘has high quality lawyers advising the highest quality clients’, and has notable expertise assisting a high proportion of new non-Japanese funds looking to invest in Japan. Nobuharu Onishi ’has become the go-to lawyer in the practice for investment funds’, praised as ‘very commercial, hands-on and technically exceptional’.

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'The leading and dominant law firm in the arena of publicly offered offshore (non-Japanese) funds in Japan. The firm has great expertise and experience in this arena.'
'Ken Miura is a very seasoned lawyer. He has a strong relationship with financial regulators.'
'I think that the team is very useful for investment funds. Each member of the team has a deep knowledge and understanding of the investment fund business. They understand our intentions of the solutions for the problems and give us prompt replies and good advice.'
'Yasuzo Takeno is one of the best lawyers in the field of investment fund and asset management in Japan. Takeno has a profound and practical knowledge of the investment fund business in Japan and foreign countries. In addition, he has a deep knowledge and understanding of the investment fund business in Cayman Islands and Luxembourg. I think that one of his strengths is his ability to understand the clients' business well.'
'Nobuharu Onishi knows our business very well and he always brings solutions to our customers.'
'They have high quality lawyers advising the highest quality clients. They are one of the go-to firms for investment funds. They lead the market in terms of technical advice and innovative products.'
'Nobuharu Onishi has become the go-to lawyer in the practice for investment funds. Very commercial, hands-on and technically exceptional. Yasuzo Takeno and Ken Miura are the legal statesmen of the Japanese investment funds industry. Keita Nakano is one to watch.'