Best Lawyers in Japan 2026 Awards
2025.04.22
Our lawyers were selected as "Lawyer of the Year" in each practice area in The Best Lawyers in Japan 2026 edition.
＜Lawyer of the Year＞
● Insolvency and Reorganization Law Tomohiro Kitano
● International Business Transactions Shiro Kuniya
● Litigation Tadashi Ishikawa
● Tax Law Ryosuke Kono
Also many of our lawyers were highly acclaimed in the following practice areas:
＜2026 Best Lawyers＞
● Antitrust/Competition Law
Tadashi Ishikawa
Tetsuya Nagasawa
Takashi Ishii
Kagenori Sako
Yuichi Oda
Shohei Furukawa
● Banking and Finance Law
Kayoko Naito
Ryoji Fukumori
● Corporate and M&A Law
Shiro Kuniya
Kayoko Naito
Ryoji Fukumori
Hirohiko Ikeda
Michiko Kanai
Yasuhiro Uozumi
Yoichi Wakasugi
Hidehiro Utsumi
Norihiro Sekiguchi
Seigo Takehira
Keita Moriwaki
Yuichi Urata
● Corporate Governance & Compliance Practice
Hirohiko Ikeda
Norihiro Sekiguchi
Kumpei Ohashi
Takuro Yamaguchi
● Criminal Defense
Tetsuya Nagasawa
Kumpei Ohashi
● Insolvency and Reorganization Law
Makoto Miyazaki
Ryoji Fukumori
Masaki Nogami
Yoichi Wakasugi
Hidehiro Utsumi
Hiroshi Murakami
Takayuki Maruyama
Naoki Kondo
Tomohiro Kitano
So Miyamoto
● Insurance Law
Motoi Shimadera
● Intellectual Property Law
Shiro Kuniya
Shigetoshi Hirano
Takamitsu Shigetomi
Toshiya Furusho
Yohei Hasebe
● International Business Transactions
Tadashi Ishikawa
Shiro Kuniya
Kayoko Naito
Hirohiko Ikeda
Teppei Mogi
Norihiro Sekiguchi
Hajime Taniuchi
Yuri Kawashima
Ryo Matsumoto
● Labor and Employment Law
Daisuke Mure
● Litigation
Tadashi Ishikawa
Shiro Kuniya
Ryoji Fukumori
Hirohiko Ikeda
Teppei Mogi
Shigetoshi Hirano
Hideaki Takayasu
Takashi Hirose
● Medical Malpractice Litigation
Teppei Mogi
● Private Equity, Private Funds and Venture Capital Law
Kayoko Naito
Norihiro Sekiguchi
Hiroshi Kuramochi
● Tax Law
Hidehiro Utsumi
Ryosuke Kono
● Trade Law
Shiro Kuniya
Ones to Watch Recipients
● Corporate and M&A Law
Seiro Hirata
Kochi Hashimoto
● Insurance Law
Seiro Hirata
