High evaluation received in the 2027 Edition of The Best Lawyers in Japan™ and Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch in Japan™

151 lawyers from Nagashima Ohno & Tsunematsu (“Nagashima”) were included in the 2027 Edition of The Best Lawyers in Japan™.

In addition, the following eight lawyers were selected as “Lawyer of the Year” in each practice area.

Jiro Mikami: Banking and Finance Law
Fumihide Sugimoto: Financial Institution Regulatory Law
Yoshimi Ohara: International Arbitration
Motohisa Nakagawa: International Business Transactions
Kenji Utsumi: Real Estate Law
Satoshi Inoue: Structured Finance Law
Shigeki Minami: Tax Law
Keiji Tonomura: Technology Law

Furthermore, Yuki Tsuboi and Rintaro Oishi were listed in the 2027 edition of Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch in Japan™.

Best Lawyers in Japan

Antitrust / Competition Law
Kaoru Hattori, Koki Yanagisawa, Yoshitoshi Imoto, Yusuke Kaeriyama, Ryohei Tanaka, Tsuyoshi Isshiki, Daisuke Fukamizu, Satoshi Ogawa, Nobuaki Ito

Arbitration and Mediation
Yoshimi Ohara, Hironobu Tsukamoto, Naoki Iguchi, Oki Mori, Kaori Sugimoto, Yoshihiro Takatori

Asset Finance Law
Satoshi Inoue, Naohiro Nishimura, Motohiro Yanagawa, Peter Bungate

Banking and Finance Law
Fumihide Sugimoto, Takao Higuchi, Satoshi Inoue, Shinichi Matsui, Hiroyuki Ishizuka, Kei Asatsuma, Takayuki Matsunaga, Jiro Mikami, Motohiro Yanagawa, Taku Umezawa, Terukazu Katsuyama, Tsutomu Kobayashi, Kazuya Ogawa, Hironori Matsuo, Yoshifumi Shimoda, Tomohiro Koyasu, Nobuaki Kobayashi, Minoru Ota

Capital Markets Law
Fumihide Sugimoto, Satoshi Inoue, Miyuki Ishiguro, Hiroyuki Ishizuka, Masaki Konishi, Masatsura Kadota, Shinichi Araki, Atsushi Yamashita, Kazuya Ogawa, Sosuke Kimura, Motoki Saito, Takashi Itokawa, Kyohei Mizukoshi, Yuichi Miyashita

Construction Law
Naoki Iguchi

Corporate and Mergers and Acquisitions Law
Soichiro Uno, Seiichiro Umeno, Hiroki Inoue, Yoshimi Ohara, Hiroshi Mitoma, Kenji Utsumi, Yuko Tamai, Kazuo Mizutani, Kei Asatsuma, Tomohiko Iwasaki, Kayo Takigawa, Tsuyoshi Shimizu, Soichiro Fujiwara, Kei Okubo, Ryo Okubo, Akemi Suzuki, Kensuke Suzuki, Kazuo Tsuiki, Atsushi Yamashita, Shuichi Nishimura, Yasuhiro Kasahara, Kosuke Hamaguchi, Tomohiro Okawa, Hiromi Hattori, Kohei Mano, Shunsuke Minowa, Nobuhiro Anzai, Kazuki Tahara, Akihiro Tokura, Takahiro Oishi, Axel Kuhlmann, Ryuji Sakai

Corporate Governance and Compliance Practice
Fumihide Sugimoto, Jun Kanda, Takayoshi Tao, Tsuyoshi Shimizu, Yosuke Kanegae, Tatsuya Okano, Keiji Tokujiya, Yoshihiko Matake, Kosuke Hamaguchi, Takashi Suzuki, Kiyoshi Sudo, Ayumi Fukuhara, Kazuaki Nishida, Daisuke Fukamizu, Kohei Mano, Kazuki Tahara, Toru Takayama, Akihiro Tokura, Tomohiro Hen, Stephen Price

Criminal Defense
Yoshihiro Takatori

Energy Law
Jiro Mikami, Yutaro Fujimoto, Tomohiro Koyasu, Minoru Ota

Financial Institution Regulatory Law
Fumihide Sugimoto, Satoshi Inoue, Keiko Shimizu, Taku Umezawa, Kensuke Suzuki, Atsushi Sakai, Ohki Mizuno, Hironori Matsuo, Hideaki Suda, Yasushi Kudo

Fintech Practice
Taku Umezawa, Keiji Tonomura

Information Technology Law
Yoshimi Ohara, Takahiro Yamauchi, Keiji Tonomura

Insolvency and Reorganization Law
Satoshi Inoue, Takahiro Yamauchi, Jiro Mikami, Yosuke Kanegae, Yutaka Kuroda, Kohei Okawa, Takashi Suzuki, Tomohiro Okawa, Nobuaki Kobayashi

Insurance Law
Keitaro Oshimo, Taku Umezawa, Atsushi Sakai

Intellectual Property Law
Takahiro Yamauchi, Kenji Tosaki, Shunji Matsuda, Shinsuke Hiratsu

International Arbitration
Yoshimi Ohara, Naoki Iguchi, Koki Yanagisawa, Kaori Sugimoto

International Business Transactions
Soichiro Uno, Hiroki Inoue, Yuko Tamai, Masayuki Fukuda, Satoshi Moriguchi, Kayo Takigawa, Nobuyoshi Inujima, Motohiro Yanagawa, Takashi Tsukioka, Hironobu Tsukamoto, Junji Yamanaka, Ryo Okubo, Akemi Suzuki, Hiroshi Tago, Kazuo Tsuiki, Yoshitoshi Imoto, Motohisa Nakagawa, Nobuo Fukui, Tadashi Yamamoto, Yu Wakae, Keiji Tokujiya, Yoshihiko Matake, Masanori Kawai, Shohei Sasaki, Keigo Sawayama, Yoshikazu Hasegawa, Kenji Horiuchi, Mayuko Tsujimoto, Wataru Matsumoto, Haseru Roku, Stephen Price

Investment and Investment Funds
Hiroyuki Ishizuka, Masatsura Kadota, Keiko Shimizu, Kensuke Suzuki, Shu Sasaki

Labor and Employment Law
Masahiro Matsuoka, Jun Kanda, Hironobu Tsukamoto, Oki Mori, Satoshi Hosokawa

Life Sciences Practice
Kenji Utsumi, Kensuke Suzuki

Litigation
Seiichiro Umeno, Masahiro Matsuoka, Jun Kanda, Kenji Tosaki, Hironobu Tsukamoto, Koki Yanagisawa, Atsushi Yamashita, Oki Mori, Eriko Ogata, Takayuki Fujii, Hiroyuki Ebisawa, Kohei Okawa, Soh Inoue, Yoshihiro Takatori

Media and Entertainment Law
Shinichi Matsui

Privacy and Data Security Law
Akemi Suzuki, Tomomi Hioki

Private Equity, Private Funds and Venture Capital Law
Hiroki Inoue, Hiroshi Mitoma, Kei Asatsuma, Tomohiko Iwasaki, Masaki Konishi, Soichiro Fujiwara, Ryo Okubo, Takashi Miyazaki, Hiromi Hattori, Akihiro Tokura, Masaki Mizukoshi

Product Liability Litigation
Junichi Ikeda, Yoshihiro Takatori

Project Finance and Development Practice
Takao Higuchi, Shinichi Matsui, Jiro Mikami, Terukazu Katsuyama, Tsutomu Kobayashi, Hiroshi Fujiwara, Shinichiro Horaguchi, Yoshifumi Shimoda, Yutaro Fujimoto, Yoshimune Muraji, Tomohiro Koyasu

Real Estate Law
Mami Ikebukuro, Naohiro Nishimura, Kenji Utsumi, Jiro Mikami, Hiroto Inoue, Junji Yamanaka, Makoto Saito, Kiyoshi Honda, Yoshinobu Koyama, Shinichiro Horaguchi, Yoshifumi Shimoda, Takehito Matsumoto, Shunsuke Minowa, Takashi Itokawa, Masato Kumeuchi, Eiji Miyagi, Yoshihisa Watanabe, Shiro Kato, Takahiro Kitagawa

Structured Finance Law
Mami Ikebukuro, Satoshi Inoue, Ichiro Oya, Naohiro Nishimura, Masayuki Fukuda, Nobuyoshi Inujima, Motohiro Yanagawa, Takashi Tsukioka, Hideaki Suda, Shinichiro Horaguchi

Tax Law
Shigeki Minami, Yushi Hegawa, Takashi Saida, Koichiro Yoshimura, Kenji Horiuchi, Tsutomu Endo

Technology Law
Keiji Tonomura

Trade Law
Mitsuo Matsushita

Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch in Japan

Banking and Finance Law
Yuki Tsuboi

Corporate and Mergers and Acquisitions Law
Yuki Tsuboi

Insolvency and Reorganization Law
Rintaro Oishi

Private Equity, Private Funds and Venture Capital Law
Yuki Tsuboi

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