Lawyers in Japan

Yoshiaki Shimizu

Yoshiaki Shimizu specialises in real estate finance, real estate investment, development, structured finance, general banking and fund regulations.

Clifford Chance (Gaikokuho Kyodo Jigyo)

Yoshifumi Onodera

Partner

Mori Hamada

Yoshifumi Shimoda

Partner: banking, real estate and energy

Nagashima Ohno & Tsunematsu

Yoshiharu Usuki

Competition/Antitrust/Corporate Crisis Management

Anderson Mori & Tomotsune

Yoshihiko Matake

Partner of NO&T’s crisis management and compliance practice team. His main area of practice is corporate crisis management, international dispute resolution, M&A, import and export controls and data protection regulation.

Nagashima Ohno & Tsunematsu

Yoshihiro Toji

Partner

Iwata Godo

Yoshihisa Watanabe

Partner

Nagashima Ohno & Tsunematsu

Yoshikazu Abe

Mori Hamada

Yoshikazu Hasegawa

Yoshikazu Hasegawa is a partner of Nagashima Ohno & Tsunematsu. He has extensive experience in cross-border mergers & acquisitions, joint ventures, energy and infrastructure and real estate projects involving Japan and Asia Pacific region. He also advises on wealth management matters for high net worth clients. He has been selected as a leading lawyer by Chambers Global in Corporate/ M&A area. He is also one of the top 15 private wealth lawyers in Asia (Asian Legal Business, 2022) and has been rated as a leading lawyer by Chambers and The Legal 500 Asia Pacific.

Nagashima Ohno & Tsunematsu

Yoshikazu Iwase

Partner (Intellectual Property)

Anderson Mori & Tomotsune

Yoshimi Ohara

Partner

Nagashima Ohno & Tsunematsu

Yoshimoto Kawamura

Partner

Ushijima & Partners

Yoshinobu Koyama

Partner

Nagashima Ohno & Tsunematsu

Yoshitoshi Imoto

Yoshitoshi Imoto is a partner at Nagashima Ohno & Tsunematsu. He advises on all aspects of competition law for both domestic and multi-national clients in connection with M&A, strategic alliance projects, IT/digital antitrust matters as well as cartel investigations and follow-on private lawsuits. He has abundant experiences and expertise in handling high-profile and complex mergers particularly in pharmaceutical industry, automobiles and electronics sectors. His recent professional highlights also include counseling for both domestic and international clients in relation to antitrust investigations on unilateral conduct. He successfully represented a third party claimant that suffered from the industry leader's exclusionary conduct that resulted in the authority's formal investigation.

Nagashima Ohno & Tsunematsu

Yoshiyuki Mitashita

Of Counsel, Tokyo

Nishimura & Asahi

Yoshiyuki Omori

Partner

Withers Japan

Yosuke Iwasaki

Associate

Aquaxis Law Office

Yosuke Kanegae

For over 25 years, Yosuke Kanegae has consistently focused on business restructuring and insolvency matters. Representing all stakeholders—including debtors, financial creditors, trade creditors, sponsors, investors, shareholders, and individual executives throughout all stages, from out-of-court workout to in-court proceedings, including risk assessment. Yosuke Kanegae is particularly strong in cases involving international elements, cases requiring the handling of complex financial schemes, and business restructuring cases requiring negotiations with a large number of interested parties. Yosuke Kanegae is also actively involved in litigation cases involving tax and accounting issues, and has represented taxpayers in several important tax lawsuits, winning judgments.

Nagashima Ohno & Tsunematsu

Yosuke Takenaka

Partner

Baker McKenzie (Gaikokuho Joint Enterprise)

Yu Mizushima

Associate

So & Sato Law Offices

Yu Tamura

Partner. He specializes in handling cross-border and domestic mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, private equity, strategic alliances, activist defenses, and other corporate transactions. In particular, he has extensive experience in public tender offers and other public transactions.

Nagashima Ohno & Tsunematsu

Yudai Oka

Associate

Aquaxis Law Office

Yuichi Miyashita

Yuichi Miyashita is a partner of capital markets practice at Nagashima Ohno & Tsunematsu and has been recognized for his expertise in this area by Chambers Global (Band 3 rating for Capital Markets Domestic) and Chamers Asia-Pacific (Band 3 rating for Capital Markets Domestic), IFLR1000 (Highly regarded for Capital Markets), The Legal 500 Asia Pacific (Next Generation Partner for Capital Markets, Japan), Lexology Index (Recommended for Capital Markets, Japan) and the Best Lawyers in Japan (Capital Markets Law). He was also selected as “Lawyer of the Year” by the Best Layers in Japan (2026 edition) in capital market practice area. Chambers says that he “is active on capital markets transactions and regularly advises on significant IPOs and security token offerings. He wins praise from sources for his customer-centric approach to matters.” It also quotes clients who appreciate that “He proposes advice from a client’s perspective.”, “He is highly accessible, responsible, experienced and familiar with our practice.” and “I go to Miyashita on Japanese law matters. He is reliable and provides us with solid advice.” (Chambers Global 2024 and 2025) Yuichi utilizes his work experience at equity capital market division of a major investment bank. He handles a wide variety of capital market transactions, including IPOs, equity and debt primary/secondary follow-on offerings, third-party allotments, block trades and transactions of class shares, warrants, convertible bonds and security token offerings, in both domestic and international markets. Yuichi also advises on sustainable finance and sustainability disclosure. He has been awarded as “Green Ambassador” by The Legal 500 Asia-Pacific Green Guide 2024 and recognized for his strongest involvement with sustainability matters. In addition to his capital markets practice, he advises on financial regulations, M&A transactions, corporate governance and general corporate matters.

Nagashima Ohno & Tsunematsu

Yuichi Oda

Yuichi Oda is a partner in the Competition and Antitrust/Consumer Protection practice of Oh-Ebashi's Tokyo office group. Mr. Oda provides counsel in all areas of competition law, such as government investigations, follow-on litigations, and mergers and acquisitions. He has substantial experience defending clients in cartel cases, including investigations by the JFTC and follow-on administrative/private litigations, abuse of bargaining power cases launched by the JFTC. He also has experience coordinating cartel matters and mergers and acquisitions in multiple jurisdictions, including the U.S., the European Union, Canada, Brazil, and Korea.

Oh-Ebashi LPC & Partners