The 2012 edition of the Best Lawyers in Japan has been announced, and the following lawyers have received high evaluation.

Antitrust / Competition
Eriko Watanabe

Banking and Finance Law
Fumihide Sugimoto, Takao Higuchi, Satoshi Inoue, Jiro Mikami

Capital Market
Hidetaka Mihara, Fumihide Sugimoto, Miyuki Ishiguro, Hiroyuki Ishizuka, Masaki Konishi, Masatsura Kadota

Corporate and M&A
Hisashi Hara, Kenichi Fujinawa, Tohru Nakajima, Ryuji Sakai, Soichiro Uno, Seiichiro Umeno, Hiroki Inoue, Hiroshi Mitoma, Yuko Tamai, Tomohiko Iwasaki

Financial Institution Regulatory Law
Fumihide Sugimoto, Satoshi Inoue

Insurance
Keitaro Oshimo

Intellectual Property
Ryoichi Mimura

International Business Transactions
Yuko Tamai

Labor and Employment
Masahiro Matsuoka, Norimitsu Arai

Litigation
Jun Naitoh, Hisaya Kimura, Seiichiro Umeno, Jun Kanda, Norimitsu Arai

Project Finance
Takao Higuchi

Real Estate
Hisashi Hara, Shunpei Tanaka, Naohiro Nishimura, Jiro Mikami

Structured Finance
Shunpei Tanaka, Satoshi Inoue, Naohiro Nishimura

Tax
Yuko Miyazaki, Atsushi Fujieda, Takashi Saida

Trade
Mitsuo Matsushita