Awards
146 lawyers from Nagashima Ohno & Tsunematsu (“NO&T”) were included in the 2025 Edition of The Best Lawyers in Japan.
In addition, the following five lawyers were selected as “Lawyer of the Year” in each practice area.
Satoshi Inoue: Banking and Finance Law
Hiroki Inoue: International Business Transactions
Shigeki Minami: Tax Law
Masatsura Kadota: Investment and Investment Funds
Kenichi Fujinawa: Corporate and Mergers and Acquisitions Law
For more details, please refer to the Best Lawyers website.
Antitrust / Competition Law
Kaoru Hattori, Koki Yanagisawa, Yoshitoshi Imoto, Yusuke Kaeriyama, Ryohei Tanaka, Daisuke Fukamizu, Satoshi Ogawa, Nobuaki Ito, Jun Naitoh, Atsushi Iritani
Arbitration and Mediation
Yoshimi Ohara, Hironobu Tsukamoto, Naoki Iguchi, Oki Mori, Jun Naitoh, Hisaya Kimura
Asset Finance Law
Satoshi Inoue, Naohiro Nishimura, Motohiro Yanagawa
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, Kazuya Ogawa, Hironori Matsuo, Yoshifumi Shimoda, Minoru Ota, Tsutomu Kobayashi
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, Hidetaka Mihara
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, Akihiro Tokura, Haseru Roku, Takahiro Oishi, Axel Kuhlmann, Tohru Nakajima, Kenichi Fujinawa, Hisaya Kimura, Ryuji Sakai, Atsushi Iritani
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, Kazuki Tahara, Akihiro Tokura, Tomohiro Hen, Hideaki Kobayashi, Hisaya Kimura, Atsushi Iritani, Stephen Price
Criminal Defense
Hideaki Kobayashi, Jun Naitoh, Hisaya Kimura
Energy Law
Jiro Mikami, Yutaro Fujimoto, Tomohiro Koyasu, Minoru Ota
Financial Institution Regulatory Law
Fumihide Sugimoto, Satoshi Inoue, Taku Umezawa, Kensuke Suzuki, Atsushi Sakai, Ohki Mizuno, Hironori Matsuo, Hideaki Suda
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, Hiroshi Tago, Yutaka Kuroda, Kohei Okawa, Takashi Suzuki, Tomohiro Okawa, Nobuaki Kobayashi
Insurance Law
Keitaro Oshimo, Atsushi Sakai
Intellectual Property Law
Takahiro Yamauchi, Kenji Tosaki, Shunji Matsuda, Shinsuke Hiratsu, Tohru Nakajima
International Arbitration
Yoshimi Ohara, Koki Yanagisawa
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, Norimitsu Arai, Hironobu Tsukamoto, Satoshi Hosokawa
Life Sciences Practice
Kenji Utsumi, Kensuke Suzuki
Litigation
Seiichiro Umeno, Masahiro Matsuoka, Jun Kanda, Norimitsu Arai, Kenji Tosaki, Hironobu Tsukamoto, Koki Yanagisawa, Atsushi Yamashita, Eriko Ogata, Jun Naitoh, Hisaya Kimura
Media and Entertainment Law
Shinich Matsui
Privacy and Data Security Law
Akemi Suzuki
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, Masaki Mizukoshi
Product Liability Litigation
Junichi Ikeda
Project Finance and Development Practice
Takao Higuchi, Shinichi Matsui, Jiro Mikami, Rintaro Hirano, Terukazu Katsuyama, Hiroshi Fujiwara, Shinichiro Horaguchi, Yoshifumi Shimoda, Yutaro Fujimoto, Yoshimune Muraji, Tomohiro Koyasu
Real Estate Law
Mami Ikebukuro, Shunpei Tanaka, Naohiro Nishimura, Kenji Utsumi, Jiro Mikami, Hiroto Inoue, Junji Yamanaka, Makoto Saito, Kiyoshi Honda, Yoshinobu Koyama, Shinichiro Horaguchi, Yoshifumi Shimoda, Shunsuke Minowa, Takashi Itokawa, Yoshihisa Watanabe
Structured Finance Law
Mami Ikebukuro, Shunpei Tanaka, Satoshi Inoue, Ichiro Oya, Naohiro Nishimura, Masayuki Fukuda, Nobuyoshi Inujima, Motohiro Yanagawa, Takashi Tsukioka, Rintaro Hirano, 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