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Rankings published in 2026
M&A
Tier 4
22 firms ranked
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Tier 1

Anderson Mori & Tomotsune
13 practice areas
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Mori Hamada
13 practice areas
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Nagashima Ohno & Tsunematsu
13 practice areas
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Nishimura & Asahi
13 practice areas
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Tier 2

Baker McKenzie
17 practice areas
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Morrison & Foerster
20 practice areas
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Oh-Ebashi LPC & Partners
8 practice areas
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TMI Associates
13 practice areas
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Tier 3

A&O Shearman
18 practice areas
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Atsumi & Sakai
11 practice areas
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Clifford Chance
20 practice areas
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Freshfields
18 practice areas
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Linklaters
19 practice areas
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Miura & Partners
4 practice areas
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Paul Hastings
14 practice areas
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Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom
13 practice areas
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White & Case
16 practice areas
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Tier 4

City-Yuwa Partners
12 practice areas
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Hibiya Nakata
3 practice areas
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Jones Day
7 practice areas
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O'Melveny & Myers
6 practice areas
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Notable

Tokyo International Law Office
2 practice areas
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Linked Reviews
Financial and corporate

Established in 2012, Hibiya Nakata is a Tokyo-based boutique Japanese law firm. It works closely with Allen & Overy and has access to the Pacific Rim Advisory Council network.

 

Focusses / specialisms 

The firm is focused on inbound and outbound M&A work and caters to mid-sized cross-border M&A transactions. It is traditionally good at advising Japanese companies on their European/US M&A transactions and developed Asian M&A transactions in recent years.

 

Key clients 

 

Key clients include Sika, Vertex Ventures SEA Management, UT Group, Obayashi, Appirits, Kyoei Denki, Shizuoka Gas, and Daiwa House Industry.

 

Client feedback: 32nd edition (2022/2023) 

M&A

“They provide us with detailed analysis on the possible structure of the collaboration, risk concerning anti-trust laws and regulations, procedures for anti-trust filing. Also, they supported our contract negotiations which includes contract reviewing and drafting of documents.”

“Networking with overseas law firm, managing legal affairs for carve-out deal under collaboration with overseas law firm.”

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