About

Provided by Mori Hamada & Matsumoto

We have built our solid position as the Asian leading law firm in the capital markets area, and frequently act in mega cutting-edge deals of equity, debt, J-REITs, securitisation and derivatives. We also advise on disclosure, corporate governance, response to activist shareholders, investigations on accounting fraud and insider trading and securities litigations. We consistently receive the highest evaluation from the market players.

Our recent deals include global IPOs by SBI Sumishin Net Bank, Ltd. and Integral Corporation, concurrent global IPOs of Japan Post Holdings, Japan Post Bank and Japan Post Insurance and their follow on global offerings, periodic global offerings by Nippon Prologis REIT, the leading J-REIT focusing on logistics facilities, the first listing and public offering by a foreign company using the Japan Depository Receipt structure, a global IPO by SoftBank Corp., the first global IPO conducted right after a corporate inversion from a foreign company to a Japanese company, the first IPO which attracted corner stone investors through allocation designated by the issuer, a USD-denominated senior notes and EUR-denominated senior notes offering by NTT Finance, the security token offerings(STOs) including the Japan’s first FIEA compliant asset-backed STOs by Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Bank and Tosei Asset Advisors, a novel financing for Spiber through a “value securitization” and the securitisation of subordinated loans made to Meiji Yasuda Life Insurance Company.

Ranked Lawyers at
Mori Hamada & Matsumoto

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Japan

Capital Markets: Domestic

Katsumasa Suzuki
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Katsumasa Suzuki
Head of Capital Markets: Domestic
1
Band 1
Taro Omoto
2
Taro Omoto
2
Band 2
Toshimitsu Nemoto
2
Toshimitsu Nemoto
2
Band 2
Katsuyuki Tainaka
4
Katsuyuki Tainaka
4
Band 4
Capital Markets: Domestic: J-REITs

Taro Omoto
2
Taro Omoto
2
Band 2
3
Yasuhiko Fujitsu
3
Band 3
Capital Markets: Domestic: Securitisation & Derivatives

Akira Ehira
1
Akira Ehira
1
Band 1
1
Masanori Sato
1
Band 1

Members

Provided by Mori Hamada & Matsumoto

Fuyuki Uchitsu

Katsumasa Suzuki

Katsumasa Suzuki

Head of Department

Kei Shirakawa

Masahito Saeki

Masakazu Kumagai

Masanori Sato

Head of Department

Masayuki Ishibashi

Suguru Miyata

Takafumi Goto

Takahiro Sato

Yoshihito Kuramochi

Yuki Matsuda