Our Firm
Mori Hamada & Matsumoto (MHM) is one of the largest full-service Tokyo headquartered international law firms. A significant proportion of the firm’s work is international in nature, representing clients in cross-border transactions, litigation and other dispute resolution proceedings.

Our Professionals
MHM firm has over 700 lawyers and 640 support staff including patent attorneys, licensed tax accountants, legal assistants and translators. Its senior lawyers include highly respected practitioners and leaders from the Japanese and international legal community, including prominent law professors from the University of Tokyo, and a former Prosecutor-General from the Public Prosecutors Office. The firm also has experienced lawyers qualified in the US, England and Wales, the People’s Republic of China, Bangladesh, the Philippines, India, Malaysia, Singapore, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam and more.

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Our Legal topics

• Asset finance
• Banking
• Capital markets: Debt
• Capital markets: Derivatives
• Capital markets: Equity
• Capital markets: High yield
• CLO/CDO
• Competition
• Covered bonds
• Financial restructuring
• Financial services regulatory
• Hedge funds
• Investment funds
• Islamic finance
• M&A
• PPP/PFI
• Private equity
• Private equity funds
• Project bonds
• Project development
• Project finance
• Real estate finance
• Real estate funds
• Restructuring and insolvency
• Structured finance/securitisation
• Trade finance

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• Advising global private equity giant KKR in its take-private acquisition of Hitachi Transport System at an estimated deal value of USD 4.63 billion
• Japan Post Holdings Co., Ltd., Japan Post Bank Co., Ltd., and Japan Post Insurance Co., Ltd. in their JPY1.43 trillion concurrent global initial public offerings and global follow-on offerings
• The Japanese Bankers Association and Japan Syndication and Loan-trading Association in connection with the permanent cessation of LIBOR and Euro Yen TIBOR.