Mori Hamada & Matsumoto

Mori Hamada & Matsumoto (森・濱田松本法律事務所, Mori Hamada Matsumoto Hōritsu Jimusho) is one of the "Big Four" law firms in Japan.

Mori Hamada & Matsumoto
HeadquartersChiyoda, Tokyo, Japan
No. of offices10 (6 international)
No. of attorneys462 (July 2018)[1]
No. of employees481 (July 2018)[1]
Major practice areasGeneral practice
Date founded1949
Company typePartnership under Japanese law
Websitehttp://www.mhmjapan.com/en/

The firm was founded in 2002 by the merger of Mori Sogo Law Offices and Hamada & Matsumoto. Mori Sogo Law Offices was founded in 1949 and was considered to be one of the "Big Four" prior to the merger. It became the first major Japanese law firm to open an office in Singapore in October 2011,[2] the second to open an office in Fukuoka in July 2013,[3] and the second to open offices in Osaka and Yangon in April 2014.[4] It also opened an "MHM Desk" at the law firm of Chandler & Thong-Ek in Bangkok in September 2013.[5]

Chambers & Partners ranks Mori Hamada as a first tier firm in banking and finance, capital markets, corporate/M&A and intellectual property. Its major clients include All Nippon Airways, Bain Capital, Daikin Industries, INPEX, Nippon Television, Panasonic, Sanyo Electric and Softbank.[6]

Mori Hamada is the only Big Four firm that operates as a single-tiered partnership with equal treatment of partners regardless of seniority.[7]

Offices

Mori Hamada's main office is in the Marunouchi Park Building in Tokyo. It has domestic branch offices in Fukuoka, Nagoya and Osaka, and overseas offices in Beijing, Shanghai, Singapore and Yangon.

Notable people
  • Kunio Hamada, former Supreme Court justice (co-founded precursor firm Hamada & Matsumoto)

References
  1. Includes non-Japanese attorneys. About the Firm, Mori Hamada & Matsumoto.
  2. "森・浜田松本法律事務所、シンガポールに". 日本経済新聞. 21 October 2011. Retrieved 20 January 2014.
  3. "森・浜田事務所、福岡に拠点開設　弁護士２人常駐". 日本経済新聞 (朝刊 法務). 15 July 2013. Retrieved 16 July 2013.
  4. "ヤンゴンと大阪に事務所　森・浜田松本". 日本経済新聞. 20 January 2014. Retrieved 20 January 2014.
  5. "森・浜田松本法律事務所 タイに相談デスク開設". 日本経済新聞. 2 September 2013. Retrieved 2 September 2013.
  6. http://www.chambersandpartners.com/Global/Firms/3557-286662
  7. "弁護士業界の最強集団"ブル弁"の生態とは？". Toyo Keizai. 24 July 2013. Retrieved 9 September 2015. ４大事務所の中で唯一、司法修習期に関係なくパートナー全員が対等なのが森・濱田松本。全員が対等なので、パートナーにシニア、ジュニアの区別はない。
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