No. of offices 4 Major practice areas General practice Founded 1952 Number of offices 4 | No. of attorneys 329 Date founded 1952 Number of attorneys 329 | |
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Company type Partnership under Japanese law | ||
Anderson Mōri & Tomotsune (アンダーソン・毛利・友常法律事務所, Andāson Mōri Tomotsune Hōritsu Jimusho) is one of the "Big Four" law firms in Japan.
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The firm was founded in 1952 as O'Gorman, Nattier & Anderson after its three initial partners who were all American attorneys. The firm merged with Shenoh & Mōri in 1961 to form Anderson, Nattier, Mōri & Rabinowitz, which was renamed to Anderson Mōri & Rabinowitz in 1963. The firm changed its name to Anderson & Mōri in 1991 following the departure of partner Richard Rabinowitz, who joined several other Anderson Mori attorneys to form the firm of Tōzai Sōgō in 1994. The firm adopted its present name after merging with Tomotsune & Kimura in 2005; Tomotsune & Kimura was itself an offshoot of the law firm founded by Toshiro Nishimura in 1967, which would eventually become Nishimura & Asahi.
Following the collapse of Bingham McCutchen in 2014, 50 of the 60 lawyers at Bingham's Tokyo office joined Anderson Mori in 2015, with the remainder joining the Tokyo office of Morgan, Lewis & Bockius.
Anderson operates as a two-tiered partnership, under which associates become non-equity "junior partners" in their 10th to 12th year of practice, but only become equity-holding senior partners at a later stage (if ever).
Practice
In 2008, at the 2008 ALB Japan Law Awards, Anderson Mori & Tomotsune was crowned:
In 2012, at the IFLR Asia Awards 2012, Anderson Mori & Tomotsune was named "National Law Firm of the Year".
The firm joined Ius Laboris in 2014.
Offices
Anderson Mori's main office is in Akasaka K-Tower, Akasaka, Minato City, Tokyo.
Its first overseas office was in Beijing, opened in 1998. In 2013, the firm opened two new overseas offices in Shanghai and Singapore, as well as its first domestic branch office in Nagoya. The firm's Asian offices focus on supporting Japanese clients abroad.