No. of offices 5 No. of employees 733 (May 2013) Date founded December 1, 2002 Founded 1 December 2002 Number of attorneys 322 (May 2013) | No. of attorneys 322 (May 2013) Major practice areas General practice Headquarters Chiyoda, Tokyo Number of employees 733 (May 2013) Number of offices 5 | |
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Mori hamada matsumoto top 5 facts
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.
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The firm was founded in 2002 by the merger of Mori Sogo Law Offices and Hamada & Matsumoto. It became the first major Japanese law firm to open an office in Singapore in October 2011, the second to open an office in Fukuoka in July 2013, and the second to open offices in Osaka and Yangon in April 2014. It also opened an "MHM Desk" at the law firm of Chandler & Thong-Ek in Bangkok in September 2013.
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.
Mori Hamada is the only Big Four firm that operates as a single-tiered partnership with equal treatment of partners regardless of seniority.
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.