Mr Yasuzo Takeno > Mori Hamada & Matsumoto > Tokyo, Japan > Lawyer Profile

Mori Hamada & Matsumoto
16TH FLOOR, MARUNOUCHI PARK BUILDING
2-6-1 MARUNOUCHI, CHIYODA-KU
TOKYO 100-8222
Japan

Work Department

Asset Management. Banking and Finance

Position

Partner

Career

He is a partner with decades of experience in advisory work for both domestic and foreign investment managers and investment funds businesses. His practice area also covers corporate finance activities and financial regulation.

Languages

Japanese, English

Memberships

Daini Tokyo Bar Association, Member of International Bar Association, Member of Inter Pacific Bar Association

Education

Waseda University (LL.B., 1985), University of Oxford, Worcester College (M.Litt, 1992)

Lawyer Rankings

Japan > Investment funds: Independent local firms

(Leading individuals: Bengoshi)

Yasuzo TakenoMori Hamada & Matsumoto

Yasuzo Takeno and ‘very seasoned lawyer’ Ken Miura head up Mori Hamada & Matsumoto‘s team. Miura ‘has a strong relationship with financial regulators’ and leads many regulatory matters for the team, while Takeno has strong knowledge of investment fund law and is praised as ‘one of the best lawyers in the investment fund and asset management business in Japan’. The group ‘has high quality lawyers advising the highest quality clients’, and has notable expertise assisting a high proportion of new non-Japanese funds looking to invest in Japan. Nobuharu Onishi ‘has become the go-to lawyer in the practice for investment funds’, praised as ‘very commercial, hands-on and technically exceptional’.