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We are very pleased to announce that Mr. Ando has joined our firm as a patent attorney as of March 1, 2012.

Our associate, Ayako Kuyama will conduct a lecture entitled "The 2002 ISDA Master Agreement" during the following conference.

We are please to announce that on February 23, 2012, our firm was honored with the "National Law Firm of the Year" award at the "IFLR Asia Awards 2012" held in Hong Kong, hosted by IFLR (International Financial Law Review).

Anderson Mori & Tomotsune have been ranked as Band 1 group in the practice areas of Banking & Finance, Capital Markets, Competition/Antitrust, Dispute Resolution, Employment, Investment Funds and Real Estate in Chambers Asia 2012 edition and some of our lawyers has been chosen as leaders in his/her field.

Our special counsel, Hiroya Ito, and our partner, Yuichiro Nukada was involved as the exclusive expert from Japan in the Round Table feature on Real Estate, which was published in the January 2012 issue of Corporate Intl.

article by The Asian Lawyer

Anderson Mori & Tomotsune has received high evaluations by Asialaw Profiles 2012 for the following fields.

Tier 1
Banking & Finance
Construction & Real Estate - domestic firms
Dispute Resolution - domestic firms
Labour & Employment 

eAccess Ltd. ("eAccess") was voted as the "Best Bond Deal" of The Asset Triple A Regional Awards 2011, Best Japan Deals (organized by The Asset Publishing and Research Ltd.) for issuing USD 420 million senior notes and EUR 200 million senior notes in the US and Euro markets on April 1, 2011.

We are pleased to announce that Naoko Itoh has been promoted to a special counsel of the firm as of January 1, 2012.

We are pleased to announce that Yoshinori Aoyagi, Shigeki Tatsuno, Ken Kobayashi, Ko Wakabayashi, Hiroto Ando, Yasunari Fuke and Ryo Kotoura have been promoted to partners of the firm as of January 1, 2012.

We are very pleased to announce that this January 2012, 19 new first year Japanese associates joined our firm. These new associates are:

Anderson Mori & Tomotsune has been ranked as one of the first tier law firms in Japan with respect to tax matters by the Tax Directors Handbook 2012 edition and our partners, Eiichiro Nakatani, Koji Fujita, Kotaro Okamoto have been listed as heads of practice.

Our partner, Naoki Iguchi has been nominated to the list of recognized Commercial Arbitration Lawyers in "The Who's Who Legal Commercial Arbitration 2012" published by the Legal Business Research.

Anderson Mori & Tomotsune have received high evaluations in The Legal 500 Asia Pacific 2012 and some of our lawyers have been chosen as Leading Individuals in his/her field.

We are very pleased to announce that Mr. Hideki Tomonaga, Of Counsel has joined our firm as of November 15, 2011.

Anderson Mori & Tomotsune have been ranked as Tier 1 group in the practice areas of Banking, Capital Markets - Debt and Equity in IFLR 1000 - The Guide to the World's Leading Financial Law Firms 2012 and some of our lawyers has been chosen as "Leading Lawyers" in his/her field.

We are very pleased to announce that Mr. Sungho Kim joined our firm as a Korean patent attorney on October 3, 2011.

We are very pleased to announce that Mr. Kan Otani joined our firm as a patent attorney on October 3, 2011.

Our firm won the "ASIAN-MENA COUNSEL Firms of the Year 2011," an award run by the Pacific Business Press Ltd., for the following categories and has also been chosen as "Most Responsive Domestic Firm of the Year."

We are very pleased to announce that this October 2011, two new first year Japanese associates joined our firm. As a result, our firm now has over 300 Japanese attorneys. These new associates are:

Our Senior Foreign Counsel, Piyasena Perera was selected as one of the "The Movers & Shakers" in the September issue of ALB Magazine's "ALB Hot 100" which list those who have performed outstandingly in their field, or courted controversy and turned heards in Asia. 

"Expansion into the Japanese insurance market"

Our partner, Tomoki Debari, our associate, Yasutaka Emoto , and our foreign legal associate, Jeffrey A. Eagan have written an article in the following publication. 

Our associate, Takashi Tezuka's comment regarding corporation rehabilitation plan and the refund of corporate tax has been published in an article on the website article by Reuters.com.

Anderson Mori & Tomotsune has been named "Japan Law Firm of the Year 2011" in the Who's Who Legal Awards for the second consecutive time.

Property Rights", October 26 through October 27, 2011

Seminar:
Joint Judicial Conference on Japan and U.S. Intellectual Property Rights
Session in which Yasufumi Shiroyama will participate: "Indirect Infringement" (October 26th, 1:30pm -3:00pm)

Our partner, Kazutoshi Kakuyama won the International Law Office (ILO) Client Choice Award 2011 under the individual category in the work area of Employment & Labour in Japan.

We are please to announce that on June 22, 2011, Anderson Mori & Tomotsune was honored with the following awards by the Asian Legal Business, a worldwide legal professional magazine.

Anderson Mori & Tomotsune has been ranked 1st among Japan's domestic firms in "Employer of Choice 2011" in the April 2011 issue of ALB.

Anderson Mori & Tomotsune has been ranked as "ALB's Leading Tax Law Firms 2011" in the March issue of ALB.

"The International Who's Who of Competition Lawyers and Economists 2011"

Anderson Mori & Tomotsune have been ranked as Band 1 group in the practice areas of Banking & Finance, Capital Markets, Competition/Antitrust, Dispute Resolution, Employment, Investment Funds and Real Estate in Chambers Asia 2011 edition and some of our lawyers has been chosen as leaders in his/her field.

We are very pleased to announce that Mr. Masahito Monguchi, Of Counsel has joined our firm as of March 22, 2011.

We are pleased to announce that Mr. Piyasena Perera, a US qualified lawyer with extensive experience in corporate finance, cross-border mergers and acquisitions, investment funds and general corporate and securities law matters has been appointed as Senior Foreign Counsel of the firm.

Our firm won the "Management Labour and Employment Law Firm of the Year" at the 2010 Dealmakers Annual Awards

Our partner, Naoki Iguchi has been nominated to the list of recognized Commercial Arbitration Lawyers in "The Who's Who Legal Commercial Arbitration 2011" published by the Legal Business Research.

We are very pleased to announce that Mr. Manabu Katsumata has joined our firm as an associate attorney as of January 5, 2011. His practice primarily involves M&A transactions and other corporate matters, with an emphasis on MBO (management buy-outs) and related transactions, going-private transactions, corporate restructurings and merger and acquisitions of listed companies, and cross-boarder M&A transactions.

We are pleased to announce that Chisato Higashio has been promoted to a special counsel of the firm as of January 1, 2011.

We are pleased to announce that Shinji Nakamura, Nobuhito Sawasaki, Etsuko Hara, Norifumi Takeuchi, Mari Itoh, Ko Hanamizu, Tetsuro Motoyoshi, Yuhki Tanaka and Naokuni Fukuda have been promoted to partners of the firm as of January 1, 2011.

We are very pleased to announce that this January 2011, 27 new first year Japanese associates joined our firm. As a result, our firm now has approximately 320 Japanese attorneys. These new associates are:

The "2nd Asia Pacific Regional Forum Conference and Bar Leaders day - Asia after the GFC - leading the global recovery" was held by the International Bar Association from November 17 to 19, 2010 in Tokyo.

We are very pleased to announce that Ms. Ai Nagaoka joined our firm as a patent attorney on December 1, 2010.

Anderson Mōri & Tomotsune was honored for the second time in three years with the Gold Award as the Best Law Firm in Japan at the International Legal Alliance Summit and Awards in Paris.

Our firm won the "Japan's Law Firm of the Year " and 16 lawyers received a high evaluation in the 2010 Who's who Legal awards, which is to be published next month in The International Who's Who of Business Lawyers 2010. For further details,

On July 5, 2010, our partner Akira Kawamura who is also the vice president of the International Bar Association (IBA) received a courtesy call from the Iraq Ambassador Lukman Faily. They talked about the active participation of the Iraq and Kurdish Bar Association regarding the 2011 Dubai annual meeting.

Our partner, Naoki Iguchi has been nominated to the list of recognized Product Liability Defence Lawyers in "The International Who's Who of Product Liability Defence Lawyers 2010" published by the Legal Business Research. We are pleased to note that he was the only recognized Product Liability Defence Lawyer in Japan.

Anderson Mori & Tomotsune have been ranked as Band 1 group in the practice areas of Banking & Finance:PFI/PPP, Banking & Finance: Regulatory, Capital Markets, Competition/Antitrust, Dispute Resolution, Employment and Investment Funds in Chambers Asia 2010 edition and some of our lawyers has been chosen as leaders in his/her field.

Our partner, Tsuyoshi Nagahama was selected as one of "The Statesmen", and our Senior Foreign Counsel Vassili Moussis as "The Foreign Contingent" in the September issue of ALB Magazine's "ALB Hot 100 Pre-eminent Asia-Pacific lawyers".

We are pleased to announce that our partner, Akira Kawamura was formally nominated as the next President of the International Bar Association (the "IBA") for a two-year term, effective January 2011. The nomination took place on October 7, 2010, during IBA Annual Conference in Vancouver, Canada.

We are very pleased to announce that Mr. Tsubokura joined our firm as a patent attorney on October 12, 2010.

We are very pleased to announce that Mr. Kazuki Shigemori joined our firm as a patent attorney on November 1, 2010.