‘They are highly professional and experienced and have a strong client first perspective, particularly Jacky Scanlan-Dyas.’

‘Enthusiasm and experience.’

‘It’s a very capable team with a lot of experience dealing with Japanese clients and understanding their needs. They are able to turn work around efficiently and with real value added.’

‘Jacky Scanlan-Dyas is a standout partner in terms of her professionalism, commitment and enthusiasm. Above all, she is a clear communicator, realistic in managing client expectations and displays a very high level of dedication to her clients and their matters.’

‘The HL team has a detailed understanding of our business. They use their extensive global presence to provide us with advice that we can trust in various jurisdictions.’

‘Jacky Scanlan-Dyas provides a helpful central point of contact for us and facilitates engagement of the best suited HL professionals in various jurisdictions.’

‘Reliable, dependable, consistent, good with the budget.’

‘Wataru Kamoto is the partner with whom I deal. He is very good, very creative yet practical.’

‘I would like to name Mr. Randy Laxer, Partner, M&A. He has always shown commitment and is on-top not just of the theme but also of details of any deliverables, oral presentation and capable of QA, negotiation or side-chat seamlessly.’

‘I have consistently found them to be of the highest quality, providing robust, well-thought through and highly strategic advice, and always putting the client’s best interests first.’

‘Jeremy White is quite simply the best M&A lawyer I have ever worked with. His knowledge, dedication to client and project, experience and constructive problem-solving approach is unmatched in the market.’

‘The team is very diversified and they can smoothly deal with both cases of Global M&A and domestic (Japanese only) M&A. The most beneficial point for Japanese companies aiming for potential Global M&A deal, is that a lot of English native qualified lawyers stay in Japan for long time and Japanese communication is also very nice.’

‘Ken Siegel is a truly unique senior statesman who combines exceptional legal judgment, commercial awareness, pragmatic counselling and ‘always on’ availability to deliver a complete package.’

‘The lawyers are excellent and work diligently. Their work is accurate and elaborate. In addition, they have not only legal minds but also business minds.’

‘Mr. Gary Smith is an excellent partner. He appropriately monitors and manages other partners and associates, and leads the transaction. His humanity, and generous and honest character also appeals to clients.’

‘Morrison Foerster’s M&A Tokyo team, specifically Stanley Yukevich, has always been client-oriented, meaning he tries to understand clients’ real needs and capabilities and to give solutions or propose approaches that will realisticallly achieve the purpose.’

‘Its team is always well organized and efficient.’

‘The instructions are very clear and we feel comfortable to work with this team.’

‘Karl Pires is leading the M&A team of Sherman Japan. He is sophisticated and has deep knowledge about M&A deals. He is also fluent in Japanese.’

‘Obvious attitude to work as a strongly tied team. They do not seem to act individually. The quality of service produced from good team work is highly trustworthy, and I assume every member of the firm understands it. Secondly, they are always thoroughly client-friendly. Their effort to grasp the needs of the client is outstanding.’

‘Mr. Brian Strawn’s team is wonderful. His team has very deep knowledge of Japanese and US commercial customs, and so seeks useful and beneficial solutions for clients.’

‘Mr. Brian Strawn, parter, is very stand-out and has unique talent. He has very deep commercial insight, and advice to his clients is based on this.’

‘Ms. Shino Asayama provides the clients with a very good documentation service.’

‘Provides very clear advice based on sound judgement. Has a very commercial mindset.’

‘They can provide us with both corporate/M&A advice and financing advice backed by deep domestic and international expertise, which differentiates them from other firms.’

‘Nels Hansen, partner, tirelessly looks to deliver advice and solve problems.’

‘It is a true international law firm, fully integrated with a global reach.’

‘Clifford Chance’s team was very knowledgeable and capable of managing a number of issues, and were able to advise us of proper solutions.’

‘In addition to Natsuko Sugihara’s leadership, the team’s collaboration across the global footprints was also valuable.’

‘My team worked with Natsuko Sugihara, and she demonstrated her excellent leadership to organize the best team across the global team members, while having her own documentation and negotiation skillsets.’

‘Their Tokyo team is diligent. In addition to that, they have a number of lawyers in Tokyo. Other US or UK based firm tends to have a limited number of lawyers in Tokyo.’

‘Mr. Nishi, a partner, has a great capacity for understanding client’s needs and negotiating in line with those. Really reliable.’

‘DLA Piper’s team, led by Masahiko Ishida-san, differentiate themselves from competitors with their truly bilingual one stop service.’

‘Based on their deep experience in working for Japanese companies on cross-border projects, they always give us practical and solution-oriented advice.’

‘Masahiko Ishida-san is our go-to lawyer whenever we face a complicated legal issue. He always tries to live up to our expectation in the quality, speed and the cost. He is also a savvy communicator and leader who can spearhead multinational team members across the world and it really makes our lives easier.’

‘The team has significant experience and is flexible in meeting the client’s needs.’

‘They understand our business and work with our budget.’

‘Yuichiro Mori in particular is dependable and works hard to meet our needs.’

‘The responsible partner Chris Ahern has incredible skill of quickly understanding our business and our needs and communicating with our CEO and CFO with the clear and succinct language they prefer.’

‘They have offices around the world and thus, can advise their clients on issues with respect to various jurisdictions one-stop. They well collaborate with people in the other offices/areas and also, local firm/counsel.’

‘We’ve worked mainly with Stephen DeCosse who leaded the team, including people in different offices, efficiently and effectively. His response is always swift and his advice is practical, reasonable, and well organized. He always acts proactively and leads us toward what we would like to achieve.’

‘Jones Day’s M&A practice in Japan can use Jones Day’s top US M&A practice in the US-bound deals which makes it stand out from other Japan law offices that do not have the same capacity for US-bound deals.’

‘Ben Lang is excellent with Japanese speakers and in helping manage complex deals.’

‘Their Tokyo Office can function effectively as a window to the global capability of the firm, which is very helpful for working on cross border projects from Japan.’

‘They can mobilize the firm’s global network when needed.’

‘The team servicing our account is extremely responsive and competent. Since our parent company is a large Japanese insurance company, the team’s lead attorney is bilingual with established credentials in both U.S. and Japan.’

‘All team members are very experienced with corporate law, very thorough and are able to bring in resources from other parts of Morgan Lewis as needed to ensure that we have the best quality of service.’

‘Our main contact is Nancy Yamaguchi. She is outstanding and extremely responsive to our needs. Most importantly, in addition to our legal requests, Nancy is also very proactive and is always anticipating what are areas where we will need legal support. Nancy is also very well connected to the tech and Silicon Valley ecosystem, and has consistently made extremely useful introductions to her network for us.’

‘One of the very few global law firms that has a strong venture practice in Japan.’

‘They are capable of servicing all client needs with particular strength in complex cross-border transactions.’

‘I have been working with Hiroki Sugita (Partner) for many years now and I continue to be impressed with his professionalism, knowledge, work ethic, responsiveness, commercial awareness and his attitude to always tackle the difficult problems together. I have recommended Hiroki and his group to numerous clients, business associates and friends of mine and everyone has always valued the introduction.’

‘Hiroki Sugita is very knowledgeable and insightful. Compared to many domestic Japanese attorneys I have worked with, I appreciate that he is flexible, direct, and open.’

‘Seamless service across regional boundaries.’

‘Good and candid communication.’

‘Excellent advice for not only regal issues but also business negotiation.’

‘Flexibility for making contracts. Japanese and English communication.’

‘Depth of experience in international transactions involving Japanese entities.’

‘Understanding of how Japanese companies operate which is invaluable when providng legal advice and planning.’

‘Dale Araki has been assisting my organization with legal matters since the 1990’s. This longstandng relationship is due to his communication skills (not merely his ability to speak Japanese), agressive negotiation style and skill, and of course his likeable personality.’

‘Mayer Brown is a global law firm with a great reach to many legions. Given the wide coverage, it will be a one-stop solution for many clients.’

‘Gordon Palmquist can provide a variety of services and is always there for us. He is always promptly responding to any inquiries.’

‘Gordon Palmquist and his team work quite efficiently and effectively with great global teamwork in cross-border M&A transactions. I have been working with Gordon for almost three years to deal with several international M&A transactions. He is one of the best corporate lawyers in Tokyo. He has good knowlge of our industry and has a great problem-solving skill.’

‘Their world-wide network, especially, Japan, USA and central America, helped us in our investment activity timely and appropriately.’

‘They gave us a checklist which describes and explains various important points to be considered in such investment activity helped us a lot. This experience is so valuable for our future similar investment activity.’

‘Extremely commercial – top notched client service.’

‘Effective and practical advice.’