Anderson Mori & Tomotsune fields a team with a broad range of expertise, including fraud, bribery, and cartel matters, with experience handling internal and governmnent investigations as well as both criminal complaints and criminal defense. Co-heads Kazuhilo Kikawa, Yoshihiro Kai and Hidetaka Miyake all have backgrounds as public prosecutors, and provide a foundation of expertise in crisis management, corporate compliance and litigation. Kazuo Sakakibara joined the firm in November 2021 as an Of Counsel, and brings significant experience in bribery regulations, information leakage, and government investigations.

Mori Hamada & Matsumoto has a long history of expertise across crisis management and investigations, with a significant history of advising major domestic and international clients across the full range of matters. Areas of strength include unfair competition, insider trading, accounting irregularities, and bribery and corruption. Yasuhiko Fujitsu, whose focus is capital markets related matters such as insider trading and market manipulations, co-leads the department alongside cross-border risk management and investigation expert Hideaki Umetsu. Also co-leading is Hiroshi Yamauchi, who handles risk management and dispute resolution, with particular expertise in external and internal investigations and criminal matters. Hiromasa Arai and Suguru Miyata are also noted.

Nagashima Ohno & Tsunematsu has particular strength in representing regulatory and complicance cases with cross-border elements, with an aptitude for investigations, crisis management, and litigation with international scope. The sizable team contains a diverse set of former judges, prosecutors, accountants, governement officials, and PR specialists, equipped for a broad range of situations. Takayoshi Tao leads the department, and has particular expertise in financial and securities regulations, accounting fraud, and third party investigations. Core team members include Daisuke Fukamizu, whose practice is concentrated on white-collar crime, regulatory compliance, and crisis management, senior counsel Hideaki Kobayashi, who is highly experienced in coporate crisis cases, and Ayumi Fukuhara, who specialises in representing clients facing cross-border investigations involving domestic and foreign regulatory authorities.

Nishimura & Asahi handles a broad range of corporate crises, including investigations by government authorities, securities and financial fraud, white-collar crime, and foreign corrupt practices, as well as any other misconduct for which corporations may be held accountable. The department is able to handle responses to investigations, dealing with stock exchanges, responses to government and municipal offices, and communications with the media. Leading the team is Hiroshi Kimeda, whose focus is on corporate crisis management and litigation, with broad experience in corporate scandal cases. Also key are criminal investigations specialist Kei Umebayashi, Kaku Hirao, who has a history of matters involving foreign investigations and regulatory authorities, and Tomoyuki Numata, whose practice covers corporate crisis cases, as well as international cartels and unilateral anticompetitive conduct.

Atsumi & Sakai‘s team includes former public prosecutors, qualified CPAs, and criminal defense attorneys, and has strength in advising international clients due to its go-to team of foreign partners. Co-leading the department are Masahito Fukuda, who leads the white-collar crime team, Makoto Nakano, a former policy planning officer at the Consumer Affairs Agency who joined the firm in 2021, and Tetsuro Takeda, who was a public prosecutor prior to joining in 2020. Kohei Murakawa is also key, and specialises in domestic and international dispute resolution.

Miura & Partners fields an experienced team with a record of handling internal investigations and crisis management both within Japan and internationally. Takashi Kiuchi has expertise in financial regulations, and benefits from a history as a Financial Services Agency investigator. Ryoko Yamaguchi focuses on securities fraud investigations and tax cases, while Yuhei Sakao, who joined from Nagashima Ohno & Tsunematsu in 2021, covers compliance and risk management.

Oh-Ebashi LPC & Partners specialises in investigations on large scale accounting scandals and data falsifications. The department is co-led by Ko Matsui, who handles foreign direct investments and cross-border disputes, Norihiro Sekiguchi, whose focus is corporate governance and disputes, and Shingo Yamada, who has experience in a range of relevant matters, including product liability and corporate investigation.