Mr Nobuharu Onishi > 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 / Investment Funds, Capital Markets, Real Estate Investment and Financing, Financial Regulation

Position

Partner

Career

Admitted in Japan (2003). Seconded to Maples and Calder, Hong Kong (2008) and Maples and Calder, London (2009). Partner to Mori Hamada & Matsumoto since 2014.

Languages

English / Japanese

Memberships

Daini-Tokyo Bar Association

Education

Keio University (B.A., 1999); University of Southern California, Gould School of Law (LL.M., 2008).

Lawyer Rankings

Japan > Investment funds: Independent local firms

(Leading individuals: Bengoshi)

Nobuharu OnishiMori 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’.