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Anderson Mori & Tomotsune

Comprehensive Japanese law firm advising on domestic and international legal matters.

🇯🇵 Otemachi Park Building, 1-1-1 Otemachi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 100-8136, Japan · Founded 1952

EstablishedLegal servicesCorporate law and M&AFinance and capital marketsDispute resolutionIntellectual property

Anderson Mori & Tomotsune is a law firm headquartered in Tokyo. It traces its history to 1952, when James Buell Anderson opened a law office in Tokyo, and took its current name in 2005 through the merger of Anderson Mori and Tomotsune & Kimura. The firm reports 786 professionals as of September 1, 2026, and covers 20 practice areas, from corporate and M&A to finance, disputes, tax and intellectual property. It works from Tokyo, Osaka and Nagoya and from locations across Asia and Europe.

Open to

  • Hiring

The firm's site links to separate careers pages for attorneys and for staff.

Services

Service

Corporate and M&A

Legal advice on corporate matters and mergers and acquisitions, including competition and international trade issues.

  • Corporate and M&A
  • Competition / antitrust and international trade
  • Labor and employment, tax, wealth management
Service

Finance, capital markets and real estate

Legal advice on capital markets, finance and financial institutions, real estate, and energy and natural resources.

  • Capital markets
  • Finance and financial institutions
  • Real estate, energy and natural resources
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Disputes, investigations and technology

Dispute resolution, government investigations and crisis management, restructuring, and intellectual property and technology work.

  • Dispute resolution, restructuring / insolvency and bankruptcy
  • Government investigations and crisis management
  • Intellectual property, tech / data / IT / telecom, life sciences

Traction

Updated Oct 2026
786professionals as of September 1, 2026
675Japanese qualified lawyers
82non-Japanese qualified lawyers
21patent attorneys
15locations in Japan, Asia and Europe
20practice areas

Team