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Big Four (law Firms)
or is a term informally used in Japan to refer to those firms which, collectively, are perceived to be the largest firms headquartered in Japan and distinguished in comparison to their other competitors. The Big Four firms are: * Anderson Mōri & Tomotsune * Mori Hamada & Matsumoto * Nagashima Ohno & Tsunematsu * Nishimura & Asahi Nowadays, the term "Big Five" is also being used to include the fifth-largest firm in Japan, TMI Associates. These are leading law firms in Japanese business law practices and considered to be the top tier. "International firm" In Japanese, the term is used to refer to the Big Four firms and other Japanese law firms that specialize in international business matters. During the years immediately following World War II, several American lawyers established such firms in Japan (e.g. Anderson Mori). Japanese lawyers with international training began establishing international firms in the 1960s, and since regulatory changes in the 1990s, many Japanese l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Largest Japanese Law Firms By Number Of Lawyers
This is a list of the largest law firms in Japan by number of lawyers, including both Japanese and foreign-qualified lawyers, as of November 27, 2013, compiled by Babelstaff K.K. See also *List of largest law firms by revenue *List of largest United States-based law firms by head count *List of largest United States-based law firms by profits per partner *List of largest United Kingdom-based law firms by revenue *List of largest Canada-based law firms by revenue *List of largest Europe-based law firms by revenue *List of largest China-based law firms by revenue References {{reflist Lists of law firms, Japanese Lists of companies of Japan, Law firms Law firms of Japan, * Lists of people-related superlatives, Japan-based law firms ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anderson Mōri & Tomotsune
is one of the " Big Four" law firms in Japan. The firm was founded in July 8, 1952 as O'Gorman, Nattier & Anderson after its three initial partners who were all American attorneys. The firm merged with Shenoh & Mōri in 1961 to form Anderson, Nattier, Mōri & Rabinowitz, which was renamed to Anderson Mōri & Rabinowitz in 1963. The firm changed its name to Anderson & Mōri in 1991 following the departure of partner Richard Rabinowitz, who joined several other Anderson Mori attorneys to form the firm of Tōzai Sōgō in 1994. The firm adopted its present name after merging with Tomotsune & Kimura in 2005; Tomotsune & Kimura was itself an offshoot of the law firm founded by Toshiro Nishimura in 1967, which would eventually become Nishimura & Asahi. Following the collapse of Bingham McCutchen in 2014, 50 of the 60 lawyers at Bingham's Tokyo office joined Anderson Mori in 2015, with the remainder joining the Tokyo office of Morgan, Lewis & Bockius. Anderson operates as a two-tiered ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mori Hamada & Matsumoto
is a law firm in Japan. The firm was founded in 2002 by the merger of Mori Sogo Law Offices and Hamada & Matsumoto. Mori Sogo Law Offices was founded in 1949. It opened offices in Singapore and Yangon. Offices Mori Hamada's main office is in the Marunouchi Park Building in Tokyo. It has domestic branch offices in Fukuoka, Nagoya and Osaka, and overseas offices in Beijing, Shanghai, Singapore and Yangon Yangon ( my, ရန်ကုန်; ; ), formerly spelled as Rangoon, is the capital of the Yangon Region and the largest city of Myanmar (also known as Burma). Yangon served as the capital of Myanmar until 2006, when the military government .... References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Mori Hamada and Matsumoto Law firms of Japan Law firms established in 2002 2002 establishments in Japan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nagashima Ohno & Tsunematsu
is one of the " Big Four" law firms in Japan. It was founded in 2000 upon the merger of Nagashima & Ohno with Tsunematsu Yanase & Sekine. Nagashima & Ohno was founded in 1961 and was considered to be one of the "Big Four" prior to the merger. Tsunematsu Yanase & Sekine was founded in 1987 by a group of lawyers who left the firm of Blakemore & Mitsuki. The firm's clients include Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ, Goldman Sachs, GREE, Japan Airlines, JFE Holdings, LaSalle Investment Management, Mizuho Bank, Nomura Holdings, Renault, Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation, Tokyo Electric Power Company, Tokyo Stock Exchange and Yahoo Japan. NO&T partner Hiroshi Mitoma was voted best corporate lawyer in Japan, and partner Hiroki Inoue was voted best international lawyer in Japan, in a December 2013 ''Nihon Keizai Shimbun'' poll of attorneys and corporate legal departments. NO&T operates as a two-tiered partnership, under which associates become non-equity "junior partners" in their 10th t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nishimura & Asahi
is the largest of the " Big Four" law firms in Japan, as of January 2024, by number of lawyers. History The firm's current form was established in 2007 by the acquisition of the Kokusai Bumon (International Division) of Asahi Law Offices (the former Asahi Koma Law Offices, itself a merger of the Masuda & Ejiri and Komatsu Koma law firms) by Nishimura & Partners (one of the "Big Four" and founded in 1966). The firm is a member of the international legal network Lex Mundi. In August 2012 it opened offices in Nagoya and Osaka to assist clients based outside of Tokyo. Clients and services The Legal 500 ranks N&A as a top tier firm in the fields of antitrust and competition law, banking and finance, capital markets, construction, projects and energy, corporate and M&A, dispute resolution, real estate and structured finance/securitisation. Chambers & Partners ranks the firm as "Band 1" in banking and finance, securitisation and structured finance, corporate and M&A, dispute resolution, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
TMI Associates
is one of the five largest law firms in Japan. The firm was founded in 1990 by ten intellectual property specialists who left the law firm of Nishimura & Partners. It grew quickly in ensuing years, with 33 attorneys as of 1998 and more than 600 domestic and foreign attorneys and patent attorneys as of 2020.https://www.tmi.gr.jp/about/organization.html TMI is headquartered in the Roppongi Hills Mori Tower in Minato, Tokyo, Japan. Its other offices in Japan include Kobe, Nagoya, Osaka, Kyoto and Fukuoka and the firm also has offices in Bangkok, Beijing, Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City, London, Phnom Penh, Shanghai, Silicon Valley, Singapore and Yangon. It opened its first domestic branch office in Nagoya in 2012. It was the first Japanese law firm to open an office in Myanmar. TMI opened an Osaka office in 2018 by acquiring the four-lawyer practice of Isamu Omizu, a former vice chairman of the Osaka Bar Association. The firm has joint ventures with the American law firm of Morgan, Lewi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
World War II
World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers. World War II was a total war that directly involved more than 100 million personnel from more than 30 countries. The major participants in the war threw their entire economic, industrial, and scientific capabilities behind the war effort, blurring the distinction between civilian and military resources. Aircraft played a major role in the conflict, enabling the strategic bombing of population centres and deploying the only two nuclear weapons ever used in war. World War II was by far the deadliest conflict in human history; it resulted in 70 to 85 million fatalities, mostly among civilians. Tens of millions died due to genocides (including the Holocaust), starvation, ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Linklaters
Linklaters LLP is a multinational law firm, headquartered in London, England. Founded in 1838, it is a member of the "Magic Circle" of elite London-headquartered law firms. It currently employs over 5,000 lawyers across 31 offices in 21 countries. In financial year 2020-21, Linklaters achieved revenues of £1.67 billion and profits per equity partner of £1.77 million. In the UK, the firm has top-tier rankings across many practice areas, including corporate/M&A, capital markets, litigation, banking and finance, restructuring and insolvency, antitrust and tax. In 2021, Linklaters was ranked second for the number of FTSE 100 clients. For direct deals by institutional investors in the first half of 2016, Linklaters tied for first place. In the 2021 Global Law Firm Brand Index, Linklaters was named as having the world's fourth strongest brand. History Linklaters was founded in London in 1838 when John Linklater entered into a partnership with Julius Dods. The firm, initially kno ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Baker & McKenzie
Baker McKenzie is an international law firm located in Chicago, Illinois. It was founded in 1949, originally named Baker & McKenzie. It now has 77 offices in 46 countries. It employs 4,809 attorneys total, and approximately 13,000 employees total. The firm took in $3,126,729,000 gross revenue in 2021, thus placing 4th on The American Lawyer's 2022 Am Law 200 ranking. History Co-founding partner Russell Baker, born in Wisconsin and raised in New Mexico, opened his early practice, Baker & Simpson, in Chicago in 1925, following graduation from the University of Chicago Law School. Baker had early exposure to the Spanish language and other cultures, and his firm provided legal services to Chicago's growing Mexican American community. The firm later advised U.S. companies investing in Latin America. In 1949, the firm relaunched with John McKenzie, a litigator who had graduated from Loyola University Chicago School of Law, who took charge of the litigation practice, as Baker buil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
White Shoe Firm
A white-shoe firm is an American term used to describe prestigious professional services firms that have traditionally been associated with the upper-class elite who graduated from Ivy League colleges. The term is most often used to describe leading old-line law firms and Wall Street financial institutions, as well as accounting firms that are over a century old, typically in New York City and Boston. Former Wall Street attorney John Oller, author of ''White Shoe'', credits Paul Drennan Cravath with creating the distinct model adopted by virtually all white-shoe law firms, the Cravath System, just after the turn of the 20th century, about 50 years before the phrase ''white-shoe firm'' came into use. Etymology The phrase derives from " white bucks", laced suede or buckskin (or Nubuck) derby shoes, usually with a red sole, long popular among the student body of Ivy League colleges. A 1953 ''Esquire'' article, describing social strata at Yale University, explained that "White Shoe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Magic Circle (law Firms)
The Magic Circle is an informal term describing the five most prestigious London-headquartered multinational law firms, which generally outperform the rest of the London law firms on profitability. The term has also been used to describe the most prestigious barristers' chambers in London. All of the 'Magic Circle' law firms and barristers' chambers specialise primarily in corporate law. History and evolution The term was coined by legal reporters in the 1990s and is generally considered to include the following five law firms: Allen & Overy; Clifford Chance; Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer; Linklaters; and Slaughter and May. The Magic Circle has been termed a "journalistic device, coined by legal reporters in the wake of the break-up of its predecessor, the 'Club of Nine'". The Club of Nine was an informal group of law firms that comprised Allen & Overy; Clifford Chance; Freshfields (now Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer); Herbert Smith (now Herbert Smith Freehills); Linklate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Red Circle (law Firms)
The Red Circle ("红圈" in Chinese) is an informal term for leading law firms in China that are perceived as prestigious or high-quality, similar to the Magic Circle firms in the UK and white-shoe firms in the US. The term was first used by ''The Lawyer'' magazine in a report in March 2014, which used the term to define eight top-tier law firms in China. The eight firms include: Commerce & Finance (通商), Global Law Office (环球), Haiwen & Partners (海问)Jingtian & Gongcheng(竞天公诚), Jun He Law Offices (君合), King & Wood Mallesons (金杜), Zhong Lun (中伦), in Beijing; and Fangda (方达) in Shanghai. The list was later repeated by ''The Lawyer'' in its 2014 issue of a China-focused legal market report. Since then, it has gained wide popularity within the Chinese legal community as well as law graduates when it comes to recruitment. Although their sizes vary greatly, the Red Circle firms have much higher average revenue per lawyer (RPL), revenue per equity par ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
