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January 19, 2025
City-Yuwa Partners and our lawyers are recommended in the Legal 500 Asia Pacific 2025.

The Legal 500 Asia Pacific 2025 recommends City-Yuwa Partners as a Leading Firm in the following 11 areas:
- Antitrust and Competition (Tier 3)
- Banking and Finance (Tier 2)
- Corporate and M&A (Tier 4)
- Dispute Resolution (Tier 2)
- Labour and Employment (Tier 2)
- Private wealth (Tier 3)
- Projects and Energy (Tier 3)
- Real Estate and Construction (Tier 3)
- Risk Management and Investigations (Tier 3)
- Shipping (Tier 3)
- TMT (Tier 4)
Seven individuals are recommended as Leading Lawyers in the following areas:
- Banking and Finance: Masamichi Sakamoto, Reiko Yoshida, Kenta Ikebe
- Corporate and M&A: Noriko Higashizawa
- Dispute Resolution: Yoko Maeda
- Labour and Employment: Noriko Higashizawa
- Private Wealth: Hitomi Sakai
- Projects and Energy: Masamichi Sakamoto
- Real Estate and Construction: Yoshiko Koizumi, Masamichi Sakamoto
- Shipping: Reiko Yoshida
One individual is recommended as a Next Generation Partner:
- Banking and Finance: Gen Takizawa
Further recommendation for the following 25 lawyers:
- Banking and Finance: Junko Hirakawa, Masamichi Sakamoto, Reiko Yoshida, Gen Takizawa and Kenta Ikebe
- Corporate and M&A: Noriko Higashizawa, Daisuke Terasaki and Yoshikazu Suzuki
- Dispute Resolution: Shigeaki Itoh, Hideo Ozaki, Masaaki Sawano, Tomohiro Tanamura and Yoko Maeda
- Labour and Employment: Noriko Higashizawa, Akira Nagasaki, Tetsuya Munakata and Kosuke Hasegawa
- Private Wealth: Shigeaki Itoh, Hitomi Sakai and Shotaro Aoki
- Projects and Energy: Masamichi Sakamoto and Yukinori Sasaki
- Real Estate and Construction: Yoshiko Koizumi, Junko Hirakawa, Shigeaki Itoh, Izuru Goto and Masamichi Sakamoto
- Risk Management and Investigations: Michio Masaki and Kentaro Sadahiro
- Shipping: Reiko Yoshida
- TMT: Arata Nomoto and Yumiko Aoi
For more details, please refer to L500 | Japan | Law firm and lawyer rankings from Legal 500 Asia Pacific guide