City-Yuwa Partners and our lawyers are recommended in the Legal 500 Asia Pacific 2026.

The Legal 500 Asia Pacific 2026 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 5)
• 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)
• Sport (Tier 3)

One individual is recommended as a Hall of Fame:

• Banking and Finance:  Masamichi Sakamoto

Seven individuals are recommended as Leading Partners in the following areas:

• Banking and Finance:  Reiko Yoshida and Kenta Ikebe
• Dispute Resolution:  Yoko Maeda
• Labour and Employment:  Noriko Higashizawa
• Private Wealth:  Hitomi Sakai
• Projects and Energy:  Masamichi Sakamoto
• Real Estate and Construction:  Yoshiko Koizumi and 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:

• Antitrust and Competition:  Teruhisa Ishii, Yoshihiro Sakano and Hiroaki Matsunaga
• Banking and Finance:  Junko Hirakawa, Masamichi Sakamoto, Reiko Yoshida, Gen Takizawa and Kenta Ikebe
• Corporate and M&A:  Daisuke Terasaki, Yoshikazu Suzuki and Hiroshi Matsuda
• Dispute Resolution:  Shigeaki Itoh and Yoko Maeda
• Labour and Employment:  Noriko Higashizawa, Akira Nagasaki, Tetsuya Munakata and Sayako Tsukamoto
• Private Wealth:  Shigeaki Itoh, Hitomi Sakai, Shotaro Aoki and Kaoru Vaheisvaran
• Projects and Energy:  Masamichi Sakamoto and Yukinori Sasaki
• Real Estate and Construction:  Yoshiko Koizumi, Junko Hirakawa, Shigeaki Itoh, Masamichi Sakamoto, Daigo Nomura, Kenta Ikebe, Masumi Watanabe and Kentaro Sawata
• Shipping:  Reiko Yoshida

For more details, please refer to L500 | City-Yuwa Partners > Japan | Legal 500 law firm profiles | Rankings