ESTABLISHED IN 1973

Managing Partner: Hiroshi Morimoto
Number of partners: 42
Number of associates: 99 Attorneys
2 Registered Foreign Attorneys（Illinois, U.S.A. ,North Carolina, U.S.A.）
3 Foreign Attorneys（Texas, U.S.A. ,China ,France）
1 Judicial Scrivener
(As of October 2, 2023)
Location of principal office(s) : Osaka, Japan

Key Practice Areas

Corporate, Mergers & Acquisitions, Finance, Securities, Restructuring and Insolvency, Intellectual Property, Information Technology, International Practice, Employment and Labor, Risk Management and Compliance, Antitrust and Competition Law, Consumer Protection, Tax, Administrative Law, Venture Capital and IPOs, Dispute Resolution

Firm Overview

At Kitahama Partners, our core values, handed down from the founders of our firm, are excellence and client satisfaction. Founded in 1973 in Osaka, Japan, Kitahama Partners has offices in Osaka, Tokyo and Fukuoka.

Kitahama Partners is a full service law firm which handles all types of civil, corporate and other legal matters, both international and domestic. We have clients in many different fields and industries, including finance, trading, manufacturing, retail sales, construction, real estate, software, information technology, local government, academia and healthcare.

For many years, our firm has continued to provide our clients with access to highly skilled, experienced professionals in the particular areas of law which correspond to their needs, and Kitahama Partners is recognized as one of Japan’s top law firms because of the quality of our legal services. Additionally, with our extensive experience in international matters, our firm has developed strong relationships with clients outside of Japan as well as Japanese clients with global operations. In essence, our success comes from and is based upon the dedication of our firm’ s attorneys and staff.

In cooperation with our broad network of partner law firms located around the world, our firm handles a wide range of cases in various countries and regions, including North America, South America, Europe, Greater China, South Korea, India, Southeast Asia, Australia, the Middle East, and Russia.

To provide high quality legal services in every case, unimpeded by national boundaries, is our ultimate goal, which each Kitahama Partners attorney strives to achieve on a daily basis, accepting nothing less.