List of Maritime Law Firms in Japan

1997

Established Yamaguchi & Nagahama

2003

Merged with Mizuno Sogo Law Office and inaugurated YAMAGUCHI, NAGAHAMA & MIZUNO

Our shipping practice areas include legal issues required to vessels from shipbuilding to be scrapped, namely shipbuilding contract, ship finance, sale and purchase agreement, charter agreement, B/L, salvage, registration of vessels and/or mortgages on vessels, ship insurance, correction of claims against vessels and protection therefrom, legal procedures of attachment etc. of vessels, litigations and arbitrations relating to maritime affairs. Other practice areas are corporate law, merger & acquisition, international transactions and other international and domestic legal affairs of world wide companies.

*Nagahama Takashi

Partner.
Admitted to the Tokyo Bar Association in 1975.
Mr. Nagahama specializes in litigation, Corporate law, and Bankruptcy.
From 1975 to 1997 Mr. Nagahama practiced at Matsuo & Kosugi in Tokyo, Japan.
From 1979 to 1980 he trained at Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy in New York, USA.
In 1997 he founded Yamaguchi & Nagahama Law Firm.
In 2003 he founded YNM Law Firm, Tokyo, Japan.
Mr. Nagahama has been a Counselor to the Tokyo Chamber of Commerce’s Export and Import Bureau since 1986.
Mr. Nagahama received his LL.B in Public Law and LL.B in Political Science from the University of Tokyo, Faculty of Law.
He received his LL.M from University of Washington School of Law in 1979.

*Yamaguchi Nobuto

Partner.
Arbitrator of Tokyo Maritime Arbitration Commission (TOMAC) of the Japan Shipping Exchange Inc.
Admitted, 1980.
Education: Waseda University, LL.B, Legal Trading & Research Institute of the Supreme Court of Japan, University of Washington School of Law, LL.M, Visiting Scholar at Harvard Law School.
Member: Daiichi Tokyo bar association.
LANGUAGES: Japanese, English
Used to be a partner of Braun, Moriya, Hoashi & Kubota Law Office in Tokyo. Used to be an Arbitrator at Tokyo Summary Court
PRACTICE AREAS: Litigation and arbitration, International transactions, Corporation, Joint venture, Finance, Government and administrative relations, Medical law & Pharmaceutical law, Merger & acquisition, Security regulations. 

*Mizuno Taeko Tada

Partner.
Admitted to the Tokyo Bar Association in 1982.
Admitted to the New York Bar Association in 1989.
Mrs. Mizuno specializes in Corporate Law, Commercial Transactions, and Mergers & Acquisitions (Domestic and International).
From 1982 till 1999 she practiced at Matsuo & Kosugi in Tokyo, Japan.
From 1987 till 1988 she trained at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom in New York, USA.
In 1999 she founded Mizuno Sogo Law Office, Tokyo, Japan.
In 2003 she founded YNM Law Firm, Tokyo, Japan.
Mrs. Mizuno earned her Bachelors of Law from the University of Tokyo in 1978.
She received her LL.M. from the University of California, Berkeley, Boalt School of Law in 1987.

*Ohba Yumi

Associate.
Admitted to the Tokyo Bar Association in 1997.
From 1997 till 2005 she practiced at Asuka & Kyouwa Law Firm, Tokyo, Japan.
In 2005 she joined YNM Law Firm, Tokyo, Japan.
She received her Bachelors of Law from Kyoto University in 1995.

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