List of Maritime Law Firms in Japan

1997

Established Yamaguchi & Nagahama

2003

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

2011

Established Tokyo Sanno Law Office

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.

We have been commended by the following dominant overseas magazines:
・CORPORATE INTL MAGAZINE "50 BEST LAWYERS in JAPAN"
　(MARITIME LAW）
・LAWYERS WORLD ANNUAL JURISDICTION AWARD 2012
　（ALL PRACTICE AREAS OF LAW）
・LAWYERS MONTHLY LEGAL AWARDS 2012（MARITIME）
・FINANCE MONTHLY LAW AWARDS 2012（MARITIME）
・INTERCONTINENTAL FINANCE MAGAZINE PRESTIGIOUS 2012 M&A AWARDS（M&A）

Yamaguchi Nobuto

Partner.
Arbitrator of Tokyo Maritime Arbitration Commission (TOMAC) of the Japan Shipping Exchange Inc.
Admitted, 1980.
In 1997 he founded Yamaguchi & Nagahama Law Firm.
In 2003 he founded YNM Law Firm, Tokyo, Japan.
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. 

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.
In 2011 she joined Tokyo Sanno Law Office, Tokyo, Japan.

She received her Bachelors of Law from Kyoto University in 1995.

Norihiro Kudo

Associate.

Ryohei Takekoshi

Associate.