Miura & Partners
Miura & Partners is a law firm in Japan, founded in 2019, with 100 professionals and 144 lawyers listed on its own site. Its practice areas include Competition, Corporate, Employment, Finance.
- Jurisdiction
- Japan
- Founded
- 2019
- Professionals
- 100
- Offices
- 3
- Recognitions
- 7
- Lawyers on file
- 144
- In the news
- 3
Organization
24 practice areas and sectors · 144 lawyers on the firm’s siteHow Miura & Partners is organised, read from the titles and practice areas it publishes for each lawyer. A head is named only where the firm states one; otherwise the partner admitted earliest on record stands first and is labelled so.
Corporate Governance Corporate Governance
86Lawyers
David A. Makman, Masahiro Terada, Tasha A. Yorozu, Mayuko Mase, Kaoru Matsuzawa, Kentaro Minegishi, Naomi Koshi, Ryoichi Kagizaki, Shunichi Kamiya, Aya Hiraiand 75 more
Information Security Information Security
36Lawyers
Kentaro Minegishi, Aiko Kanayama, Shawn Ho, Takashi Kiuchi, Tomotake Matsuda, Yoshie Midorikawa, Akira Higuchi, Masayuki Atsumi, Yoshihiro Nishikawa, Jun Imamuraand 25 more
Litigation and Disputes Corporate Law Disputes
33Lawyers
Kazuo Itazaki, Ryoichi Kagizaki, Shunichi Kamiya, Aya Hirai, Elizabeth P. Shoemaker, Takashi Kiuchi, Yoshie Sakono, Masaki Sekimoto, Yuko Kato, Michelle Carisse S. Baloisand 22 more
Medical and Healthcare Medical and Healthcare
29Lawyers
Hiroshi Shinagawa, Kaoru Matsuzawa, Kazuo Itazaki, Norika Yuasa, Osamu Yamanaka, Tomoe Imado, Anne C. Lew, Akira Higuchi, Seiji Matsuda, Yoshihiro Nishikawaand 18 more
Government Relations Government Relations
26Lawyers
Tasha A. Yorozu, Ronald Mark S. Daos, Satoshi Ikemura, Kaoru Matsuzawa, Naomi Koshi, Aya Hirai, Aiko Kanayama, Ryoko Yamaguchi, Mari Fujii, Yukiko Omuraand 15 more
Intellectual Property Trade Secrets and Unfair Competition
10Lawyers
Yuhei Sakao, Shunsuke Ebihara, Ryota Saito, Aya Odagiri, Hiroyuki Kurahashi, Keita Iwasaki, Shota Eimura, Shun Watanabe, Tomoki Nakamura
Crisis Management Compliance
9Lawyers
Anne C. Lew, Pitch Benjatikul, Kengo Ozaki, Noriko Ikeda, Chiharu Yuki, Yuto Tokoro, Don Uneanong, Takumi Ogura
Mergers and Acquisitions Acquisitions
9Lawyers
Nguyen Tieu My, Yuta Kanai, Ansari Jowen Salim, Chio Kondo, Masahiko Endo, Nagi Hanashiro, Shotaro Kobayashi, Zhiyu Yuan
Competition/Antitrust Competition Laws
8Lawyers
Pitch Benjatikul, Michelle Carisse S. Balois, Daiki Doi, Nagi Hanashiro, Waka Maehira, Zhiyu Yuan, Weijia Zhao
PPP/PFI/Concession PPP/PFI/Concession
8Lawyers
Aya Hirai, Keiko Komatsu, Yoko Ishii, Akira Higuchi, Bernard O. Abad, Michelle Carisse S. Balois, Keita Iwasaki
Crisis Management Fraud Investigation
6Lawyers
Tsuyoshi Omura, Yuko Kato, Ayako Osugi, Daiki Doi, Takayuki Sato
2 of Miura & Partners’s profiles print the firm’s whole practice list rather than the person’s own, so they are left out of the groups above.
18 lawyers list no practice area on the firm’s site; they appear in the list below.
Lawyers
144 on the firm’s own siteNames, titles and practice areas as Miura & Partners publishes them, senior titles first. Each name opens the firm’s own page for that person.
- Aiko KanayamaPartner · admitted 2005Corporate Governance Corporate Governance · Information Security Information Security · Government Relations Government Relations
- Akira HiguchiPartner · admitted 2008Mergers and Acquisitions Acquisitions Private Equity · Corporate Governance Corporate Governance · Medical and Healthcare Medical and Healthcare · Information Security Information Security
- Anne C. LewPartner · admitted 2004Corporate Governance Corporate Governance · Medical and Healthcare Medical and Healthcare · Crisis Management Compliance
- Ansari Jowen SalimPartner · admitted 2025Mergers and Acquisitions Acquisitions · Finance Capital Markets · Litigation and Disputes Corporate Law Disputes
- Atsushi TakasePartner · admitted 2017Finance Financial Regulations · Corporate Governance Corporate Governance · Litigation and Disputes Corporate Law Disputes
- Aya HiraiPartner · admitted 2003Corporate Governance Corporate Governance · Litigation and Disputes Corporate Law Disputes · PPP/PFI/Concession PPP/PFI/Concession · Government Relations Government Relations
- Ayako OsugiPartner · admitted 2024Crisis Management Fraud Investigation · Litigation and Disputes Corporate Law Disputes
- Bernard O. AbadPartner · admitted 2009Tax Law and Wealth Management Tax Litigation · PPP/PFI/Concession PPP/PFI/Concession · Government Relations Government Relations
- Chiharu YukiPartner · admitted 2015Finance Capital Markets Venture Finance · Corporate Governance Corporate Governance · Medical and Healthcare Medical and Healthcare · Crisis Management Compliance
- Daichi ItoPartner · admitted 2018
- David A. MakmanPartner · admitted 1995Corporate Governance Corporate Governance
- Don UneanongPartner · admitted 2025Crisis Management Compliance
- Donovan CheahPartner · admitted 2007
- Elizabeth P. ShoemakerPartner · admitted 2006Intellectual Property Copyrights · Consumer Law Labeling Regulations · Litigation and Disputes Corporate Law Disputes
- Eriko "Elly" BaxterPartner · admitted 2011Mergers and Acquisitions Acquisitions Business Succession
- Haruka MurataPartner · admitted 2008Finance Acquisition Finance
- Hayato KitamuraPartner · admitted 2017Finance Capital Markets Financial Regulations · Corporate Governance Corporate Governance · Medical and Healthcare Medical and Healthcare · Information Security Information Security
- Hiroki KaimotoPartner · admitted 2016Corporate Governance Corporate Governance · Medical and Healthcare Medical and Healthcare
- Hiroshi ShinagawaPartner · admitted 2002Finance Asset Management and Investment Funds · Medical and Healthcare Medical and Healthcare
- Hiroto SugaharaPartner · admitted 2016Corporate Governance Corporate Governance · Information Security Information Security · ESG/SDGs Business and Human Rights
- Hisashi ShibataPartner · admitted 2005Corporate Governance Corporate Governance
- Jose A. Feria Jr.Partner · admitted 1977Corporate Governance Corporate Governance · Consumer Law Transaction Regulations · Government Relations Government Relations
- Jun ImamuraPartner · admitted 2011Mergers and Acquisitions Business Succession Private Equity · Corporate Governance Corporate Governance · Information Security Information Security · Government Relations Government Relations
- Junko ShiokawaPartner · admitted 1995Mergers and Acquisitions Acquisitions Private Equity · Finance Asset Management and Investment Funds · Litigation and Disputes International Disputes · Tax Law and Wealth Management Wealth Management
Directory placements
6 practice areas · read from the publishers’ tablesWhere the directories place Miura & Partners, practice area by practice area, as each table stands on the publisher’s own site. Each cell links to that table. The columns are the same on every page of this site.
Recognition
7 announcementsWhat other publishers have said, as Miura & Partners reports it on its own site, with the lawyers each announcement names. Each entry links to the page where it was read.
The Legal 500Tier 32026
Antitrust and competition: Independent local firms
“The Legal 500 Asia Pacific 2026: Tier 3, Antitrust and competition: Independent local firms, Japan”
The Legal 500’s published tableThe Legal 500Tier 22026
Corporate and M&A: Independent local firms
“The Legal 500 Asia Pacific 2026: Tier 2, Corporate and M&A: Independent local firms, Japan”
The Legal 500’s published tableThe Legal 500Tier 32026
Dispute resolution: Independent local firms
“The Legal 500 Asia Pacific 2026: Tier 3, Dispute resolution: Independent local firms, Japan”
The Legal 500’s published tableThe Legal 500Tier 42026
Intellectual property: Independent local firms
“The Legal 500 Asia Pacific 2026: Tier 4, Intellectual property: Independent local firms, Japan”
The Legal 500’s published tableThe Legal 500Tier 32026
Labour and employment: Independent local firms
“The Legal 500 Asia Pacific 2026: Tier 3, Labour and employment: Independent local firms, Japan”
The Legal 500’s published tableThe Legal 500Tier 22026
Risk management and investigations: Independent local firms
“The Legal 500 Asia Pacific 2026: Tier 2, Risk management and investigations: Independent local firms, Japan”
The Legal 500’s published table
From the Firm
What Miura & Partners has published on its own site lately: news, deals, recognitions and publications. Each links to the firm.
- 【重要】当事務所または当事務所の弁護士を騙った不審メールや詐欺にご注意ください
news · May 2025
In the News
Coverage in which Miura & Partners was named. Each headline links to the publisher.
- Anderson Mori becomes latest Japanese firm to say howdy to Texas
Asian Legal Business · 5 Nov 2026
- Japan’s Miura & Partners opens in Texas
Law.asia · 2 Oct 2026
- Miura & Partners to launch Okinawa office in January 2027
Law.asia · 13 Aug 2026
Sponsored: guides and chapters the firm wrote
Written by the firm. Practice guide chapters are placed with the publishers that carry them, usually for a fee. Listed for the reader’s use; never counted in the firm’s standing.
- 「Chambers Global Practice Guides – White-Collar Crime Japan 2026: Trends and Developments」2026
Sponsored · Published by the firm
- Anti-Corruption 2026: Japan (Trends and Developments)
Sponsored · Chapter written for Chambers Global Practice Guides · Masayuki Atsumi, Yuhei Sakao
- Enforcement of Judgments in Civil and Commercial Matters: Japan
Sponsored · Chapter written for The Legal 500 Country Comparative Guides
- White-Collar Crime 2026: Japan (Trends and Developments)
Sponsored · Chapter written for Chambers Global Practice Guides · Ryota Saito, Shunsuke Ebihara, Yuhei Sakao
Record
- Jurisdiction
- Japan
- Founded
- Not stated
- Entity source
- The firm's own website
- Firm’s site read
- 12 Aug 2026
Read from: headcount · practice areas · phones
On its size, the firm says: “…ill take charge of the matter by assembling professionals from various practice areas. As a new law firm with around 100 professionals, we work together and know each other well. The small size enables us to build the effective teams. Miura & P…”
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