NEWS

• Awards

High rankings in The Legal 500 Asia Pacific 2026

Iwata Godo and IG lawyers have been highly ranked in The Legal 500 Asia Pacific 2026, across the following fields:
Please see the The Legal 500 webpage for details.

■ Ranking of IG  
Antitrust and competition (Tier3)   
Banking and finance (Tier3)   
Corporate and M&A (Tier3)     
Labour and employment (Tier3) 
Real estate and construction (Tier3)      
      
■Recognized IG laywers 
Leading partners  
Banking and finance: Kashiwagi Kensuke    
Corporate and M&A: Ito Hiroki, Landry Guesdon 
Labour and employment: Fujiwara Hiroki, Landry Guesdon    
Real estate and construction: Kashiwagi Kensuke

• Corporate
• M&A
• Real Estate

• News

India Desk opened in January 2026.

Following the establishment of ASEAN Desk last year, Iwata Godo opened its India Desk this January. We will provide legal services to clients looking to expand their businesses in India, a country with significant potential for future economic growth, in a more agile and robust manner.

India Desk Lawyers: Tago Shinya, Matsuda Akira, Beppu Fumiya, Ikeda Minako

• Global Practice

• Personnel

Adachi Makoto will begin working at Shearn Delamore & Co. in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, in January.

Iwata Godo will further strengthen its cooperative relationships with local law firms in ASEAN countries, including Shearn Delamore & Co., Drew & Napier LLC in Singapore; Makarim & Taira S. in Jakarta, Indonesia, and Tilleke & Gibbins Bangkok Office in Thailand, where our attorneys are assigned, and will provide clients in Japan with a wide range of one-stop legal services.

• Global Practice

• Media

Article of the Global Legal Team was published in "Lawyers Guide 2026"

Publisher：Lawyers Guide 2026

• Global Practice

• Personnel

Nakazawa Ryo, Sasaki Tomoo and Ishikawa Hiroaki were appointed Partners.

• Personnel

Fujinami Tomonori has returned to Iwata Godo after completing his work at the Personal Information Protection Commission.

• Personnel

Fukatsu Haruno returned to Japan and resumed her work at Iwata Godo.

• Media

Comments by Yamada Kohei were published in an article titlled "Mandatory TOB threshold lowered to over 30%".

Publisher：The January 5 Nikkei

• Corporate