Takayuki Kihira

Takayuki Kihira is a corporate/M&A partner with Mori Hamada & Matsumoto, one of the largest Japanese law firms having more than 470 lawyers including approximately 70 foreign lawyers with 4 domestic offices (Tokyo, Osaka, Fukuoka and Nagoya) and 6 overseas offices (Beijing, Shanghai, Singapore, Bangkok, Jakarta and Yangon).

Mr. Kihira’s areas of practice include mergers and acquisitions, venture financing and international commercial transactions. He has been selected by various media as a recommended lawyer in corporate and M&A sector in Japan, including Chambers Global (2018) and Chambers Asia-Pacific (2018), where he is noted “He understands the clients’ needs very well and gives them well-considered logical and practical solutions.” His firm has consistently been ranked at the top of the M&A league tables prepared by various media companies, including a first-place ranking as the legal adviser on mergers and acquisitions in Japan in the 2017 M&A league table of Thomson Reuters.

Since 2015, Mr. Kihira has been teaching a course “Global M&A Practice” as an adjunct professor of law at Cornell Law School in the U.S. He has also lectured for University of St.Gallen Executive M.B.L.-HSG (in cooperation with Waseda University) on “M&A: A Japanese Perspective” (2013, 2015-2017). His recent publications include “Corporations and Partnerships in Japan” Second Edition (Wolters Kluwer Law & Business (2016)) and “Chambers Global Practice Guides Corporate M&A Japan 2017” Chambers & Partners (2017).

Mr. Kihira is qualified to practice law in both Japan and New York. During 2006-2007, he worked with the international law firm of Shearman & Sterling LLP in New York.