Special Recognition

• The Legal 500, Asia Pacific 2025 – Recommended - Corporate and M&A, Real estate and construction, Restructuring and insolvency
• asialaw Leading Lawyers 2024/25 – Notable practitioner - Corporate and M&A

Key Qualifications

Seiji Akimoto is a Partner at Chandler Mori Hamada. His primary areas of practice are corporate and mergers & acquisitions and reorganizations, and he specializes in cross-border mergers & acquisitions. He has abundant experience handling corporate acquisitions and investments involving companies located in countries across the globe, especially those in Asia. He has written extensively on mergers & acquisitions and related legislation in Asia, notably “The Foreign Exchange and Foreign Trade Law” (The 2010 Guide to Japan edited by IFLA).

Background

• University of Chicago Law School (LL.M., 2008)
• The University of Tokyo (LL.B., 1999)

Qualification

• Admitted in New York State, 2009
• Admitted in Japan, 2002

Membership

• Member of New York State Bar Association, 2009
• Member of Daini Tokyo Bar Association, 2002