{"id":1837,"date":"2021-12-24T17:05:07","date_gmt":"2021-12-24T08:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southgate-law.com\/?p=1837"},"modified":"2025-05-22T17:36:31","modified_gmt":"2025-05-22T08:36:31","slug":"1224","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southgate-law.com\/en\/news\/202112-1224\/","title":{"rendered":"2022 Chambers Asia-Pacific Ranks southgate\/Mangyo Kinoshita\/Eric Marcks for Corporate and M&#038;A"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 2022 Chambers Asia-Pacific guide ranked southgate as one of the top firms in Japan in its Corporate\/M&amp;A (Domestic) category, marking the fifth year in a row we have received this honor. The guide also ranked Mangyo Kinoshita among top Japanese lawyers in the category of Corporate\/M&amp;A (Domestic) and Eric Marcks among top international lawyers in Japan in the category of Corporate\/M&amp;A (International).<\/p>\n<p>A source observes \u201c<em>[a]s a boutique firm they are very hands on, which gives clients direct access to a partner and offers a high level of responsiveness. Our impression is that they are very commercial and offer very good value for money due to their set-up.<\/em>\u201d A client commented that southgate provides &#8220;<em>excellent, top-quality advice with a quick turnaround, <\/em>&#8221;\u00a0adding: \u201c[<em>t]hey really care about their clients and go the extra mile. <\/em>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Clients compliment Mangyo Kinoshita, saying &#8220;<em>[h]e is very well known and well connected in the market, and appreciated by his clients for his excellent commercial acumen,<\/em>&#8221; and describe Eric Marcks as <em>&#8220;an excellent lawyer&#8221;<\/em> who is <em>&#8220;very experienced in handling cross-border matters.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Details are available at the Chambers Asia-Pacific website:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/chambers.com\/legal-rankings\/corporate-ma-domestic-japan-8:2271:119:1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/chambers.com\/legal-rankings\/corporate-ma-domestic-japan-8:2271:119:1<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/chambers.com\/legal-rankings\/corporate-ma-international-japan-8:2272:119:1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/chambers.com\/legal-rankings\/corporate-ma-international-japan-8:2272:119:1<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eric Marcks speaks on panel at IPBA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southgate-law.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southgate-law.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southgate-law.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southgate-law.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southgate-law.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1837"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/southgate-law.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1837\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4961,"href":"https:\/\/southgate-law.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1837\/revisions\/4961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southgate-law.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southgate-law.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southgate-law.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}