{"id":5334,"date":"2025-12-19T16:45:39","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T07:45:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southgate-law.com\/?p=5334"},"modified":"2025-12-19T18:59:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T09:59:13","slug":"5334","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southgate-law.com\/en\/news\/202512-5334\/","title":{"rendered":"2026 Chambers Asia-Pacific Ranks southgate\/Eric Marcks\/Akira Kawashiro for Corporate and M&amp;A"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The 2026 Chambers Asia-Pacific guide ranked southgate as one of the top firms in Japan in its Corporate\/M&amp;A (Domestic) category, marking the ninth year in a row we have received this honor. The guide also ranked Eric Marcks for the eighth year in a row among top international lawyers in Japan in the category of Corporate\/M&amp;A (International) and Akira Kawashiro for the second year in a row as an Up and Coming lawyer in Japan in the category of Corporate\/M&amp;A (Domestic).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Clients observed that:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>\u201cThey always provide additional value, not only by performing the tasks we ask of them perfectly, but also by proactively pointing out potential risks that we are not aware of.\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>\u201cTheir extensive experience in M&amp;A and capital markets laws and regulations, as well as the accuracy of their advice and the speed of their responses, are their major strengths.\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>\u201cIt is a firm that has a quality comparable to that of major law firms and is highly trusted by clients.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Clients also noted that Eric is \u201c<em>the best lawyer I have worked with,<\/em>\u201d while Akira Kawashiro is \u201c<em>regarded as a very competent and high-performing lawyer.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Details are available at the Chambers Asia-Pacific website:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/chambers.com\/legal-rankings\/corporate-ma-domestic-japan-8:2271:119:1?l=en-GB\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Corporate\/M&amp;A: Domestic, Japan, Asia-Pacific | Chambers Rankings<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/chambers.com\/legal-rankings\/corporate-ma-international-japan-8:2272:119:1?l=en-GB\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Corporate\/M&amp;A: International, Japan, Asia-Pacific | Chambers Rankings<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2026 Chambers Asia-Pacific guide ranked southgate as one of the top firms in Japan in its Corporate\/M&amp;A (Domestic) category, marking the ninth year in a row we have received this honor. The guide also ranked Eric Marcks for the eighth year in a row among top international lawyers in Japan in the category of  [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southgate-law.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5334","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southgate-law.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5334"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/southgate-law.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5334\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5339,"href":"https:\/\/southgate-law.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5334\/revisions\/5339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southgate-law.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southgate-law.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southgate-law.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}