On June 12, 2008, law firms from more than 20 countries gathered at the International Legal Alliance Summit and Awards event in Paris to recognize legal service excellence for M&A and Corporate Finance transactions around the world. The best law firms from the Americas, Europe, Pacific & South Asia, and the Middle East & Africa were in attendance and Japan was welcomed to the event for the first time. Fifteen jury panels of more than 100 senior legal executives drawn from a wide array of industry sectors and including in-house counsels and senior financial executives reviewed applications submitted by the firms to determine one winner of the Gold Award for each region on the basis of results and performance.

Anderson Mori & Tomotsune was privileged and honored to receive the Gold Award for Japan as the Best Law Firm in Japan primarily based on its legal services on M&A and corporate finance transactions in 2006 and 2007.

For full details on the event, please see the following site:

http://www.ilasummit.com