Domestic Legal Issues for Companies and Individuals
We provide legal counseling and substantive support for corporate clients in every stage of their business operations, from starting up of a new enterprise, development of domestic operations, to expansion of the business overseas, including foreign corporations’ approach to the Japanese market. We have outstanding track records of working with many corporate clients, large and small, in a variety of industries, including entertainment, IT, apparel, music, sports management, publishing, international trade, and real estate. In doing so, our motto is to stand by the business manager at the same eye level and think together for the best possible solution.
The following are the specific types of services we provide:
We provide services in negotiation, creation and reviewing of all types of commercial contracts, such as a contract to secure a license, a contract for importing and exporting of goods, a contract for a joint venture, etc. Making a good contract is the critical starting point of a successful business. We emphasize the prevention of problems, as much as their solution.
We advise on how the corporate affairs should be governed in compliance with the applicable Japanese regulations so as to prevent disgraceful misconducts and to maximize the corporate earnings. We support corporations’ efforts to discharge their social responsibilities.
We work side-by-side with our clients in creating, examining, analyzing and finally executing their respective business plans from the legal perspective.
We handle familiar day-to-day legal issues such as debt collection, dealing with counterparty risk, and employees management, as well as litigations for breach of contract and compensation for accidents.
We assist our clients’ operational rationalization, succession and revitalization at various stages of their business.
We seek amicable solutions through negotiation as much as possible, but if litigation becomes necessary, we vigorously fight to protect the rights of our clients.
The following are the specific types of services we provide for individual clients:
We represent clients for the settlement of disputes pertaining to divorce, child support, compensation, and parental authority.
We help our clients to solve problems relating to the division of inherited property and reserve. We also help to create a will for preventing disputes in the future.
We support our elderly clients in the management of their property by way of adult guardianship system, mandatary contract, and the like.
We work on solving the problems of real estate, such as border disputes with neighbors and cumbersome issues about land and building leases.
We help those who want to collect debts or those who are debt-laden.
We help those who caused accidents or those who became victims of accidents.