Corporate
Advice on various issues to domestic and foreign corporate clients, including financial institutions, real estate companies, manufacturers and service providers
Advice on store operation to domestic and foreign retailers (including regulations, customer responses, and pricing indication)
Advice on agency, dealership and franchise business (including termination of agency, dealership and franchise agreements, litigation between franchisors and franchisees, provisional dispositions for claims for the surrender of stores)
Guidance on the management of shareholders’ meetings
Advice on the Unfair Competition Prevention Act and trade secrets
Share transfers, business transfers or other mergers and acquisitions
Advice on insolvency or possible insolvency of client’s customer
Litigation / Arbitration
Disputes and litigation regarding the management/control/ownership of a company (including attending board of directors’ meetings, representing clients in litigations and provisional disposition proceedings arguing positions at the board or claiming for the inspection of shareholders lists or accounting records, representing clients in shareholder derivative suits
Various litigation representing domestic and foreign corporate clients (including litigation relating to corporate transactions, and bankruptcy-related cases)
Litigation concerning real estate transactions (including litigation concerning claim for increase or decrease of rent, surrender of property, restoration, request for permission of leasehold transfer and real estate finance)
Litigation between franchiser and franchisee (including provisional disposition claiming for surrender of stores)
Startup Business Support
Advice on operation, management and capitalization strategy
Advice on startup finance
Advice on shareholder agreements, joint venture agreements, and investment agreements
Advice on stock options
Real Estate
Advice on various matters concerning large-scale real estate development
Advice on various matters concerning building leases and land leases (including subleases)
Advice on various matters involved in the leasing of premises for opening stores in shopping malls and free standing stores
Advice on early termination of leases
Advice on cancellation of negotiations on opening stores
Advice on real estate brokerage
Advice on Real Estate Specified Joint Enterprise Act
Finance / Securitization
Real estate finance (including real estate securitization)
Litigations concerning real estate finance
Compliance / Corporate Governance
Advice on corporate governance and compliance
Advice on corporations’ internal control systems
Outside member of compliance committee of an asset management company for listed REITs and member of compliance committee of investment management business operators/specified joint real estate enterprises
