Our
recent experiences related to helping American companies doing
businesses in Japan include the following:
- Represented a Seattle-based IT company with advanced data storage
technologies in its expansion to Japan. We assisted the company with
the organization of a Japanese subsidiary, finding office space,
retaining local professional service firms, executing agreements
with local agents. We also advised various international
business, tax and employment issues.
- Represented a local bank in Seattle in its joint venture with a Hong
Kong investment company to provide services to corporate and individual
customers in Japan. We advised structure, formation and operation
of the JV that is in the business of foreign currency trading. We
also negotiated the JV agreement.
- Represented a publicly traded U.S. Internet/computer security company
in its internal reorganization in Japan and joint venture with the
largest Japanese trading company to provide services in Japan and
other Asian countries. We advised the structure of the reorganization
and the JV.
- Represented a publicly traded global publisher of print and electronic
products based in New Jersey in its expansion of Japanese
operation.
We analyzed and advised various issues associated with the formation
and operation of the Japanese entity, including transferring
of U.S. employees to Japan and hiring of local employees and contractors.
- Represented a publicly traded domestic-products and publishing company
based in New York in its expansion to Japan. We analyzed and advised
various issues associated with the formation and operation
of the Japanese entity.
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