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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