General Business Law

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Provided by Chuo Sogo LPC

Areas of practice:

Chuo Sogo’s practice is spread fairly evenly between transactional work and litigation / dispute resolution, with its litigators appearing almost daily in courts throughout Japan. The substantive legal areas of the firm’s expertise encompass Corporate and Commercial Law (antitrust, compliance and risk management, corporate governance and matters concerning shareholders meetings, employment law, incorporation and commercial registration, international trade and international transactions, mergers and acquisitions, real estate, unfair competition prevention law), Banking and Finance (bank transactions, security transactions, cross border financial transactions, derivatives transactions, debt collections and execution, litigation arising from financial transactions, FinTech), Insolvency and Restructuring (bankruptcy, civil rehabilitation, corporate reorganization, special conciliation, special liquidation, corporate arrangement, establishment of reorganization plans, negotiations with financers and sponsors), Insurance and Reinsurance Law, and Intellectual Property Law (patent rights, model utility rights, design rights, trademark rights, copyrights, protection of know-how and trade secrets, IT related contracts, IP litigation).