Since Nagashima Ohno & Tsunematsu provides comprehensive legal services to our clients, needless to say, dispute resolution has always been and continues to be one of our major and important practice areas. We represent mostly corporate clients and we have been involved in many high profile, history-making, landmark cases in Japan. We have represented our clients in a wide variety of complex, large-scale, and highly specialized litigation, fully utilizing the depth of our talented lawyers, experience and expertise. Our Litigation Group consists of a team of attorneys who specialize in dispute resolution and our lawyers are recognized as the experts in the field with unparalleled experience for bringing successful results to our clients. The structure of our Litigation Group enables its member attorneys to share their respective expertise and experiences and to function effectively as a team to handle the largest and the most complex of cases.

The scope of the disputes that we handle is as diverse as securities and finance litigation involving complex financial products, all types of commercial litigation matters such as disputes concerning the control of corporate entities, labor disputes in which the interests of employers and employees sharply conflict, extremely technical disputes involving intellectual property, pharmaceutical, product liability and construction law issues, insolvency proceedings including bankruptcy and restructuring proceedings, and disputes involving criminal law issues. Our lawyers not only represent clients before the courts, but also counsel them on how to prevent or avoid litigation. We are of course well experienced in representing our clients in pre-litigation negotiations, collective bargaining with labor unions, quasi-judicial proceedings including the administrative hearings and appeals before the Labor Relations Commission, the Fair Trade Commission, the Patent Office and the Marine Accident Inquiry Agency. Last but not the least, as an international law firm, many of our lawyers have extensive experience in domestic and international arbitration proceedings.

We represent domestic business entities as well as international business entities and their Japanese affiliates. One of our strengths is our ability to communicate with our foreign clients and negotiate with counter parties in English in resolving disputes. Further, we have unmatched experience in actively managing lawsuits and disputes that arise in foreign/multiple jurisdictions in close cooperation with major law firms in those countries. We have developed strong relationships with major law firms around the world to provide seamless service to our clients.