ASIA Practice Group
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Practice Areas

The Shanghai Representative Office provides our assistance in a wide range of fields such as:

• M&A and group restructurings, and merger filings;
• Consideration of investment schemes and negotiation for the establishment of joint ventures and local subsidiaries;
• Competition law matters, including cartel, resale price maintenance and antitrust investigations;
• Intellectual property matters, including licensing and anti-counterfeiting strategies;
• Compliance matters;
• Labor and employment matters, including the establishment of working regulations and disputes;
• Dispute resolutions, including arbitration;
• Cross-border loans, factoring, structured finance/securitization and other financing instruments;
• Advice on the investments by Chinese companies into Japan.

Practice Areas

The Singapore Office has two main divisions: (i) Corporate & M&A and (ii) International Dispute Resolution. The Corporate M&A Division handles various matters, including cross-border M&A, joint venture formation, misconduct and crisis management, real estate development and investment projects, energy and infrastructure projects, finance, labor issues, and competition law in Asian countries. The International Disputes Division handles a wide variety of cross-border disputes, focusing on international arbitration cases, which have increased in recent years in Singapore, widely recognized as a dispute resolution hub in Asia.

Practice Areas

The Bangkok office provides a wide range of legal services to Japanese and other multinational companies in relation to business expansion in Thailand, including the establishment of local subsidiaries, joint venture, mergers and acquisitions, real estate development, infrastructure and energy related matters, sustainability, compliance, labor law issues, crisis management, debt collection, anti-competition matters and dispute resolutions. The office also provides Japanese, Thai and other multinational corporate clients with legal services on investment projects in neighboring countries, including Malaysia, Laos, Cambodia and the Philippines.

Practice Areas

The HCMC office provides a wide range of legal services on matters regarding business expansion into Vietnam, infrastructure projects, investment, labor issues, anti-corruption law issues, and so forth.

Practice Areas

We provide legal services mainly in the following fields in Jakarta:

・M&A (due diligence and closing support in cross-border investment transactions)
・Corporate (general shareholders meetings, labor matters, and administrative matters related to permits and licenses, etc.)
・Compliance (advice on anti-bribery regulations, investigation of misconducts and crisis management, etc.)
・Dispute Resolution (debt collection, bankruptcy cases, etc.)