Shanghai

Our Shanghai Representative office (Nagashima Ohno & Tsunematsu Shanghai Representative Office (Japan)) was established in November 2014.

The Shanghai Representative Office is operated by Yu Wakae as Chief Representative, who has a wealth of experience and expertise in handling China-related matters, including working in Beijing for several years, and Keiji Tokujiya as General Representative, who has extensive practical experience in local law firms in Beijing and Taipei . To meet the increasingly advanced and complex needs of our clients regarding their businesses in China, the office strives to offer the highest quality services by closely collaborating with the lawyers in our Tokyo office and local law firms in China.

With the growth of the Chinese economy, overseas expansions by Chinese companies have also been growing at an impressive rate. The firm has a strong practice in each practice area of Japanese law, and many years of extensive experience in providing advice concerning the investments by foreign companies into Japan. Serving as a point of contact in China, lawyers in the Shanghai Representative Office offer advice regarding Japanese law and practice to Chinese companies that are considering making Japanese investments or entering into cooperation with Japanese companies.

Practice Areas of the Shanghai Office

The Shanghai 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;
• antitrust 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.

Related Topics

• 2020.12.15Announcing Keiji Tokujiya joining Shanghai Office
  
• 2020.10.01Yue Zhang joins Nagashima Ohno & Tsunematsu
  
• 2020.01.10Feifei Ji joins Nagashima Ohno & Tsunematsu
  

Lawyers

The Shanghai office is staffed by the following lawyers.

• Yu Wakae
• Keiji Tokujiya
• Hong Li (Not qualified to register and practice as Chinese lawyer due to PRC regulations.)
• Yan Mo (Not qualified to register and practice as Chinese lawyer due to PRC regulations.)
• Feifei Ji (Not qualified to register and practice as Chinese lawyer due to PRC regulations.)
• Yue Zhang (Not qualified to register and practice as Chinese lawyer due to PRC regulations.)