About

We provide advice to major domestic and international corporations regarding due diligence, structuring, operation, and dissolution of domestic and cross-border joint ventures and strategic alliances. We also advise on corporate, antitrust, foreign investment, tax and employment law aspects relevant to such transactions. After years of completing these deals, we deliver what clients want most: experienced advice on joint venture strategy, increased deal certainty, risk management in all jurisdictions, and the ability to realize the strategic and economic benefits of the partnership.

Representative Experience

  • Acted for a Japanese food manufacturer in relation to its strategic alliance with a Japanese trading company.
  • Acted for Japanese logistics company on its formation of a joint venture with a Thai consumer goods conglomerate.
  • Advised a Japanese electronics company on a business and capital alliance agreement with a Japanese IT equipment company.
  • Advised a German engineering company on its strategic alliance with a Japanese pharmaceutical company.
  • Acted for a US guitar maker in a capital and business alliance arrangement with a Japanese consumer electronics company to mutually expand their businesses globally.
  • Acted for a Japanese life insurer on its acquisition of an approximately 40% interest in an Indonesian life insurer to form a joint venture partnership with an Indonesian financial institution.