Financial institutions that are involved in lending and leasing require a thorough knowledge of secured transactions as well as laws that affect lending. Financial institutions are regulated and are required to comply with various federal and state laws. We work with our clients to navigate the intricacies of these areas of the law.

We advise major Japanese media companies based with operations in the U.S. Our work for media companies covers a wide range of issues, including intellectual property, data privacy, transactional, contract matters, and U.S. labor and employment issues.

Buying and/or Developing real estate projects are complex and require working with various service providers including architects, construction manager, and contractors. In the U.S. in major cities, you also have to deal with tenant laws, and city ordinances.

Japanese Shoshas’ main business is buying and selling goods such as chemicals and other raw materials used in a variety of industries. They need to ensure that the agreements they enter into with the buyers and sellers do not include onerous terms including terms that assign liability to the Shosha for product failure and that the seller and the buyer have sufficient resources including product liability insurance to protect the Shosha in case claims are asserted against the Shosha.

We have represented various Japanese manufacturing companies operating in the U.S. For their global operations, manufacturing companies have to consider M&A, alliance and joint ventures, and/or distribution arrangements to meet challenges that may affect their financial health. In such processes, they are sometimes involved with intellectual property rights related issues. also, as their relationship with the vendors inevitably involve multiple layers of supplies/vendor relationship, they are sometimes faced with receivable collection issues. For manufacturing companies employment related issues often come up, including labor union relationship issues.

Buying and/or Developing real estate projects are complex and require working with various service providers including architects, construction manager, and contractors. In the U.S. in major cities, you also have to deal with rigorous tenant laws, and city ordinances. Our attorneys can advise you on various façade of real estate developments.

Information Technology touches every aspect of modern business. Consumer protections laws, anti-competition and deceptive practices laws, and laws that protect individuals’ (consumer or employee) personal information are areas of the law that apply to and impact businesses. Understanding how a business is affected by technological advances and the laws that cover technoloyg and how to comply with these laws is important.