Awards
Selected in the Corporate Governance and Compliance Practice and the Real Estate Law practice area in The Best Lawyers™ in Japan 2022 (April 2021)
Selected in the Corporate Governance & Compliance practice area and the Real Estate practice area, in The Best Lawyers™ in Japan 2020 (April 2019)
Introduced as “recommended for real estate litigation” in the Dispute resolution practice area, and as “recommended” in the Real estate and construction practice area, in Legal 500 Asia Pacific 2018 (November 2017)
Recommended individual in the real estate sector in the
Legal 500 Asia Pacific 2015 (November 2014)
Recommended individual in the real estate sector in the Legal 500 Asia Pacific 2014 (November 2013)
Major Practice Area
Corporate
Advice on various issues to domestic and foreign corporate clients, including financial institutions, real estate companies, retailers, manufacturers and service providers
Advice on corporate governance and compliance
Advice on agency, dealership and franchise business
Guidance on the management of shareholders’ meetings
Litigation / Arbitration
Various litigations representing domestic and foreign corporate clients (including litigations relating to corporate transactions, shareholder derivative suits, bankruptcy-related actions and antitrust actions)
Litigations concerning real estate transactions (including litigations concerning claim for increase or decrease of rent, surrender of property, restoration and real estate finance)
Litigations between franchiser and franchisee in franchise business (acting on behalf of franchiser)
Real Estate
Advice on various matters involved in the leasing of downtown offices
Advice on various matters involved in the leasing of premises for opening stores in shopping malls and free standing stores
Finance / Securitization
Real estate finance (including real estate securitization)
Litigations concerning real estate finance
Compliance / Corporate Governance
Advice on corporations’ internal control system
Outside member of compliance committee of an asset management company for listed REITs and member of compliance committee of an investment manager
Publications
“Practical measures for the Amended Real Estate Specified Joint Enterprise Act – in Real Estate Securitization Business” (under joint authorship, Taisei Publishing Co., Ltd., 2014)
Articles, etc.
“Issues Concerning Request for Business Suspension and Lease Agreements for Commercial Establishments/Office Buildings, etc. in Relation to COVID-19 (Part II)” (BUSINESS LAWYERS, April 30, 2020)
“Issues Concerning Request for Business Suspension and Lease Agreements for Commercial Establishments/Office Buildings, etc. in Relation to COVID-19 (Part I)” (BUSINESS LAWYERS, April 24, 2020)
“Series – Considerations for the lease of real property at a shopping center, No. 4: Legal Liability in Case of Cancellation of Store Opening Negotiation” (“BUSINESS LAWYERS,” November 2017)
“Series – Considerations for the lease of real property at a shopping center, No. 3: Matters that a lessor should note when signing a lease” (“BUSINESS LAWYERS,” February 2017)
“Series – Considerations for the lease of real property at a shopping center, No. 2: Matters that a tenant should note when signing a lease” (“BUSINESS LAWYERS,” September 2016)
“Series – Considerations for the lease of real property at a shopping center” (“BUSINESS LAWYERS,” July 2016)
“Preparation of Internal Control System that Would Make Compliance Fully Functional” (January 2012 issue of the monthly magazine “The Lawyers“)
“Schedule of the Companies Act” (June 2006 issue of “Business Homu” magazine (CHUOKEIZAI-SHA, INC.))
“Key Points in Operating the Board after Enforcement of the Companies Act” (May 2006 issue of “Business Law” magazine (CHUOKEIZAI-SHA, INC.))
Lectures Given
“Practical points for outside directors to note in relation to minutes of board meetings” (Japan Corporate Governance Network, May 23, 2013)
“Latest Trend of Third Party Allocation: New Rule of Fund Raising: Through Implementation of Statutory Disclosure” (Financial Management Forums, Inc., September 24, 2009)
“Problems with Cutting-Edge Fund Raising by Issuance of Share Options and Class Shares and Countermeasures against Them – Points to Note in Designing and Using such Fund Raising Based on Recent Trends of Judicial -Precedents” (Financial Management Forums, Inc., May 29, 2007)
