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Foreign Investment in Japan

If you have visited Japan, you might feel it’s exciting to see exotic and unique culture. While, you might face difficulty when you start business in Japan since it’s almost always done in Japanese language when you want to have legal explanation, government instruction, and negotiation with your business partners sometime.

And you might feel that speed of negotiation is relatively slower than other countries’s one when you negotiate with Japanese companies. In that case, it could be the time to have a Japanese lawyer to have legal support for your negotiation.

In Japan, there are around forty-thousand lawyers called “Bengoshi” out of 125 million population. Most of them have their specialities. It’s not easy to reach out to the right lawyers who could provide corporate legal service in English with US qualification.

Hattori Law is a business legal professional firm located in Tokyo to support your business in English. We will strongly support you to move forward.


Cross Border Business Negotiation

When you have Japanese business partners, it is great to have a Japanese business lawyer based in Tokyo as a contact point since a Japanese business lawyer knows about Japanese business culture, way of thinking, and how Japanese companies reacts to your proposal in the course of negotiation.

Hattori Law will support your business negotiation with Japanese companies to make it done.


Compliance, SDGs, Crisis Management

Compliance and SDGs are some of the hottest topics lately. Investors are keen to see how corporate activities are devoted to regulatory compliance and SDGs. Companies sometimes face unescapable crisis even though they have prepared beforehand.

It is important to deal with those to prepare sufficient clear explanation to third parties. If those issues become highlighted on the Internet, mass media, and so forth, it might become difficult to sell your business or borrow money from financial institutions.

Shingo Hattori had a fact finding training under The Legal Training and Research Institute of the Supreme Court of Japan. We will support to solve your issues sufficiently.


Real Estate Development

Real Estate Development requires many kinds of legal documents. Starting from NDA, MOU, Due Diligence respectively, it’s necessary to execute Sales and Purchase Agreement, incorporate SPC, and execute Joint Venture Agreement.

While, it’s indispensable to check those carefully even though speed of transaction is important. It is great to have a record of negotiation by MOU for your business record.

In Japan, real estate transaction is registered by the government. It’s called “Toki”. Then, we could see who is a proprietor of the real property.

Hattori Law supports to add legal insight to your Real Estate Development projects.


Hospitality Business

Hotel Business requires hotel operators, investors, and a plenty of other business partners. Hotel investors require to know how it works and to predict what will happen.

Shingo Hattori has experiences to review preliminary service agreement, management contracts between hotel operators and owners, and other contracts for hotel operation.

Hattori Law support your hospitality business with great business and legal expertise.


Renewable Energy

Renewable Energy is a gem for Japan because Japan had serious nuclear power plant accident in 2011. While, as time goes on, there are some discussions about environmental impact of renewable energy projects. Energy projects have stake holders like residents around the projects.

Shingo Hattori is catching up the latest topics of environment preservation matters as a vice chair of Environmental Preservation Committee at Daini Tokyo Bar Association, which is one of the largest bar associations in Japan. We will support your projects not solely from legal issues but also from its various impacts.


Due Diligence

When you have an intention to invest to a specific company or to prepare for Initial Public Offering, it’s indispensable to do Legal Due Diligence beforehand, to provide sufficient information for appropriate business judgment to decide whether to do investment or not.

Legal Due Diligence is the process of gathering, analyzing, and reviewing legal risks associated with the business. Even if the business is going well on its face, that’s not the only thing. The more you check, the more you will find out.


Investment to Bangladesh

For Japanese company wanting to expand their business to Bangladesh

Bangladesh has over 170 million population and its 70% people are from fifteen years old to sixty years old. The average age is just 24 years old. Bangladesh is emerging young country with a plenty of labor force. It’s prospected that Bangladesh keeps growing for a long time.

Primary industry of Bangladesh is clothing, sewn products, and agriculture. Bangladesh ranked second just after China for exporting clothes to foreign countries in accordance with World Trade Statistical Review by WTO in 2022. In recent years, we can see cloth tags written “Made in Bangladesh” in Japan frequently.