[FEATURES]

(1)　　　　　 Underlined by a real-world experience of over 25 years in the banking business (late of the Mitsubishi Bank, Ltd.'s law department) from deposit-taking to loan officer, to loan-supervisor and to securities market professional (one time secondment to Japan Securities Holdings Partnership).

(2) 　　　　　First in Japan as author on U.S. and English real estate law, pioneering in the legal works of acquisition, mortgage and other financing, development and unitization since 1985 (publication history includes such books as U.S. Real Property Law, Contemporary English Land Law, U.S. Partnership Law, Handbook on International Financial Law).

(3) 　　　　　Blessed with the most solid and prestigious clientele groups which splinter into 3 areas of financial, manufacturing and a property development businesses.

[SPECIALTIES]
　　　　　　　In addition to the general practice including a few sizable litigations as the plaintiffs' lawyers in such as the variable insurance cases, the firm is primarily an international business law firm with shorter history and less well-known than a few mostly foreign-lawyer founded big ones with over fifty lawyers but by no means of lesser capability or competence in certain areas of its practice. The firm's specialities are:

(1) domestic:
　　　　　　　Banking laws (not excluding litigations such as preliminary injunctions, foreclosures and collections) real estate laws, intellectual properties laws, mergers and acquisitions, asset-backed securitization.

(2) International or Cross-Border:
　　　　　　　Mortgage loan, project finance, guaranty and security interest and other credit extension transactions, partnership, joint venture, mergers and acquisitions, licensing, distribution.

[AREAS OF PRACTICE]

(1)　　　　　　documentation of all kinds of loan agreements, agreements for other credit-extensions including syndicated loan agreements, project financing and securities underwriting and securities-backed loan agreements, mortgage, pledge and other securities agreements , guarantee, letter of credit agreements.

(2) 　　　　　documentation of acquisition of real property interest and relative agreements, development, construction and architect design contract.

(3)　　　　　　consultation, advice and representative negotiations on the foregoing matters and on problems concerning broadcasting, information, tele-communication and internet.

Our office is currently stressing on the IP matters. We can enumerate a couple of backgrounds. a) we have a few manufacturing customers whose occasional problems are mostly IP-related. b) we also have Mitsubishi Research Institute as one of the standing clients. As the largest think-tank at home in the natural science they naturally have much to do with the state of the art high-tech issues often with digital or internet implications.

　　　　Now, it was not just the clientele that leads us to the emphasis on IP, although we accede to the criticality of who your client is in determining what your expertise may be, it is the sense of the age that has led us to emphsize the IP law activities.