Foreign Investors have to be keen to compliance in the country where the project is located since regulations are always changing. While it’s indispensable to know regulations to avoid risks such as administrative guidance, adverse dispositions, and any other order by government. Understanding regulations in the country is a key to have successful business. If you are not in compliance with regulations, your company reputation will be harmed. If we know those beforehand, we can implement appropriate measures to deal with the situation. All regulations are stipulated in the Laws, Enforcement Regulations, and so forth. It’s indispensable to analyze those regulations with legal professional before you start your business.
Even though you’re carefully following up regulations and taking appropriate actions, Crisis happens suddenly. If Crisis happens to your business in Japan, you have to collect information necessary to deal with the situation as soon as possible to understand where you’re standing.
After the fact-finding and analysis, it’s necessary to implement appropriate measures to deal with the crisis. You may have to negotiate with counterparts, employees, or business partners depending on the situations. There are a plenty of things to do while this process should be speedy, always. I guess you have your legal counsel in your home country. That works well to deal with Crisis. While they could not provide legal insights toward the project which is in Japan if they don’t have an Attorney at Law qualification in Japan. Hence, it’s good to have a contact point in Japan to handle the case. If the Attorney at Law becomes the contact point in Japan, you could have a plenty of information including solid facts, legal analysis to those facts, and thinkable outcome of the Crisis.
Japanese Lawyer, called “Bengoshi” had a fact-finding training at the Legal Training and Research Institute of the Supreme Court of Japan. Bengoshi is good at clarifying “fact” per se, analyze it, and think of the way to deal with it by collecting information from various sources. In case that the case goes to Court, you could have legitimate evidence if you have an Attorney at Law in an early phase.
Especially for Cross Border Investment, comparative law viewpoints should be also indispensable. Therefore, an Attorney at Law qualified in Japan with solid foreign legal practice experience should work very nicely to deal with the Crisis Management.
Hattori Law has various experiences to deal with Crisis Management. When you happen to face the Crisis, you have to see various parties, such as investors, board of directors, and other stake holders. You have to report object facts happening in the Crisis.
We are proficient to handle the Crisis for you with international legal practice experience.