As you may know, Japanese government is now implementing various measures to attract more investments from foreign countries. Meantime, almost all of the transactions and government procedures are be done in Japanese. When you file real estate transaction for registration to Japanese government, you need Japanese version of the contract. But I know it’s tough to read it since Japanese has three characters, Chinese character, Hiragana, and Katakana. And there is less opportunity to learn those at school.
When you would like to check title of real property or talk with landlord, almost everything will be done in Japanese, too. You can use translators for quick references. It works in some cases. On the other hand, you want to check something more precisely to understand SPC’s status.
I guess you might have a Japan deal from your co-investors or friends. You can ask them about your questions. While you might think that it’s necessary to have external legal advisor for real estate investment who is independent from the co-investors to appraise the deal.
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However, it’s not easy to reach out to the right person for you since there are not many lawyers in Japan comparing with North American countries. There are so few English-speaking lawyer in Japan. Moreover, if you narrow candidates to investment corporate legal professionals, it’s quite few.
If the deal is huge, you might visit Big laws to have legal advice. That’s fine. While, even if you’re a huge company but the project is new-showcase one, you need a small international law firm for your deal.
Hattori Law was founded to provide more options for foreign investors in Japan. Previously, Big laws are almost only options for foreign investment. We’d like to change it since there are various kinds of deals and those legal advisors should be diverse.
We are doing our best to make Japan open to foreign investment and heading for becoming a contact point as a Tokyo-based lawyer.
Hattori Law is an international business law firm based in Tokyo. Its founder, Shingo Hattori, Esq has double licensed attorney at law admitted in Japan and America and is accustomed to the North American deals. He holds LLM at University of California, Los Angeles School of Law. He is a member of US Japan Council, America-Japan Society, and Canadian Chamber of Commerce in Japan. He oversaw Hotel and Service apartment projects in Mexico and visited there many times. Therefore, he has an insight to think deeply and enable you to accelerate your projects with good understanding of Japanese laws.
Hattori Law welcomes all of you who want to invest to Japan.
FAQs
International lawyer is defined as a lawyer dealing with cross border case in Japan. Some of them have been admitted as an attorney at law not only in Japan but also in the United States, and so forth.
International law firm is defined as a law firm primarily dealing with cross border case in Japan.
Quick response and its preciseness should be the key for the best international law firm. It’s necessary to collect and select appropriate information for legal business judgment from limited resources in international business world. If the law firm responds quickly and correctly, the law firm should be the best international law firm for you.
It doesn’t matter whether the law firm has expertise in specific practice areas. Rather than that, various ranking firms weigh rankings in each practice areas.
The international law firm provides service to organize your business scheme, draft contracts, or negotiate with business counterparts for cross border deals. Sometimes, the firm cooperate with local law firms for providing appropriate legal service.
If you expand your business from foreign countries to Japan, you may have a plenty of trouble because of the differences of regulations, language, and so forth. If you have international law firm in Japan for your business, the firm will provide you sufficient explanation for business progress since they have plural viewpoint, meaning, Japanese viewpoint and foreign viewpoints.
It really depends while if the law firm has an international lawyer with law degree and legal qualification in US with experiences to deal with cross border business, the law firm should have sufficient experience to deal with international legal matters.
It will speak in Japanese and English. In Japan, almost everything should be done in Japanese. If you don’t feel any stress speaking in English with your lawyer, the lawyer should be a nicer choice for you.
It has easy access to legal updates regarding cross border legal developments via international lawyer’s organization, and so forth.
What is the approach of the best international law firm in Japan when it comes to communication and client service?
Hourly rate fee arrangement is a typical way at Hattori Law.