Toranomon Chuo Law Firm

Practice Areas

General Corporate(drafting and negotiating agreements, advising on how to run meetings of shareholders and board of directors, researching laws and regulations that apply to clients’ new business, negotiating with regulatory authorities, etc.)

We review a wide range of internal and external legal issues and contractual issues that may pose a risk to our clients’ business and provide advice from varied perspectives to avoid such risk.

We also draft and negotiate agreements for transactions that regularly arise in our clients‘ business in a manner that allows our clients to achieve their objectives while effectively mitigating risk by taking into account the type of transaction, our clients’ line of business, and other factors. Our firm also has many years of experience advising and assisting our clients (including publicly listed companies) with the running of their shareholders’ meetings, diligently preparing in advance and assisting on the day of the meeting to achieve effective investor relations (IR) through accurate and open communications.

We have extensive experience in drafting internal rules and implementing takeover defense mechanisms, and we also routinely research domestic and foreign laws and negotiate with regulatory authorities in connection with new businesses.

Our firm is fully capable of drafting documents and negotiating in English and other languages.

Representative matters in which our attorneys have been involved

  • Extensive experience dealing with various types of agreements, such as sales and purchase agreements, business alliance agreements, joint venture agreements, distributor agreements, franchise agreements, license agreements, services agreements, lease agreements, confidentiality agreements, consulting agreements, and business transfer agreements.
  • Advised on the formulation of schemes and the procedures for acquiring control of both publicly held and privately held companies.
  • Drafted summaries, contracts, and documents required under the Companies Act for the adoption of various incentive plans such as stock option grants to executives for both publicly held and privately held companies, and also advised on the procedures that comply with the relevant laws and regulations and the rules established by self-regulatory organizations.
  • Instructed and advised on procedures and responses in the shareholders’ meeting of financial institutions, consulting firms, manufacturers, entertainment companies, etc., and in the investor’s meeting of Real Estate Investment Trusts.