Tokyo
With the second highest gross domestic
product in the world, Japan is Asia’s trendsetter. Tokyo, in turn, leads
the way in Japan. It is not only a major international financial center,
but also the world’s largest metropolitan economy. Several decades of
centralized growth, beginning in the late 1940s, spurred the rapid
expansion of the city’s economy. Today, Tokyo is home to the country’s
highest concentration of corporate headquarters and financial
institutions.
Following a recent period of challenges – the heavily regulated 1980s,
during which Japan seemed an especially difficult market for westerners
to enter, and the slump of the past decade – the Japanese economy is now
much more open and showing signs of an emerging recovery. StayLaw offers
both U.S. and Japanese clients a convenient gateway to international
business opportunities via the firm’s strategic alliance with
established Japanese law firm Hayabusa Asuka Law Offices.
Working together with our Hayabusa colleagues, we provide clients with a
sophisticated “two-way street” – a unique combination of legal services
and cultural understanding both for U.S. clients doing business in Japan
and for Japanese clients doing business in the west. The team handles a
wide range of international business transactions – including mergers
and acquisitions, joint ventures, restructurings and bankruptcies, and
corporate financings, as well as international litigation. For U.S.
clients, the firm’s Tokyo alliance also serves as a point of access to
opportunities in other parts of Asia.
Hayabusa Asuka Law Offices is well known in Japan for its broad legal
capabilities encompassing corporate, banking and finance, foreign
investment, litigation, information technology, media and intellectual
property. All of the firm’s Japanese attorneys are capable in English
and work on international matters for multinational clients. Partners of
the firm have represented major international and domestic clients since
the early 1980s. |
