Jipyong’s Japan Team consists of top-class professionals with excellent proficiency in the Japanese language and ample experience and expertise across a spectrum of fields including overseas investment/foreign investment, M&A, real estate, finance/IPO, IP, labor/labor management, fair trade, criminal and international arbitration, etc.
Inbound and Outbound Legal Services
Our Japan Team consists of outstanding professionals who have honed their skills through diverse work and academic experiences in Japan by engaging in training programs at Japanese law firms, studying at Japanese universities (or graduate schools), and/or working at the Korean Embassy in Japan. Based on their experience, our professionals equipped with a high degree of Japanese proficiency provide exceptional legal services on various matters to Japanese companies that have set up their business in Korea, at a level equivalent to local Japanese firms.
In addition, our Japan Team provides comprehensive and detailed advice to Korean companies entering Japan based on the Team’s evaluation of local circumstances and nature of the Japanese Law. In this process, we present practical solutions to solve the issues that the client faces through our tight network of Japanese law firms, accounting firms, administrative scrivener offices, foreign exchange banks, and consulting firms.
Our Team is highly praised for providing curated legal services to meet the client's needs based on its broad experience and professional competence in dealing with various matters such as establishing a joint venture between Korean and Japanese companies, M&A by Korean or Japanese companies, an IPO of Japanese companies on the Korean market or vice versa, dispute issues over patents or intellectual property rights between Korean and Japanese companies, legal consultation on real estate matters, internal investigations of a company, advice on fair-trade issues, representation on criminal cases, and/or arbitration in international disputes.
Establishment of an International Legal Service Platform in Collaboration with 8 Overseas Offices
At this time of ever-increasing cross-border M&As in the global market, laws and regulations of different countries may concurrently apply to a single cross-boundary transaction. To address this issue, Jipyong has expanded its practices to accommodate local businesses in China, Russia, Vietnam, Indonesia, Myanmar, Cambodia, and Laos. Through our well-established international legal platform in cooperation with 8 overseas offices, Jipyong’s Japan Team not only deals with the issues arising in the transactions between Japanese and Korean companies but also advises Japanese companies that wish to enter Southeast Asian countries on unpredictable local issues related to foreign investment, real estate, human resources and labor management, evaluation of mergers, other competition laws, etc. in a preemptive and effective manner. Through such cooperation and effective advisory services, JIPYONG successfully assisted several Japanese companies with their entry into the Korean market.
Key Practice Areas Close
- Advise Japanese companies’ investment in Korea, Korean companies’ investment in Japan, Japanese companies’ investment in Southeast Asian countries, and establishment of a local company
- Advise M&A on behalf of or against Japanese companies and the matters related to M&As across transfer and acquisition of stocks and business ownership, management rights, assets, spin-off, etc.
- Advise investment and operation of real estate in Korea by Japanese companies and real estate in Japan by Korean companies
- Advise Japanese companies in real estate project financing and SOC in Korea
- Advise Japanese companies on listing in Korea (IPO) and Korean companies on listing in Japan (IPO)
- Advise intellectual property disputes involving Japanese companies, such as infringement of patents, trademarks, and trade secrets, as well as prevention of unfair competition
- Advise individual (working conditions, workplace harassment, sexual harassment, etc.) or collective (mediation of industrial and labor disputes, unfair labor practices, etc.) labor management and labor-related issues for Korean companies which Japanese companies invest in
- Advise fair trade and other government regulations involving Japanese companies, such as international cartels, unfair trade practices, notification of business combinations, subcontracting laws, agency laws, etc.
- Various litigation involving Japanese companies in civil, criminal, commercial, administrative, and tax cases
- Arbitration of international disputes related to transactions such as joint investment and/or import/export between Japanese and Korean companies
Experience Close
- Advised an IT company on the establishment of a Japanese subsidiary related to Blockchain
- Advised a clothing brand on the establishment of a Japanese subsidiary
- Advised a metal company on the establishment of a joint venture with a Japanese company
- Advised a telecommunications operator on the establishment of a joint venture with a Japanese company
- Advised on the operation of the Korean corporation on behalf of a global distributor
- Advised a PEF on the acquisition of a solar power plant in Nagasaki, Japan
- Represented a shareholder of a bio company in selling his shares to a semiconductor equipment and components manufacturer
- Represented an IT & engineering company in its execution of a consortium agreement for business in Japan and an EPC contract
- Represented a Korean company in its acquisition of the semiconductor business unit of a Japanese company
- Represented a Japanese company in its execution of an investment agreement for investment in a Korean entertainment company
- Represented a Japanese company in selling the equity in its subsidiary to a Kazakhstan company
- Represented a securities company in selling a shopping mall located in Osaka, Japan
- Represented a securities company in purchasing a logistics center in Osaka, Japan, and an office building in Tokyo
- Advised and represented a Korean company with the acquisition of a mortgage established on a real estate property in Japan and the conversion process
- Advised a Korean-Japanese on the management of his real estate properties in Korea
- Represented an asset management company in acquiring shares in the Japanese anonymous association (TK) for rental housing investment
- Represented a securities company in obtaining a trust bond for the specified money trust issued in Japan
- Represented a Japanese company in its listing on the KOSDAQ market
- Represented a Korean company in listing on the Tokyo Stock Exchange (Mothers) in Japan
- Advised on and represented in the dispute over intellectual property rights between Korean and Japanese companies
- Advised on the execution of an intellectual property rights agreement related to online games between Japanese and Korean companies
- Investigated and reported misconduct (accounting fraud) by officers and employees of the Korean subsidiary of a Japanese company
- Investigated and reported workplace harassment in the Korean subsidiary of a Japanese company
- Advised a Korean company on the filing of a business combination report to the Japan Fair Trade Commission
- Advised a Japanese company on matters related to the violation of the Korean Fair Trade Act
- Defended Japanese companies and/or Japanese nationals in criminal cases in Korea, and defended Korean companies and/or Korean nationals in criminal cases in Japan (Provided legal represention to plaintiffs as well as defendants in multiple cases)
- Represented a Japanese company in the arbitration seated at the Japan Commercial Arbitration Association (JCAA) regarding a joint venture agreement
- Mediated a case related to an import and export contract between Korean and Japanese companies
[Overseas Investment/Foreign Investment]
[M&A]
[Real estate]
[Finance/IPO]
[IP]
[Labor/Labor Management]
[Fair Trade]
[Criminal Case]
[International Arbitration]
Myanmar Cambodia / Laos Vietnam Japan ···Head of Central & Eastern Europe / Senior Advisor James CHANG
