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Crowdfunding

Crowdfunding has attracted a great deal of attention in recent years, typically taking the form of sales, donations, investments, real estate investments, or lending. In addition new forms of crowdfunding are emerging in areas including regional revitalization projects, impact investment projects, renewable energy-related projects and Web3 community-based crowdfunding.

Atsumi & Sakai advises crowdfunding service providers on legal issues including:

Financial services regulations
Banking regulation
Data protection
Online identity verification (eKYC)
Anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing (AML/CFT)
Digital securities (STOs) and tokenized assets
Interest rates
Money lending
Terms of business
Investor protection

We also provide legal support necessary for compliance with applicable regulations, including advice on terms of business and communications with the Financial Services Agency. Where clients seek to pursue listings, we support discussions with stock exchanges in Japan and lead underwriters regarding applicable regulatory matters .

When advising foreign clients, our firm can field a team of expert Japanese lawyers and foreign lawyers who have relevant experience and bi-cultural sensitivity. Our team can do business and draft documents in Japanese, English, German, Mandarin, Hindi, Korean, and Marathi, and provides services around the clock through our global affiliated offices.