Australia/New Zealand

Atsumi & Sakai's Asia-Pacific Practice Group has over 25 years’ experience advising clients from this region, providing a wide range of legal services by leveraging a market-leading combination of lawyers admitted in Australia and Japan..

Our Australian lawyers are both partners and, between them, admitted in the States of New South Wales, Queensland and Victoria. They are currently licensed to practice respectively in New South Wales and Queensland law, and are both registered as foreign lawyers in Japan.

 

They have between them many years of experience advising, together with their Japanese colleagues, Australian clients doing business in Japan, and vice-versa.

 

Both are long-standing members of the Australian and New Zealand Chamber of Commerce in Japan, providing our firm with a wealth of information on these regions, as well as contacts with embassies and trade and investment commissioners from this region.

The team has particular strengths in M&A, joint ventures, real estate, general corporate, commercial agreements, sports law, IP/IT, sustainability, and dispute resolution.
 

 

Sample Material Transactions:

• Advised an Australian hospitality group on its debut luxury serviced apartment management project in Japan and related infrastructure
• Advised a leading Australian producer of dairy products on a joint venture with a Japanese trading house for the importing of those products into Japan
• Advised an Australian logistics services company on its disposal of a non-core business operated by its Japanese subsidiary to a local buyer
• Advised an Australia-based global provider of network services on regulatory and other issues relating to its establishing business operations in Japan
• Advised a leading Australian financial institution on its investment in a multi-family portfolio in Japan
• Advised international airlines from the region on data protection and breaches
• Advised a leading Australian investment bank on its financial service joint venture with a leading Japanese bank
• Advised on Japanese government bidding procedures for an Australian product supplier
• Advised on general corporate and compliance matters for an Australia-based company
• Advised an Australian company on their IP matters, including enforcing their rights in Japan
• Advised global sports right holders with sporting events in Australia
   

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