Fukuoka Affiliate Office

Name: A&S Fukuoka LPC*

Contact: Yasuhiro Usui (Partner)

Address: Tenjin Bldg. 10F, 2-12-1 Tenjin, Chuo-ku, Fukuoka-shi, Fukuoka 810-0001 Japan

Tel: +81-(0)92-724-7701 | Fax: +81-(0)92-724-7702

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A&S Fukuoka LPC was established in 2022 to provide efficient and effective legal services to clients in rapidly developing Fukuoka, leveraging the extensive networks Atsumi & Sakai has cultivated in Tokyo and overseas.

Collaborating with experienced lawyers from our affiliate firm, Atsumi & Sakai Legal Professional Corporation, our services cover the full spectrum of corporate law matters, ranging from startup support, transaction agreements, financial regulations, domestic investments and loans, cross-border investments, mergers, M&A transactions, multidisciplinary advice specialized in the agriculture, forestry and fisheries industries, IPOs, fund formation, and dealings with regulatory authorities (including applications for licenses, permits and approvals) to labor matters, IP rights, dispute proceedings including litigation and arbitration, and overseas expansion support. Our services in the aforementioned fields are available both in Japanese and English, and based on the requirements of any given case, we have the option of collaborating with the lawyers and registered foreign lawyers of our partner Atsumi & Sakai LPC in Tokyo as needed.

While lawyers are often associated with handling court cases, confirmation of legal aspects is necessary even for regular transaction agreements. We are highly flexible and can bring our services to where you need them, so please don't hesitate to contact us.

 

Transactions members of our team have advised on include:

 

  • Provided support to a non-Japanese company expanding to Fukuoka and Kumamoto

  • Handled M&A transactions in a broad range of industries (both buy-side and sell-side)

  • Advice on measures to prevent re-occurrence in light of an embezzlement incident that occurred during a nationwide fundraising campaign

  • Internal reporting responses for multiple corporations

  • Advisor to numerous startups

  • Advice for domestic/international investments by venture capital firms

  • Advice to listed companies for investments in startup companies located in the US, UK, Israel, Germany and other jurisdictions

  • Support for an Australian travel agency expanding to Japan

  • Provided compliance advice to a fisheries industry group

  • Provided advice on IP management in agriculture, forestry and fisheries experimental facilities in several prefectures

  • Provided advice on numerous investments by public-private funds

  • Advised financial institutions on the Banking Act and the Financial Instruments and Exchange Act

  • Advice on the Payment Services Act (funds transfer services, prepaid payment instruments, etc.)

  • Represented a group of tens of foreign institutional investors in a damage compensation case for window dressing by a listed Japanese company

  • Provided advice to a semiconductor trading company regarding domestic and international transaction agreements

  • Regularly provided advice on human resources/labor issues to domestic companies as well as subsidiaries of non-Japanese companies

  • Provided advice and support on trademark applications made by government agencies, local governments, and corporations, as well as on licensing agreements

  • Regularly provided advice on real estate liquidation and development-type projects using GK-TK and TMK structures

  • Advice on securitization, factoring, and CMBS

  • Advice on a large number of block trades, POs, and TOBs 

  • Advisor to an agricultural organization

  • Advice on the introduction of new levies for agricultural guidance by agricultural cooperatives (including negotiations and coordination with the Japan Fair Trade Commission and local governments)

  • Advice on a large number of transaction agreements and joint development agreements related to agricultural materials

 

 

Awards

  • The Best Lawyers in Japan 2024: Real Estate Law (Yasuhiro Usui)
  • The Best Lawyers in Japan 2021- 2024: Investment and Investment Funds (Yasuhiro Usui)

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*Although A&S Fukuoka LPC is affiliated with Atsumi & Sakai Legal Professional Corporation, it is a separate corporation and is not a branch office of Atsumi & Sakai Legal Professional Corporation.