Finance/investment-related Disputes

The first in Japan to move into mortgage securitization, Atsumi & Sakai is a leading law firm for securitization in Japan, and ever since its foundation has focused its efforts on financial legal services affecting various financial transactions. Over the years, while gaining a reputation for providing advice to a wide range of domestic and foreign financial institutions and investment funds, we have been consulted on a variety of disputes arising from various financial and investment transactions, and have accumulated a track record in handling these cases.

We have handled a number of securities litigations involving false statements, etc., with the amount of claim ranging from billions of yen to tens of billions of yen. We have also handled several cutting-edge litigations involving bitcoin and other crypto assets in Japan and abroad, utilizing our strengths in the field of Fintech. We have handled disputes involving fund investment cases that may arise at various stages of financial and investment transactions, ranging from disputes over the validity of investment structures and the interpretation of investment terms, to disputes over real estate and renewable energy power plants in which investments were made. Further, utilizing our deep experience and knowledge as a leading firm handling securitization, we have been involved in several litigations and bankruptcy cases in which the true sale treatment of structured finance or securitization/liquidation transactions, was challenged, as a complex issue.

We have in place a framework in which attorneys specializing in finance and investment laws and attorneys specializing in dispute resolution work together to form an optimal team to resolve individual cases involving these finance and investment-related disputes.