SPECIALTIES

In addition to the general practice including a few sizable litigations as the plaintiffs' lawyers in such as the variable insurance cases, the firm is primarily an international business law firm with shorter history and less well-known than a few mostly foreign-lawyer founded big ones but by no means of a lesser capability or competence in certain areas of its practice. The firm's specialities are:

1. Domestic:
   Banking laws (not excluding litigations such as preliminary injunctions, foreclosures and collections), real estate laws, intellectual properties laws, mergers and acquisitions, asset-backed securitization.
   
   

2. International or Cross-Border:
   Mortgage loan, project finance, guaranty and security interest and other credit extension transactions, partnership, joint venture, mergers and acquisitions, licensing, distribution.
   
   

AREAS OF PRACTICE

1. At Home

   �@documentation of all kinds of loan agreements, agreements for other credit-extensions including syndicated loan agreements, project financing and securities underwriting and securities-backed loan agreements, mortgage, pledge and other securities agreements , guarantee, letter of credit agreements.
   
   �Adocumentation of acquisition of real property interest and relative agreements, development, construction and architect design contract.
   
   �Brendering legal opinions as well as consultation, advice and representative negotiations on the foregoing matters and on problems concerning various corporate law and financial transactional matters.
   

2. Overseas

   �@ representation, intermediation, of Japanese Corporations in negotiating and concluding contracts

   (a) distributorship, agency, and licensing agreements;

   (b) credit agreements, facility agreements, security agreements, guarantee or letter of credit agreements; and

   (c) joint venture, confidentiality agreements.

   �A representation, intermediation of/and assistance to Japanese corporations in communicating with mainly American lawyers in the both the pre-trial and later stages of lawsuits.