Paul Hastings has a long and rich history in Japan

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Paul Hastings has a long and rich history in Japan. With more than 30 years of experience in advising clients on the complexities of transactions in Japan and the Asia-Pacific region, Paul Hastings is one of the few successful foreign law offices to provide a full range of multi-jurisdictional legal services together with licensed Japanese lawyers (bengoshi).

Our fully integrated team of highly skilled multilingual U.S. and Japanese lawyers positions us as a market leader in serving clients in Japan and providing them not only unified “one stop shopping” but also with cutting edge advice. For example, we were heavily involved in structuring and implementing the first rated securitization of Japanese mortgage-backed debt, playing a leading role in creating the structures being widely used here today. We represent a variety of enterprises and institutions and our clients include world leaders in financial services, telecommunications, manufacturing, retail, the internet and e-commerce and biotechnology.

We provide a full range of legal services to meet our clients' business needs, including:

• Arbitration, Litigation and Dispute Resolution
• Banking and Finance
• Capital Markets and Corporate Finance
• Employment
• Foreign Direct Investment
• Insolvency and Restructuring
• Intellectual Property
• International Financial Services
• International Trade and Regulatory
• Investment Management
• Mergers and Acquisitions
• Non-Performing Loans and Distressed Assets
• Private Equity and Venture Capital
• Privatization and Government Representations
• Project Development and Finance
• Real Estate
• Securitization and Structured Finance
• Tax and International Tax Structuring
• U.S. Market Entry

Japan-China Practice

Paul Hastings is one of the few international firms in China to provide a dedicated and experienced Japan-China team. Led by a Japan-qualified (bengoshi) partner in Shanghai and a U.S. partner in Beijing, our Japan-China team advises Japanese and international clients on their investments in China across broad range of issues, and works to achieve creative, practical and commercially successful solutions for their investments and business operations in both China and Japan.