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Personal attorney
Personal attorney is just like a private doctor who provides daily personal legal consultation, draft and review of contract documents, preparations for procedures of Board Of Directors and of general shareholders' meeting and so on, advisory for establishing company regulations, capital increases including issue of stock options and classified stocks, and helpline desk service that receives informant reporting, and so on.
As a principle, upon your request, our attorneys swiftly respond to your needs within 1 or 2 business days. For more information about personal attorney, please read this.
Categories of legal consultation CLAIR LAW FIRM provides
Various court cases
In addition to general proceedings for collection of A/R and for labor issues, our attorneys enter negotiations with and/or court cases against the parties for copy right violation and/or patent right violation and so on.
Return to topReview and draft of contract documents
In order to prevent future disputes and to protect company interests, it is vital for the parties to enter into contracts with rational contents. CLAIR LAW FIRM offers review and draft of various contract documents such as nondisclosure agreement (NDA), development license agreement, distributorship agreement, and so on. We review and draft terms of services and application forms on WEB sites, and so on.
Procedures to issue stock options
As a part of capital policy, we undertake preparations and procedures to issue stock options.
Stock options are to be issued not only as incentives but also as countermeasures against hostile TOB (takeover bid) by a specific party. We propose various stock options that are appropriately tailored to each different stage as your company is developed.
Procedures to issue classified stocks
Whenever venture company at its early stage of development is to raise capital from ANGEL or Venture Capital, to utilize its advantage of issuing classified stocks is one of measures to success in keeping the business grip in the hands of manager as well as ensuring raising capital at the same time. Our attorneys who are fully experienced in issuing classified stocks undertake the series of procedures for issuing classified stocks and give appropriate advice.
Procedures to issue corporate bond
We undertake procedures for issuing corporate bond. Corporate bond has an advantage of enabling you to write off interests, which is a feature different from issuing of new shares and stock options whose advantage is incentive effect. We propose an appropriate corporate bond that is fitting to the capital state of client's company.
Due Diligence
CLAIR LAW FIRM continuously offers services for matters regarding Due Diligence that prepare for IPO and M & A. High Committee to examine applications for IPO requires applicants to conduct sufficient diligence. In the process of M & A, insufficiency in diligence can be deemed as an issue concerning larches of director.
Support for implementation of Privacy Mark
Since when “Act on the Protection of Personal Information" fully came into force in April 2005, it is imperative for any company to implement personal information protection framework. Privacy Mark is a system in which an independent third party assesses and accredits a private enterprise implementing such privacy framework under JISQ15001 standard.
This fulfills requirements set by Act on the Protection of Personal Information but also raises your profile to your business partners and consumers with the policies on personal information protection that your company takes. CLAIR LAW FIRM supports companies to implement personal information protection framework.
Procedures to Apply for Trade Mark
Brands are hugely valued in recent business. Trade Mark is a system to protect brands. In order to protect brands, we recommend that you obtain trade mark.
Procedures to establish business organizations
We offers broad services from preparation for establishing of Company limited by shares, [General partnership, Limited partnership, Limited liability company], LLP and incorporated NPO, to support and follow-ups for those established. Certain categories of businesses are being regulated under various statutes, or requiring to take licensing procedures. We research on those legal regulations, then, propose appropriate plans for you. We also undertake procedures to convert from general partnership, limited partnership and limited liability company to company limited by shares, or undertake procedures to establish association as well.
Procedures to establish company regulations
To establish company administrative management system is a vital task for any companies.
Our attorneys visit your company and draft company regulations specifically tailored for your company while having consulting with your personnel in charge of administration, which leads to strong support for you to establish company administrative management system.
Research on laws and regulations regarding new businesses
Whenever you are to start any new business, if you seek to lead new businesses to success, it is vital for you to research on whether each new business is not breaching any laws, and on whether any mandate regulations and procedures are obliged to take. In addition to that, we give accurate advice based on our investigation of trade mark services such as trade mark search, trade mark registration procedures and update procedures.
Legal consultation for labor issues
Laws relating to labor such as the Labor Standards Law are mostly compulsory provisions. Therefore, any provisions adverse to employees' interests cease to be in effect.
We receive your request for our advice, and your request of filing a lawsuit concerning general labor issues relating to salary and leave of absence, or troubles of employees, dismissal for the purpose of reorganization, file a claim for overtime payment, and labor tribunal.
Various procedures required from Companies Act
Practical advice on general shareholders' meeting, proceedings and agendas of board of directors, various documentation, and legal activities like increase capital which is to be involved with public notice and registration increase in capital; we are to swiftly engage in taking various procedures relating to Companies Act.
Our attorneys are, in some companies, appointed as directors or auditors, and giving legal advice for the companies as internal auditors.
Business reorganization
Business reorganization of group companies or M & A engaged with outside companies has already become a common strategy for development of business activities. We support you to complete appropriate organizational restructuring in considering advantage and disadvantage of various systems such as business combination, transfer of business as well as corporate separation and stock exchange offers and so on.
Bankruptcy/Turnaround
We examine the state of company in detail, then, propose appropriate methods of business restructuring and liquidation of a company to speedily complete legally required procedures.
CLAIR LAW FIRM has already been engaged in administration in bankruptcy as being appointed by Tokyo district court for more than 10 years, therefore, even if the scale of bankruptcy is big with over 1000 debts and credits, we can handle its administration in a quite short time.
Collection of claim
We collect account receivables and loans and so on. We also undertake draft and review of contract documents as preventive measures to avoid any troubles involving collection of claim.