DT Legal Japan

The firm: Deloitte member firms have a long-standing reputation for helping clients address complex, cross-border issues. Highly-skilled and experienced Deloitte Legal* lawyers connect with other Deloitte professionals across the globe in tax, consulting and financial advisory to guide clients through wide-ranging projects. Deloitte Legal, present in over 80 countries, is able to provide holistic guidance around strategic business decisions, as well as offer support services that can increase efficiency and reduce the cost of complex legal activities.

DT Legal Japan (“DTLJ”) joined the Deloitte Legal network in April 2015. Its managing partner is Yasunobu Tsujihata , an attorney qualified in Japan and NY. He leads a team of Japanese lawyers who have mainly come from the highest-ranking international law firms. The team advises the biggest global institutions on challenging domestic and international legal matters, leveraging on Deloitte’s unsurpassed worldwide client network. The firm is expanding aggressively-the target is to have 50 lawyers by 2022.

With more than 2,500 legal professionals in over 80 countries around the globe and 24 lawyers in Japan, Deloitte Legal offers sophisticated yet pragmatic advice in many fields of national and international business law. Our professionals provide tailored solutions for demanding projects and complex domestic and international transactions: globally and locally. And we offer even more: multidisciplinary advice incorporating Tax, Assurance, Consulting and Corporate Finance.

Whether family-owned smaller and medium-sized companies, listed stock corporations or international groups of companies-  with our service lines in Commercial Law, Corporate/M&A, Tax Controversy, Labor & Employment and Finance, we cover fields of business law that are important to our clients.

Collecting and combining multidisciplinary expertise in our industry groups such as Banking & Securities, Energy & Resources, Manufacturing, Consumer Business, TMT and Real Estate enables us to provide interdisciplinary advice which anticipates industry- or sector-specific trends and developments. By doing this, we can help our clients to face the challenges of an ever-changing regulatory and economic environment.

We understand legal advice not as an isolated component, but as a contribution to a comprehensive solution to address the problems that our clients face. Working together with our Deloitte colleagues, we help our clients make informed and creative decisions in the context of legal and other commercially-orientated business considerations.

Corporate and mergers and acquisitions services: Deloitte Legal* provides a full range of corporate law services from complex advisory services related to major business life events (including advising in restructuring and mergers and acquisitions processes) through to general secretarial services.

Labor and employment: Turbulent economic times require companies to be agile and flexible in their staffing to remain competitive. Complex polices, frequent legislative changes and global operations make managing employee relations and compliance with employment law challenging for businesses. Deloitte Legal* provides businesses with the advice they need to make informed decisions and comply with a multitude of regulatory and procedural requirements.

Finance: Advice on financial regulatory laws (Financial Instruments and Exchange Law, Banking Law, Insurance Business Law, Trust Business Law and others), application for business operator registration, drafting of internal rules, external audit. There are some service as below in addition to them.

• Financial transactions such as loans, various securitizations, derivatives (domestic and cross-border)
• Leasing of aircraft and ship
• Cryptocurrency, Fintech
• Real estate transactions, real estate development, Capital Market

 Tax controversy solutions: Deloitte Legal* and Deloitte tax professionals offer both domestic and multinational companies controversy assistance.

 * “Deloitte Legal” means the legal practices of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Limited member firm affiliates that provide legal services. For legal and regulatory reasons, not all member firms provide legal services.