Chinese Law
Oh-Ebashi has been actively engaged in Chinese affairs and has handled a significant number of matters in the region. In 1995, it became the first Japanese law firm to open a Shanghai office. Oh-Ebashi provides clients with accurate, incisive advice based on our rich experiences across the full spectrum of legal issues that Japanese companies doing business in China are likely to encounter.
In the rapidly changing economic environment of Greater China, investments are increasingly diversified; companies are not just acquiring private or national Chinese corporations but are also undertaking joint investment projects with Taiwanese and Hong Kong companies. As a result, the laws and issues to be considered are more complicated than ever before. Moreover, transactions relating to product sales, provision of services, and other business development in China are simultaneously governed by several different legal regimes, such as intellectual property, antitrust, trade and product liability laws, and require a complicated and diversified legal response. In addition, for Japanese companies with subsidiaries and other affiliates in China, it is vital to establish an internal control and risk management system across their business groups.
In response to this briskly developing business climate, Oh-Ebashi has established a China Practice Group at each of our offices in Osaka, Tokyo and Shanghai, enabling us to deliver comprehensive, integrated services across the firm. Our China Practice Group continuously tracks and analyzes the latest legal developments in the region, and has created a network of experienced Oh-Ebashi foreign lawyers licensed in Japan (gaikokuho jimu bengoshi) and Chinese lawyers practicing in cities across China. Oh-Ebashi now has the capabilities to advise Japanese companies planning to enter the Chinese market or already operating in China on both day-to-day legal matters as well as larger business issues, such as imports and exports, investments, tie-ups, resolution of legal disputes, restructuring, intellectual property management, and the evaluation and development of internal control systems.
Specifically, Oh-Ebashi has experience advising clients on:
- Developing plans to enter into, restructure their business in, and withdraw from China, and assisting in implementing these goals;
- Advice on managing and operating joint ventures and other Chinese entities and resolving dispute (including advice on how to respond to new legislation, drafting and review of contracts and internal regulations, and advice on product quality issues, shareholder disputes, and labor disputes);
- Negotiating inter-company international trade disputes, and handling the arbitration and/or litigation of such disputes;
- General commercial disputes and debt collection in China;
- Settling intellectual property disputes, including the infringement and licensing of patents, trademarks, know-how, and trade secrets;
- Filing formal complaints with the tax authorities and undertaking other tax litigation over transfer pricing and tax havens;
- Developing risk control systems for their Chinese subsidiaries, and handling any fraud, white-collar crime, or other misconduct therein; and
- Responding to antitrust and other related laws.
Contact Information
For additional information regarding Oh-Ebashi’s practice in China, please feel free to send your inquiry to the following E-mail address or contact any of the individuals listed below:
Osaka Office: China Practice Group
Ko Matsui , Fumi Takatsuki
Tel: +81-06-6341-7261 (direct to the China Practice Group)
Tokyo Office: China Practice Group
Ko Matsui , Yosuke Kanegae , Eriko Hayashi
Tel: +81-03-5224-5523 (direct to the China Practice Group)
Shanghai Office:
Eriko Hayashi, Chief Representative
Tel: +86-21-6841-1699
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