Asia Practice

Asia region has been a major manufacturing hub of the world with supply of abundant and inexpensive labor force. It is also becoming a significant market even for service industry as a result of the rapid economic growth of countries in the region. Consequently, each of Asian countries has received foreign investments in various sectors and the number and scale of such foreign investments in the region are expected to be further increased.

City-Yuwa Partners has multiple Japanese lawyers who have experience in working in Southeast Asian countries. Moreover, City-Yuwa Partners has established its networks with leading law firms in Asian countries for years and, with close collaboration with such leading local law firms, support clients in their business expansion to, and operation of business in, such Asian countries.

Our lawyers have provided support for projects and transactions in Thailand, Vietnam, Indonesia, Singapore, Malaysia, Philippines, Myanmar, Laos, Cambodia, India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and others. City-Yuwa Partners is also able to provide one-stop service to handle projects across multiple Asian countries by utilizing the networks with leading local law firms mentioned above. There are a variety of such projects and transactions such as research on foreign investment restrictions, company formation, joint ventures, mergers and acquisitions, license and franchise agreements and others at the stage of expansion to Asian countries, and corporate, labor and compliance matters, application for licenses and permits, real estate transactions, financial transactions, investigation of misconducts, debt collection, dispute resolution and others for local business operations after expanding to the country.

In addition, in recent years a number of new laws such as competition/anti-trust law, personal data protection law and product liability law have been enacted in emerging Asian countries. Our lawyers collect information of such legislation and law amendments for providing to clients.