- M&A
Startups & Venture Capital
Strategic support for business enhancement by negotiation experts, tech specialists, and attorneys with business experience, with a long track records of business model design, fundraising, alliance and other disruptive actions in startups
In order for a startup company to turn its business idea into a scalable business, it is necessary to have a legal strategy from the viewpoint of ensuring and strengthening its business differentiator, and maximizing long term profit in addition to simply avoiding various legal risks. In addition, with limited resources, a startup company needs to make appropriate decisions on which aspect of the business and legal issues it should prioritize.
We support the growth of startup companies in pursuing the best way to realize long term benefit and in choosing priority areas to focus on according to their stage of development.
From the same standpoint, we support companies and investors who invest in startup companies or acquire them in the following ways:
- Fundraising: design terms and conditions, support negotiation strategy, prepare deal documents.
- Advise on contract term design and allocation of rights and obligations among stake holders for the creation of a new business model.
- Advise on IP strategy and execution thereof both for brands and technologies.
- Advise on business alliances and support of the execution thereof.
- Advise on equity story and capital structure of the company.
- Global expansion of the business (both inwards in Japan and outbound)
- Support in obtaining business licenses and permits and other legal procedures for conducting business.
- Advise on mergers and acquisitions.
Recent Work
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- 2024.5
- Pro Bono Advice on the Establishment of B Market Builder Japan
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- 2024.1
- Japan Post Capital Co., Ltd. - Investment in Hacobell Inc.
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- 2023.12
- Japan Post Capital Co, Ltd. - Investment in Mujin, Inc.
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- 2023.11
- Anupong Kriangkrailipikorn - Kasikorn Bank takes over Traveligo, and subsequently rebrand to Gother
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- 2023.11
- Fermelanta, Inc. - Fundraising
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- 2023.10
- Hokkaido Electric Power Co., Inc. – Capital and business alliance with YourStand, Inc.
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- 2023.9
- Japan Post Insurance NEXT Partners Co., Ltd. - Formation of Corporate Venture Capital (CVC) Partnership
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- 2023.8
- Japan Post Capital Co., Ltd. - Follow-on investment in AVILEN, Inc.
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- 2023.7
- Telexistence Inc. - Series B fundraising and strategic alliance with SoftBank Robotics Group Corp.
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- 2023.6
- Heartseed Inc. - Series D fundraising
Awards & Rankings
N&A Newsletters
Seminars
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N&A Legal Forum
European M&A dynamics - what makes a successful auction transaction in Germany and the Netherlands
Tokyo
Nishimura & Asahi Seminars
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N&A Legal Forum
European M&A dynamics - what makes a successful transaction in Italy
Tokyo
Nishimura & Asahi Seminars
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JAPAN INNOVATION DAY 2024 by ASCII STARTUP, "Startup crosses the ocean"
Tokyo
External Seminars
Publications
News
- Appointment
- Hironori Inagaki appointed as a committee member of the Task Force for the Creation of New Startup Markets, Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade, and Industry.
- Media
- Round-table discussion: Future Prospects of M&A in Japan: Latest Trends in Cross-Border M&A in Europe and the Middle East
- Notices
- Sponsored event: Israel's top smart mobility startups in Tokyo