Yasuyuki Suzuki

With their long-standing practices since 1990’s, Hayabusa Kokusai Law Offices and Asuka Kyowa Law Firm merged to establish Hayabusa Asuka Law Offices in March 2007. Hayabusa Asuka Law Offices is an independent Japanese law firm which handles a wide range of domestic legal work. In parallel, Hayabusa Asuka Law Offices can flexibly support a client in legal issues overseas, as it belongs to many international networks and works closely with professionals from other jurisdictions.

Hayabusa Asuka Law Offices has an outstanding expertise in areas of business laws, such as IP, M&A, Finance, Labor Law, and Bankruptcy. In these several years, Hayabusa Asuka Law Offices has put more efforts on facilitation of business development and investment to / from China, India, South East Asia and Russia (Far East Area), by reviewing a contract with a government agency, company or any other association of the country at issue and assisting dispute resolution etc.

At Hayabusa Asuka Law Offices, we have attorneys and staffs with diverse backgrounds and experience in a wide range of fields. Our attorney roster includes former judges, corporate attorneys with in-house experience at major firms, attorneys with previous assignments at central government ministries and agencies, foreign law attorneys, attorneys also professors at law schools, and many young attorneys and staffs who excel in foreign languages or specialized fields. We have built a multi-national team who can provide solutions to a large variety of legal issues in Japan and overseas.

Our philosophy at Hayabusa Asuka Law Offices is to provide our clients with premier legal service based on the teamwork of our alliance of specialists. In order to accurately grasp the legal issues involved and to provide practical solutions, we respond swiftly in accordance with the work responsibilities of our attorneys and the knowledge and experience possessed by our team and alliance partners including overseas attorneys, Certified Public Accountants, Tax Accountants, Judicial Scriveners, management consultants and other specialists.

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Yasuyuki Suzuki
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Practice areas
Cross-border transactions, Inbound business start-up, Joint ventures, Licensing and distribution, Franchising, Intellectual Property, Anti-counterfeiting, Banking & Finance (transaction / regulation), Insolvency, Business restructuring, General Corporate, Litigation

Qualified
Japan Federation of 2008
Bar Association
Tokyo Bar Association (2008)
New York State Bar Association (2015)

Education
LL.B., Keio University
LL.M., New York University,
LL.M., National University of Singapore

Other Qualification
/ title etc.
New York Bar
Law Asia Tokyo 2017 Business Program Committee (banking & finance session)
Vice chair of an business alliance committee, Legal Support Center for SME Business, Tokyo Bar Association (2017-)
An Outbound Business Facilitator, Federation of Bar Association in Japan (2017-)

Languages
Japanese, English

Education / Career
2007 Legal Research and Training Institute, Supreme Court of Japan
2008 Hayabusa Asuka Law Offices
2014 Duane Morris & Selvam LLP (Singapore)
2014 New York University LL.M. (Global Business Law)
2014 National University of Singapore LL.M. (Corporate and Financial Service Law)
2014 Murao Tatsuo Law Office (Hong Kong)
2015 Standard Chartered Bank Japan
2017 Hayabusa Asuka Law Offices

Publications
Casebook: Standards for Dismissal [Revised edition] (2009, co-author)
Case seminar Tortious Act / Default Occupational Injury (2009, co-author)
Legal System and Practices about Overtime Payments (2011, co-author)
Handbook of Choosing Alternatives in Insolvency Procedures (2012, co-author)
Legal Practice for Brand Management (2013, co-author)
Doing Business 2017, Equal Opportunity for All (2017, contributor)

Seminars
Tax/custom issues in loyalty payment from a subsidiary in China to its parent corporation in Japan (2015)
International trade & trade finance (2016)
Utility and legal issues in trust scheme in business succession (2017, co-speaker)
Regulatory and legal status of Crypto-Currency in Japan (2017)

 

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