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Anderson, Mori and Tomotsune has long been recognized for delivering exceptional domestic and international tax services to a diverse range of clients. Our expertise encompasses a broad spectrum of tax-related matters, including corporate tax, income tax, inheritance tax, gift tax, consumption tax (VAT), customs duties, energy-related taxes (such as petroleum and coal tax, and light oil delivery tax), as well as local (municipal) taxes. One of our core strengths lies in our ability to provide nuanced advice on the tax implications of complex and innovative transactions, services, and products. We assist clients in mitigating future tax risks through forward-thinking strategies grounded in a deep understanding of judicial and administrative precedents, as well as the latest academic research. As a full-service firm, our tax lawyers collaborate seamlessly with the lawyers in other practice groups to offer comprehensive guidance on diverse tax issues. These range from M&A and corporate reorganizations to financial products, executive and expatriate compensation, stock options, and cutting-edge transactions such as those involving blockchain technology. In the realm of international taxation, our advice on both inbound and outbound transactions spans the full array of issues. From structuring and restructuring strategies to the meticulous review of contractual terms, our tax lawyers are adept at navigating both novel and typical tax challenges, including thin capitalization rules, earnings stripping rules, transfer pricing rules, anti-tax haven (CFC) rules, global minimum taxation, and other pivotal international tax regulations. We routinely advise clients on managing potential tax audits and disputes with tax authorities. We are frequently sought for our expertise in interpreting complex tax treaties, which often prove challenging to apply in practice. We also provide regular counsel on the Japanese tax implications of restructuring overseas businesses, particularly in cases involving multiple investment trusts, partnerships, or other entities established abroad. Our advice is highly valued by external professionals, including international law firms, tax accounting corporations, and tax accountants. In multi-jurisdictional transactions, we often coordinate with foreign professionals to ensure successful outcomes for our clients.

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YutakaShimoo

Tokyo

Osaka

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Yutaka Shimoo is a partner who principally focuses on tax, wealth management and dispute resolution, and also broadly handles corporate legal affairs including corporate affairs, labor and employment, and crisis management. With regard to tax and wealth management, Yutaka provides advice from both legal and tax perspectives, drawing on his extensive work experience as a lawyer and his experience as an officer with the Tokyo Regional Taxation Bureau. His strength in these areas lies in capabilities on the fields where legal matter and tax matter are intersected each other, such as global incentives and capital policies, and wide experience on cross-border transactions. Recently, Yutaka has also actively worked on tax issues related to digital assets such as cryptocurrencies and NFTs. In addition, Yutaka has extensive litigation experience representing financial institutions and business corporations in the dispute resolution field, and also handles many disputes related to inheritance and business succession.

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AkiraTanaka

Tokyo

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Akira Tanaka particularly specializes in tax. He has broad experience and expertise in various tax practices, ranging from tax planning to tax litigation. He also has extensive experience working on general dispute resolution matters. He has represented numerous Japanese and foreign companies in litigation and other dispute resolution procedures, in areas such as international transactions, M&A and financial transactions.

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KeiSasaki

Tokyo

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Kei Sasaki provides comprehensive advice in a wide range of areas, centered on financial transactions, financial regulation and taxation. In particular, Kei specialize in structured finance (including real estate finance), PFI, project finance (including solar and other renewable energy projects), syndicated loans, cross-border loan transactions, fund transactions and trust transactions. In recent years, Kei is handling FinTech projects including payment services and crypto assets matters. His client’s range from international financial institutions, Japanese large financial institutions, foreign investors to small financial service providers as well as foreign law firm.

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MasatsuguNakajima

Tokyo

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Masatsugu Nakajima has a wide range of experience in corporate and securities law and tax law. He has undertaken a wide range of tax work relating to stamp duty, income tax, corporate tax, inheritance tax and consumption tax (inluding liquor tax). His corporate and securities experience includes takeovers, mergers and acquisitions (public and private), capital raisings, recapitalisations, private equity and venture capital, joint ventures and alliances, corporate structuring and governance and establishing a business practice in Japan. Since he was seconded on a full time basis to the M&A advisory department of one of the leading Japanese securities firms, he has been playing important roles in a number of public deals.

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NorihiroUbukata

Tokyo

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Tokyo

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Norihiro Ubukata is a partner at Anderson Mori & Tomotsune and focusing on mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, corporate governance, shareholder and hedge fund activism defense, hostile takeover defense, proxy contest and corporate and securities law matters. Mr. Ubukata has been involved commercial litigations including derivative suits and shareholder litigations as well.

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