About us

Hashidate Law A Professional Law Corporation was established in 1980, and since its founding, Hashidate Law A Professional Law Corporation has earned an outstanding reputation as a law firm that provides high quality legal services to leading Japanese companies, banks, and securities firms, particularly in the area of cross-border financial transactions.

Currently, Hashidate Law Office provides the world’s leading companies with a full range of legal services, from providing legal advice in the preparation and negotiation of agreements so as to prevent possible future disputes, to assisting in commercial dispute resolution, including legal proceedings such as litigation and mediation. In providing these and other services, our lawyers rely on their expertise in a wide variety of areas, as well as the ability to call upon a global network of top-tier law firms for assistance. Hashidate Law A Professional Law Corporation has in recent years been focused on litigation (both in Japan and overseas), with an increased number of cases accompanying recent societal changes, and has, in various fields, consistently achieved excellent results for our clients. Hashidate Law A Professional Law Corporation’s overall practice is currently divided evenly between domestic and international legal matters.

Hashidate Law A Professional Law Corporation has developed a global legal network, including alliances with the UK Law Firm of Addleshaw Goddard LLP and several Chinese law firms (Grandall Law Firm and A&Z Law Firm), not to mention relationships with a number of prominent foreign law firms in major cities throughout the world, such that we provide our clients with rapid and effective legal coverage in most countries and areas throughout the globe.

In recent decades, the legal environment has changed at an unexpectedly rapid pace due to societal changes and major judicial reforms. We have taken a flexible response to each of these changes, and whatever changes are in store for the future, we will continue to strive to provide our clients with an even higher quality of legal services, without losing sight of our responsibility as legal professionals to contribute towards a fair and just society through tireless service to our clients.

Hashidate Law A Professional Law Corporation
Managing Partner Kenji Hashidate

Information on Hashidate Law A Professional Law Corporation's Affiliation with Addleshaw Goddard LLP

Hashidate Law A Professional Law Corporation has developed a global legal network, including alliances with the UK Law Firm of Addleshaw Goddard LLP and several Chinese law firms (Grandall Law Firm and A&Z Law Firm), not to mention relationships with a number of prominent foreign law firms in major cities throughout the world, such that we provide our clients with rapid and effective legal coverage in most countries and areas throughout the globe.

On May 13 2013, Hashidate Law A Professional Law Corporation entered into a formal business alliance with Addleshaw Goddard LLP. Addleshaw Goddard is a major international law firm with offices in the UK (London, Leeds, Manchester, Edinburgh, Glasgow, and Aberdeen), the GCC (Dubai, Muscat and Doha), and Asia (Hong Kong and Singapore). The Firm also has a well-established and comprehensive Preferred Firm Network covering an additional 200+ jurisdictions worldwide that provides local jurisdictional expertise and support to their clients whenever they need it.

Hashidate Law A Professional Law Corporation has been continuously committed to international business and development since the firm was established in 1980 and our relationship with Addleshaw Goddard LLP dates back almost 20 years. During that time, we have worked together to provide high quality legal services to our mutual clients, whether based in Japan or elsewhere in the world. Both firms also embody the same values – constantly aiming to provide better legal services for our clients.

Hashidate Law A Professional Law Corporation is now, more than ever, ideally situated to advise our clients both with respect to Japanese law (including those looking to expand their international reach into Japan) and, thanks to our strategic alliance with Addleshaw Goddard, on international legal matters further afield in Europe, the United States, the Middle East, Southeast Asia, and other regions.

In particular, Hashidate Law A Professional Law Corporation is looking forward to working with Addleshaw Goddard to build on its successful track record over recent years in supporting clients to make inroads into the dynamic and fast growing markets across South East Asia.

Contact Details

Address
The Imperial Hotel Tower, 7th Floor 1-1, Uchisaiwai-cho 1-chome, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 100-0011
FAX
+81-3-3504-1009

Access

5-minute walk from Ginza Station (Exit C1) on the Tokyo Metro Ginza Line, Marunouchi Line and Hibiya Line
3-minute walk from Hibiya Station (Exit A13) on the Tokyo Metro Hibiya Line and Chiyoda Line
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