* Names of the parties and products involved are disclosed only for cases publicly known as being handled by our firm.

1. M&A
(1) Acquisition by a precision equipment manufacturer of a medical equipment manufacturer (Counsel to the acquiring company)
(2) Transfer by an electronics manufacture of its shares in its logistics-related subsidiary to a transportation company (Counsel to the transferring company)
(3) Transfer by an electronics manufacture of its shares in its international trade-related subsidiary to a transportation company (Counsel to the transferring company)
(4) Acquisition by a Japanese textile manufacturer of a German manufacturer of textile products for medical equipment (Counsel to the acquiring company)
(5) Acquisition by a Japanese textile manufacturer of a Spanish manufacturer of medical reagents, etc. (Counsel to the acquiring company)
(6) Acquisition by a Japanese rubber product manufacturer of a Swiss manufacturer of rubber products for medical equipment (Counsel to the acquiring company)
(7) Integration of housing related business of an electronics manufacturer and a car manufacturer

2. Hostile Takeover Cases
(1) Livedoor Co., Ltd. v. Nippon Broadcasting System, Inc. – Petition for a provisional disposition for injunction of the issuance of stock options (Counsel to the shareholders)
(2) Petition for a provisional disposition for injunction of Nireco Corporation’s issuance of stock options (Counsel to the shareholders)
(3) Hostile takeover by the Murakami Fund of the Hanshin Electric Railway Co., Ltd. (Counsel to the company)
(4) Proposal of management integration by Rakuten, Inc. to TBS (Counsel to the shareholders)

3. Petitions to Fix Share Purchase Prices
(1) Rakuten, Inc. v. TBS - Petition to determine the share purchase price (Counsel to the shareholders)
(2) Petition to determine the purchase price of the shares of Sunstar, Inc. for its MBO (Counsel to the company)
(3) Petition to determine the purchase price of the shares of Panasonic Electric Works Co., Ltd. to make the company a wholly-owned subsidiary of Panasonic Corporation (Counsel to the company)

4. Derivative Suits
(1) Rakuten, Inc. v. TBS – Petition for a provisional disposition on a claim for inspection of account books, etc., and the relevant suit (Counsel to the shareholders)
(2) Shareholder’s derivative lawsuit filed on the ground that the directors are allegedly in breach of their duty to monitor and construct a risk management system with respect to the alleged misconduct by employees (Counsel to the company)
(3) Petition for permission to inspect and copy the minutes of the board meetings, which was filed in support of the filing of a derivative suit (Counsel to the company)

5. Shareholders Meetings
(1) Action for revocation of the shareholder resolutions filed by a shareholder who sent an advance letter of questions (jizen shitsumon jyo), alleging that the directors failed to fulfill their accountability at the meeting, and that the order of the chair of the meeting to leave the place of the meeting (taijyo meirei) was significantly unfair (Counsel to the company)

6. Product Liability
(1) Mediation of claim for damages filed based on an allegation that a fire broke out from a refrigerator (Counsel to the manufacturing company)
(2) Litigation of claim for damages filed based on an allegation that a fire broke out from a fan heater (Counsel to the manufacturing company)
(3) Litigation of claim for damages filed in the United States based on an allegation that a factory worker in the United States got injured due to a defect in a machine tool (Counsel to the manufacturing company)
(4) Litigation of claim for damages filed based on the damages allegedly caused by an adverse effect of an anticancer drug for lung cancer called “IRRESA” (Counsel to the manufacturing company)
(5) Litigation of claim for damages filed by an athlete based on an allegation that he was sanctioned for an anti-doping violation due to components of other compounds contaminating a gastrointestinal drug (Counsel to the manufacturing company)

7. Fraud Investigation
(1) False representation of product performance, falsification of data and the like by a manufacturing company
(2) Unauthorized disclosure of a manufacturing company’s confidential information to its competitor
(3) Off-balance sheet payment of sales incentives by a manufacturing company’s overseas sales headquarters
(4) Window-dressing of accounts by a manufacturing company’s overseas subsidiary
(5) Embezzlement by an employee of a financial institution
(6) Embezzlement by an accounting employee of a manufacturing company
(7) Harassment by a top management of a manufacturing company
(8) Circular transaction by a trading company