AI-EI Law Firm

Managing Partner: Michihiro MORI

Partner: Takeshi KOIBUCHI, Hiroaki MATSUI, Koji KANO, Keisuke NAKAMURA, Shu KISHIKAWA, Takahiro ITO

Number of partners: 7

Number of other fee-earners: 9

Firm Overview

Providing Practical Strategies

Our firm provides a practical strategy based on vast experience.

Our goal is not just to give an “legally correct” advice but to achieve a best solution for the client. We provide a best strategy to achieve such goal using extensive knowledge and wide variety of experience.

Flexibility to Resolve Problems

With a wide variety of experience and achievement, including several litigations worth tens of billions of yen, debt collection of over 100 billion yen claim, some billions of M&A related disputes and so forth. We can propose several options to achieve goal, utilizing not only litigation and other kinds of legal proceeding but also ADR and other kinds of methods outside of the court.

Flexible Fee Structure at the Level of Top Law Firm

It sometimes happens that overmanning in large law firms leads to high cost. We utilize our limited resources effectively to ensure efficient processes, and can provide clients with flexible fee arrangements.

Responding to Cross-border cases

We have several bilingual lawyers and staffs to handle international business. We have various experience including submission of expert opinion in foreign litigations and international arbitration cases.

Main Areas of Practice

■Dispute Resolution / Litigation, Conciliation, Arbitration and ADR

〇Corporate and Commercial Disputes

〇Real Estate and Construction Disputes / Other Business-related Civil Litigation and Non-Contentious Matters

〇Consumer Disputes / Class Actions / Product Liability Lawsuits

〇Labor Disputes / Pension Disputes

〇Administrative Litigation / Tax Litigation

〇Bankruptcy and Insolvency-related Disputes

〇Intellectual Property Disputes

〇Disputes related to Trade Secrets and Non-Competition

〇Crypto currency-related Disputes

〇M&A-related Disputes

〇International Litigation (Cross-Border Litigation, Foreign Litigation)

■Labor and Pensions

〇Formulation and Revision of Employment Rules and other Regulations

〇Advice on Compliance with Labor Regulations / Overtime, Harassment, etc.

〇Personnel Reduction / Dismissal for Business Reasons / Ordinary Dismissal

〇Labor Tribunal / Provisional Disposition / Litigation

〇Labor Issues related to Organizational Restructuring and M&A

〇Collective Bargaining / Other Responses to Labor Unions

〇Pensions

〇Employment Issues related to Employment of Foreigners or Hiring Overseas

〇Worker Dispatching / Secondment

〇Response to Employee Scandals / Whistleblowing

■Servicing / Civil Enforcement

〇Advice on Securing Credit

〇Provisional Seizure / Provisional Disposition

〇Request for Disclosure of Property

〇Compulsory Execution / Exercise of Security Interest

〇Creditor’s Representation in Bankruptcy Proceedings

■Business Revitalization and Insolvency

〇Civil Rehabilitation and Corporate Reorganization

〇Turnaround ADR

〇Out-of-Court Workouts

〇Bankruptcy and Special Liquidation

〇Representation in Selection of Sponsors

〇Advice on and Representation for Borrower Bankruptcies

〇Advice on and Representation for Supplier Bankruptcies/ Counterparty Bankruptcies

■General Legal Advice

〇Compliance

〇General Corporate

〇Expert Opinion (including those for foreign courts and international arbitration)

〇Comprehensive Legal Advice / Legal Second Opinion

〇Whistleblowing Hotline

Office

AI-EI Law Firm

9F Uchisaiwaicho-Tokyu Building,

1-3-2 Uchisaiwaicho, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 100-0011, Japan

Tel: +81-3-6205-8444

E-mail: [email protected]

Web: https://www.aieilaw.co.jp/en/