Venture companies generate new industries, create employment, and are vital for allowing dynamic changes in industry. In recent years, the stock market for start-up ventures has developed and an entrepreneur-friendly economic system and regulatory environment are beginning to appear in Japan. With venture capitalists aggressively increasing their investments in Japanese venture companies, a great number of new venture companies have been formed and gone through initial public offerings. Fortunately, given recent revisions to the Japanese Commercial Code, venture companies have more options and flexibility in connection with corporate governance mechanisms and financing techniques.
Mori Hamada & Matsumoto is able to draw upon its broad base of practice areas in advising venture company clients through all stages of their growth and development. The firm's large corporate practice enables it to handle comlex investment schemes, often involving multiple classes of securities issued in series of financings. Similarly, the firm's experience in mergers and acquisitions and business alliances is often called upon as venture company clients grow and mature. Many of the firm's venture cleints are in niche markets and require legal and regulatory advice on new and emerging technologies. For example, lawyers from the firm's large intellecutual property practice group assist clients in the IT and biotechnology sectors. When venture clients eventually go public, the firm's expertise in the capital markets area is called upon.
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