Yuka Minoda

Mergers & Acquisitions

• Supported a Japanese listed holdings company in its share transfer to acquire a manufacturer of overhead line fittings for power lines.
• Assisted a Japanese listed taxi company with its share-for-share exchange transaction to wholly acquire a gas station operator company in order to expand its business.
• Advised merger filing cases for Japanese manufacturers to establish a joint venture, including support for merger filings in Germany, Poland, and China.

Corporate matters

• Assisted a U.S. health tech company to successfully establish a Japanese subsidiary company.
• Assisted with corporate secretarial matters, including the conduct of in-person shareholders meetings of two Japanese listed companies.

Consumer law matters

• Supported a major listed railway company in Japan to initiate its new platform service. The support included ensuring the compliance of the new platform service with Japanese consumer laws, such as the Specified Commercial Transaction Law, the Act against Unjustifiable Premiums and Misleading Representations, etc.
• Reviewed the advertising materials for a major Japanese telecommunications carrier from the perspective of Japanese consumer laws.

Investigation cases

• Joined a third-party committee to investigate charges of inappropriate accounting at a Japanese listed company, which specialized in research, development and sales of display devices such as smartphones, related products, and their parts.
• Participated as a member of a special investigation committee by a third party to investigate an alleged inappropriate inspection work, cited by the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism of Japan, which was committed by a Japanese listed company that manufacturers aircraft interiors, aircraft seats and other aircraft instruments.