Takujiro Urabe focuses his practice on corporate matters including venture capital and mergers and acquisitions. He has actively consulted with clients in the telecommunications, technology and software industries. His experience includes advising a non-Japan-based company in establishing and implementing its wireless business in Japan, and advising on a corporate governance and compliance matter involving an investment in Japan.

In 2006 he went to the United States to attend The George Washington University for his LL.M. and was admitted to practice in New York. He then spent one year in the firm’s Los Angeles office before returning to the Tokyo office in 2008.

Representative Experience

• Advising in the sale of a worldwide diagnostics business by one of Japan's largest digital imaging product manufacturers to a US-based leading manufacturer of biomedical testing instruments systems.
• Representing a large global distributor of electronic parts in its acquisition of a distributor in Japan.
• Representing an investment organization of a large semiconductor chip maker in its investment in venture companies in Japan.
• Developing and implementing regulatory strategies for a US-based aircraft manufacturer to obtain Japanese licenses for an in-flight online Internet connectivity service.
• Advising a US-based aircraft manufacturer to obtain Japanese licenses for a maritime online Internet connectivity service.