Mangyo Kinoshita speaks on panel at IBA

southgate awarded Cross Border M&A Boutique of the Year for Japan by Corporate LiveWire Global Awards

southgate awarded Cross Border M&A Boutique of the Year for Japan by Corporate LiveWire Global Awards

Eric Marcks published an article in the August 2017 edition of Business Homu for the first installment in a series of articles by foreign attorneys practicing in Japan.

Mangyo Kinoshita speaks on Global M&A at Nikkei Business School Seminar

Eric Marcks speaks on RPA & AI at Accenture Digital Hub

southgate has been selected as one of four finalists for the Asian Legal Business Japan Law Awards 2017 in the category of Boutique Law Firm of the Year for our work on cross-border transactional matters. The winner will be announced at a ceremony on June 7, 2017.

Mangyo Kinoshita is ranked as a Band 3 Corporate/M&A lawyer in Japan by Chambers and Partners in its Global 2017, placing him among the top Japan-qualified transactional lawyers in Japan. The guide relayed comments from clients saying that Mangyo is “very good and knowledgeable” and “gives extremely dedicated advice”.

Asian Legal Business (“ALB”) featured southgate in its 2017 “Firms to Watch” list. ALB selected law firms “that are small but are already making waves, and either challenging (or with the potential to challenge) much larger law firms for their share of the work”. southgate was one of only 15 law firms in Asia – […]

Eric Marcks led a case study of an M&A transaction at a conference hosted by the Japan Patent Office in Tokyo on January 29, 2017. The objective of the session was to introduce and discuss legal issues that arise in cross-border acquisitions of technology companies.