The Legal 500 Asia Pacific ranked southgate as one of the top firms in its Corporate and M&A: Independent Local Firms category.
For details please see Legal 500 Asia Pacific website below.
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Mangyo Kinoshita co-authored a book entitled “Legal Consultation for NPOs” published by Eiji Press.
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Eric Marcks and Mangyo Kinoshita published an article entitled “Seeking Innovation Through Corporate Venture Capital” in the September/October 2016 issue of Japan SPOTLIGHT.
Takeshi Iitani and Eric Marcks published an article entitled “Recent Delaware Supreme Court Decision: Liability for Negotiating Terms Significantly Different from Those in Non-Binding Term Sheet” in the September 2016 issue of Mergers & Acquisitions Research Report.
Mangyo Kinoshita co-authored an article entitled “International M&A Study Group Report on ABA Model Stock Purchase Agreement: MAC Clause” in the July 2016 issue of International Business Law.
Mangyo Kinoshita and Eric Marcks spoke on “Corporate Venture Capital in the US – recent trends and typical pitfalls for Japanese investors” in a seminar sponsored by the Financial Management Forum on July 8, 2016.
Eric Marcks was quoted about CFIUS (Committee on Foreign Investment in the US) in an article appearing in the June 26, 2016 issue of Nikkei Veritas regarding China’s growing appetite for cross-border acquisitions.
Takeshi Iitani published an article entitled “Stock-for-Stock Acquisitions of Foreign Companies by Third-Party Allotment” in the August 2016 issue of Business Homu.
Mangyo Kinoshita and Eric Marcks published an article entitled “Recent Trends regarding US Regulatory Authorities’ Review of M&A Transactions” in the June 2016 issue of Mergers & Acquisitions Research Report on tax-motivated tax-inversion transactions and on increased scrutiny of inbound deals by US competition and national security authorities.
Takeshi Iitani was featured in an article in the May 18, 2016 Nikkei Business Daily in relation to force majeure and related legal doctrines in connection with natural disasters such as the Kumamoto Earthquake.