southgate was ranked as one of the top firms and Eric Marcks and Takahito Fujii have been ranked among top lawyers in the following categories for the Legal 500 Asia Pacific 2024:<\/p>\n
Corporate And M&A: Independent Local Firms
<\/u>southgate
Leading Individuals: Gaiben – Eric Marcks (the only international lawyer at a Japanese law firm ranked in this category)
Recommended Individuals: Bengoshi – Takeshi Iitani and Gaku Yoneyama<\/p>\n
We were described as \u201c\u2018exceptionally knowledgeable\u2019 <\/em>team at M&A.<\/em>\u201d And clients observed: TMT: Independent Local Firms One referee observed that \u2018Southgate have a unique ability to bridge international gaps via a strong knowledge of international law. It\u2019s more than knowing the law, their unique superpower is how to navigate the gray areas and unwritten \u201cguidelines\u201d in Japanese business and culture.\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n For details please see the Legal 500 Asia Pacific website below. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Legal 500 Asia Pacific 2024 Ranks southgate\/Eric Marcks\/Takahito Fujii<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southgate-law.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southgate-law.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southgate-law.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southgate-law.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southgate-law.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2627"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/southgate-law.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4936,"href":"https:\/\/southgate-law.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2627\/revisions\/4936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southgate-law.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southgate-law.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southgate-law.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\u201cThey understand startup\u2019s and entrepreneur\u2019s situations and emotional journeys well. Their advice is not only legally very sound and insightful, but they have deep empathy and strong communication skills.<\/em>\u201d
\u201cTheir ability to be a high-level adviser and \u201ccoach\u201d on very difficult, transformative business decisions.<\/em>\u201d
\u201csouthgate is exceptionally knowledgeable in navigating the grey areas of Japanese business and culture.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n
<\/u>southgate
Leading Individuals: Gaiben – Eric Marcks (the only international lawyer at a Japanese law firm ranked in this category)
Rising Stars: Bengoshi – Takahito Fujii
Recommended Individuals: Takeshi Iitani, Gaku Yoneyama, and Akira Kawashiro<\/p>\n
https:\/\/www.legal500.com\/c\/japan\/corporate-and-ma-independent-local-firms\/<\/a>
https:\/\/www.legal500.com\/c\/japan\/tmt-independent-local-firms\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n