- Chairman: Hajime Watanabe
- Managing Partner: Hajime Watanabe
- Number of partners: 10
- Number of lawyers: 4
- Languages: English and Japanese
Firm Overview:
STW & Partners was established on April 1, 2007 by eight lawyers who left Mori Hamada & Matsumoto, one of the largest firms in Japan to form a new cutting-edge law firm. By combining the wealth of highly specialised knowledge and experience that each partner at STW & Partners brings to the firm, they are able to provide innovative legal advice in a flexible and effective manner that is tailored to each individual matter while maintaining a broad perspective unfettered by any one particular field.
The firm is combining its efforts and constantly striving to provide comprehensive legal services that is genuinely high quality to each of their clients. The firm offers a wide range of legal services, including a provision of legal advice with respect to the management and organisation of a company,multi-national and cross-border transactions, general corporate matters, complex domestic and international litigation and arbitration and other dispute resolution matters, insolvency, intellectual property, M&A, finance and antitrust law matters.
Main Areas of Practice:
The firm offers a wide range of legal services, including the provision of legal advice with respect to the management and organisation of companies, multi-national and cross-border transactions, general corporate matters, complex domestic and international litigation and other dispute resolution matters, insolvency, intellectual property, M&A, finance and anti-trust law matters. All the lawyers at the firm have experience in dealing with dispute resolution matters in both domestic and international aspects including matters relating to IP, antitrust and contractual disputes.
As a mid- size firm, they do not have any particular practice group which makes them a wholly unique international firm in Japanparticularly in dispute resolution. The firm is able to provide a strong team of lawyers with expertise in dispute resolution, for cases involving various types of legal disputes.
Areas of PracticeManagement & Organisation of Companies
Multi-National Cross-border Transactions
General Corporate
Complex Domestic
International Litigation
Dispute Resolution
Insolvency
Intellectual Property
M&A
Finance
Anti-Trust Law