Baker & McKenzie won the South East Asia Award at the 2012 Chambers Asia-Pacific Awards >>Legal Client Alerts related to the recent Tohoku Earthquake 2012/5/16 Baker & McKenzie provides pro bono advice to the Qatar Friendship Fund to support recovery efforts after the Great East Japan Earthquake 2012/5/16 Derek Simmons has joined our office as a foreign associate. 2012/4/12 Currently we have openings in Tokyo for a Business Development Coordinator, a Junior/Middle level Associate and an IT Trainer/Helpdesk. 2012/4/9 Baker & McKenzie Tokyo Announces Office Relocation   Currently, there are no scheduled seminars. 2012/5/30 Seishi Ikeda will give a presentation entitled "Handling of litigation concerning material misstatements in securities report: Need-to-know points for companies and executives" at a seminar hosted by the Board Director Training Institute of Japan. (this seminar will be held in Japanese) 2012/5/15 Proposed 2012 amendment to the Real Estate Syndication Business Law - Expected to increase the use of the tax efficient GK-TK structure for real estate investments in Japan 2012/5/2 Japan - 2012 Tax Update 2012/4/26 Landmark High Court Decision Allows Trademark Infringement Claims Against Online Mall Operators 2012/4/26 The IP High Court Clarifies the Scope of Product-by-Process Claims 2012/5/16 Baker & McKenzie provides pro bono advice to the Qatar Friendship Fund to support recovery efforts after the Great East Japan Earthquake 2012/4/9 Baker & McKenzie Tokyo Announces Office Relocation 2012/4/5 Yoshiaki Muto was quoted in the Japan Times's article, "Foreign law firms aim for equal treatment" on April 5, 2012. 2012/3/2 Hideo Ohta, Kana Itabashi, Keiko Fukuyama, Yumiko Hagioka, Yuichiro Omori, Takehito Sekiguchi, and Masao Tozaki co-authored "Chapter 2: Business Environmental Law & Regulations," Understanding the Manufacturing Process Flow Through Business Environment Law, published by LexisNexis. 2012/1/2 The Winter 2012 issue of The Asian Lawyer quoted Yoshiaki Muto's comment regarding Japanese companies advancing overseas. 2012/3/26 Baker & McKenzie Tokyo was ranked Band 1 for Tax and International Trade by Chambers Asia Pacific Awards 2012. We also received top tier rankings for Banking & Finance, Capital Markets, Competition/Antitrust, Corporate/M&A, Dispute Resolution, Employment, Intellectual Property, Investment Funds, Projects and Energy and Real Estate. Our lawyers were recognized as key individuals in their respective fields: Banking and Finance: Naoaki Eguchi, Gavin Raftery Capital Markets: Seishi Ikeda, Hiroyoshi Kuromaru, Ken Takahashi Competition/Antitrust: Akira Inoue, Fumio Koma Corporate/M&A: Hiroshi Kondo, Hideo Norikoshi, Jiro Toyokawa Dispute Resolution: Yoshiaki Muto, Haig Oghigian Employment: Yasuhiro Fujii Intellectual Property: Yasunori Hashiguchi, Kenichi Nakayama International Trade: Junko Suetomi, Edwin Whatley Investment Funds: Yusaku Ono Projects and Energy: Paul Davis, Anne Hung Real Estate: Seishi Ikeda, Alexander Jampel Tax: Hideyuki Yamamoto, Edwin Whatley