With the second highest gross domestic product in the world, Japan is Asia’s trendsetter. Tokyo, in turn, leads the way in Japan. It is not only a major international financial center, but also the world’s largest metropolitan economy. Several decades of centralized growth, beginning in the late 1940s, spurred the rapid expansion of the city’s economy. Today, Tokyo is home to the country’s highest concentration of corporate headquarters and financial institutions. Following a recent period of challenges – the heavily regulated 1980s, during which Japan seemed an especially difficult market for westerners to enter, and the slump of the past decade – the Japanese economy is now much more open.

Greenberg Traurig offers both U.S. and Japanese clients a convenient gateway to international business opportunities via the firm’s Tokyo office ("Greenberg Traurig Gaikokuho Jimu Bengoshi Jimusho", or Greenberg Traurig Registered Foreign Lawyers' Office). We provide a sophisticated “two-way street” – a unique combination of legal services and cultural understanding both for U.S. clients doing business in Japan and for Japanese clients doing business in the west.

The firm’s Tokyo team includes experienced, multilingual attorneys who are admitted to practice in both Japan and the United States. We work closely with attorneys from throughout GT who are part of the cultures and business communities of both countries.

The Tokyo corporate team represents both U.S. and Japanese companies in a wide range of cross-border business transactions. Our work encompasses mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, corporate financings, restructurings and bankruptcies. We also focus on venture capital investments in the high-tech sector, as well as associated corporate and securities matters.

Our Real Estate Practice advises Japanese and international real estate developers and investors on acquisitions, dispositions and joint ventures. We also assist developers and major investment banks, institutional lenders, borrowers and investors in negotiating and closing a wide variety of financing transactions.

Working with others from around our firm, we provide additional legal services in the areas of banking, foreign investment, litigation, information technology, media and intellectual property.