Private Clients

Our firm provides expert advice on estate planning, trust creation, and various legal issues concerning assets for individual investors, entrepreneurs, and family offices both domestically and internationally.

Recent engagements include:

• Representing a real estate owner in litigation concerning requests for rent increases on commercial properties.
• Providing legal advice based on private international law (Japan’s Act on General Rules for Application of Laws) to a major Japanese financial institution, involving the inheritance of a Brazilian national deceased in Japan (applying Japanese law through renvoi).
• Advising a major Japanese financial institution regarding the inheritance of a Venezuelan national residing in Vietnam, focusing on the application of laws from a private international law perspective.
• Drafting a Prenuptial Agreement and providing legal counsel to a European family business owner.
• Representing a U.S. entrepreneur residing in Japan in a dispute related to the division of an estate.