Asset Management / Funds

Mori Hamada offers a wide range of legal services to issuers and financial advisors in structuring and offering foreign bonds and other financial instruments. Additionally, we provide operational and administrative support to foreign investment trusts and publicly held companies in the asset management sector.
Our involvement in asset management dates back to the 1970s. We have continued to assist our clients since then in managing the complexities of regulatory regimes in Japan and overseas. Since advising on the formation of Japan’s first venture capital fund in 1982, we have been at the forefront of forming, managing and investing in private equity funds both domestically and internationally. Our large team of professionals, including lawyers, judicial scriveners and paralegals, offers legal advice and ancillary services for all stages of the asset management process. This includes solicitation and investment regulations, securities registration, marketing of financial products, compliance with corporate disclosure, drafting agreements and other post-offering requirements.

We provide a full suite of services for investment funds, from advising on offering securities in Japan to implementing their transactions through drafting contracts, preparing securities registration statements, and ensuring compliance with filing requirements.
We represent offshore issuers in Japan, assisting them with compliance obligations for investment funds established in foreign jurisdictions such as Luxembourg, Ireland and the Cayman Islands. We also provide legal advice and services for structuring instruments issued by Japanese investment funds, documenting these transactions, and managing day-to-day operations relating to such investments.

Our experienced team of lawyers, judicial scriveners and paralegals assists in establishing and registering investment managers and advisors, and Type 1 and Type 2 financial instruments business providers. We also assist our clients with filing applications for the qualified institutional investors exemption.
We have a long history of providing overseas investment managers with English-language advice on investment management in Japan, especially on the details of the initial stages of investment management and the structuring of financial instruments.

We offer a wide range of services related to private equity funds, including structuring investment funds and preparing agreements, investment applications, memoranda and other documents for the formation of investment limited partnerships, civil law partnerships, limited liability partnerships, and anonymous associations. We handle the registration of financial instruments businesses, regulatory compliance for qualified institutional investors, notification of special businesses, and regulatory compliance for establishing foreign funds. We also assist investors, both public and private, with reviewing agreements and preparing memoranda of understanding for investments in domestic and foreign funds, and negotiating with fund managers. Our lawyers are actively involved in drafting laws and regulations related to funds, including participation in government study groups. As a leading firm in Japan’s private equity fund practice, we are committed to advancing the fund practice area.