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Trade compliance predictions for 2020: View from Japan

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Trade compliance predictions for 2020: View from Japan

Kazuho Nakajima authored an article on the amendments to Japan’s export controls and investment restrictions on national security grounds in the December 2019 edition of World ECR, a journal covering export controls and economic sanctions, published by DC Houghton Ltd., London, UK. 

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中島 和穂

Kazuho NAKAJIMA

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  • Tokyo

He has extensive experience handling cases involving complex legal issues, such as mergers and acquisitions by a public-private investment fund in the context of a business turnaround, a high-value dispute between a securities company and a stock exchange, adoption of anti-takeover defense measures for the first time in Japan, expansion of foreign businesses into the Middle East involving geopolitical risks, and commercial arbitration involving sizable claims regarding M&A price adjustment clauses. Recently, he been advising on risk assessments for transactions, contract drafting, voluntary self-disclosure to government authorities, responses to enforcement actions by the authorities, and establishment of internal control systems with respect to economic security regulations. In particular, he engages in numerous transactions involving economic sanctions, export controls and other economic security regulations regarding conflicts between the US and China over technology competition and human rights issues in Myanmar, Iran and Russia.