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Koichi Takai

Koichi Takai

Osaka

Partner
Osaka Bar Association

Practice Areas

  • Corporate revival (voluntary liquidation, civil rehabilitation and corporate reorganization),Insolvency
  • M&A
  • Corporate business law
  • Matters relating to shareholders’ Meeting
  • IPO
  • Corporate cases, Corporate non-contentious cases
  • Circular transactions, Researches on corporate misconduct such as accounting fraud, responses to disputes
  • Private finance initiative
  • Labor cases, non-contentious cases (employer side), Responses to collective bargaining and the Labor Standards Inspection Office, Prepare rules of employment, etc.
  • Tax litigation
  • Responses to disputes regarding product liability, defects/ flows of machines
  • Real estate transactions, Real estate related disputes
  • Debt collection, Preservation of claim
  • Legal matters related to educational institutions
  • Inheritance related cases
  • Soil Contamination Countermeasures Act

Biography

1965 Born in Osaka
Mar. 1984 Osaka Ibaraki High School
Apr. 1985 Admitted to Kyoto University Faculty of Mathematical Engineering
Apr. 1986 Transferred to Kyoto University Faculty of Law
Mar. 1992 Kyoto University Faculty of Law (LL.B.)
Apr. 1994 The Supreme Court's Legal Research and Training Institute (46th term)
Midosuji Law Firm (currently, Midosuji LPC)
Jan. 2010 Partner of Midosuji LPC (- present)
Jan. 2014 Member of Equity Commission of Toyonaka City (- Oct. 2018)
Feb. 2014 Member of Equity Commission of Toyonaka/Itami City Clean Land (- Oct. 2018)
Nov. 2014 Passed The Official Business Skills Test in Bookkeeping, 1st grade –The Japan Chamber of Commerce and Industry (JCCI)-
Apr. 2016 Outside company auditor of Showa Boeki Co., Ltd. (- Dec. 2023)
Feb. 2018 Chairman of Equity Commission of Toyonaka City (- Oct. 2018)
Apr. 2019 Third-party committee member of Social Welfare Organization Saiseikai Imperial Gift Foundation, Inc., Osaka (-present)

Experience

  • Filing of civil rehabilitation proceeding
  • Served as petitioner in civil rehabilitation proceedings for companies (e.g. an apparel maker, a restaurant operator, a construction firm for building utilities, rebar fabricators, etc.)
  • Served as trustee (e.g. a food processor, a construction materials firm, precision instruments manufacturer, etc.)
  • Served as supervisor (Published in The Turnaround & Credit Management Quarterly No. 132, p.44, [Table 10])
  • Reconstructive bankruptcy case through a non-abusive company split transaction (Published in The Turnaround & Credit Management Quarterly No. 136, p.107)
  • Negotiation for joint venture agreement concerning formation and operation of an overseas subsidiary
  • Delisting of a subsidiary’s stock by share exchange into the listed parent company’s shares
  • Business transfer cases (e.g. an apparel maker’s retail store network, golf course business)

Publications

  • “Round-tripping: Examination of Old but New Accounting Fraud Schemes” (Business & Law LLC, August 2022)
  • “Changing Work Environment and Labor Law/ Practice under Covid-19 pandemic: Legal Analysis on Working Hours Management at Remote Wok and Job-focused Employment” (Business & Law LLC, June 2022)
  • ”Guidebook for Companies Act” , co-author (Shin Nippon Hoki, Publishing Co., Ltd.)
  • Legal Practice for Disciplinary Actions -Q&A and Case Study (Shin Nippon Hoki, Publishing Co., Ltd. in September 2014) , Joint Author
  • “Use of non-abusive company split in business revitalization – Case example on fair distribution to financial creditors-“, co-author (P.107 of Business revitalization and Credit management No. 136)
  • “Reorganization and reconstruction of educational institutions”, co-author (SHOJIHOMU Co., Ltd., June 2011)

Lectures

  • “Techniques for Corporate Management to Avoid Troubles ~Actual Practice Based on Work-Style Reform~” (Osaka Bar Association, Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises Support Center in January 2020)
  • “Points of the Work-Style Reform Laws and Supreme Court Decision on Equal Pay for Equal Work – in terms of audit, etc.” (Japan Audit & Supervisory Board Members Association, in August 2019)
  • Gist of Labor Reform Law and Examples of Supreme Court Judgments regarding Equal Pay for Equal Work, for the Companies to Launch their IPOs (PRONEXUS Inc. in October, 2018)
  • Points to Note in Labor Management for the Companies to Launch their IPOs ~ Regulations on Overtime Work and How to Respond to the Regulations ~ (PRONEXUS Inc. in November, 2017)
  • Overtime Payment to Medical Doctors in actual practice based on the Latest Supreme Court Judgments (Integrated Committee of Business Strategy & HR Labor Management Sections, VHJ Study Group, in October, 2017)
  • Overtime Payment to Medical Doctors in actual practice based on the Latest Supreme Court Judgments (Midosuji LPC in August, 2017)
  • “Circular Transactions – Points to note in terms of audit, etc.” (Japan Audit & Supervisory Board Members Association, in October 2016)
  • “Dealing with Misconduct, Study Seminar (Circular Transactions)” (co-hosted with Deloitte Tohmatsu Financial Advisory Co., Ltd., in December 2014)
  • “Labor issues happening around small and medium enterprises (Dismissal) ~ President! Are you sure about such dismissal? ~ Workshop, S Kinki Certified Public Tax Accountants’ Association, South Branch in November 2013)
  • “Merger of Educational Institutions, Integration and Split of Educational Institutions” (“Legal issues relating to reorganization and reconstruction of private schools” Symposium hosted by Osaka Bar Association Satsuki kai Training section in June 2009)
  • The third term Kansai PFI School “Business Contract” (then Japan PFI Association (now Japan PFI・PPP Association))
  • “Companies Act ~ President! Tax Accountant! It’s against the law. “(Workshop, Kinki Certified Public Tax Accountants’ Association, South Branch in October 2005)
  • “Risk management case studies ~ Why President makes a wrong judgment?” (Tatsuno Chamber of Commerce in March 2005)
  • “Checkpoints for Handling of Personal Information in practice – Toward Full Enforcement of Act on the Protection of Personal Information” (The 25th CRIN/Information Forum in March 2005)
  • The 2nd term Kansai PFI School “Participation in PFI Consortium, Risk and Responsibility of SPC” (then Japan PFI Association (now Japan PFI・PPP Association) in January 2005)
  • Points to note for discovery of personal information and damages, etc. due to leak of personal information, etc. (Credentials Committee for Supervisor dealing with Personal Information in October 2004)
  • The 1st term Kansai PFI School “Business contract and Monitoring” (then Japan PFI Association (now Japan PFI・PPP Association) in August 2004)

Activities

  • Member of Osaka Bar Association Judicial Committee
  • Member of Discipline Committee, Osaka Bar Association
  • Member of Japanese Global Network for Bankruptcy Lawyers