Kojima Law Offices
Date: Thursday 1 June, 2017
Time: 7:00pm – 9:00pm
Venue: Kojima Law Offices
Gobancho Kataoka Bldg. 4F
Gobancho 2-7, Chiyoda-ku
Cost: Free (includes light food and refreshments)

Working with India: The law firm’s role in Facilitating Fulland Effective Participation
India has long promoted foreign investment in their country but there have been very few
successful projects there. In fact, some companies have pulled out of India completely. In order totake advantage of the available opportunities in India, one needs to navigate the rapidly changing
business and legal environments, as well as understand how to effectively negotiate withdetermined Indian parties. And yet at the same time, far-reaching changes do not happen overnight.
For these reasons, there remains in India the need for experienced counsel that can assist clientsto ensure that neither well-established nor newly-promulgated laws create obstacles to successful
participation.
Why India?

Overview of Existing Framework for Investment in India

Regulatory Challenges

Case Study

Venue: Kojima Law Offices
Gobancho Kataoka Bldg. 4FGobancho 2-7, Chiyoda-ku
Tokyo 102-0076 Japan (see below for map)
This event is open exclusively to JICN Members and potential member guests.
Approved for New York Continuing Legal Education (CLE) credits.
Please RSVP by email to events@jicn.jp

TO JOIN JICN MEMBERSHIP, please sign up at http://www.jicn.jp/membership/.
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SPEAKER PROFILES
Hiromasa Ogawa
Mr. Ogawa is a partner at Kojima Law Offices. He was admitted to the Japanese Barin 1993. Mr. Ogawa focuses his practice on the areas of international commercialtransactions, outbound direct investments (especially into India), international anddomestic taxation, mergers and acquisitions, and employment matters. To learn
more about Mr. Ogawa’s India-related experience, please refer to his profile page at
http://www.kojimalaw.jp/profile/profile_005.html (Japanese only).

Hirokazu Amemiya
Mr. Amemiya is a partner at Kojima Law Offices. Mr. Amemiya was admitted to theJapanese Bar in 2005 and is also admitted to practice in California. He attended theUniversity of Tokyo as well as the London School of Economics and Political
Science for his LL.M. in International Business Law. Mr. Amemiya specializes incross-border investments and dispute resolution with a heavy focus on India. Mr.
Amemiya was assigned to India twice for a few months each time (in 2007 and 2012),
and is familiar with the Indian legal environment.

Lynn F. Pickard
Mr. Pickard is a foreign attorney at Kojima Law Offices. He attended New York
University and was admitted to the New York Bar in 1971. Mr. Pickard practices in
the areas of international business and general business law and has done
extensive work for Kojima Law Offices involving India.

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for providing legal advice to employer organizations. Members are not required to be licensed attorneys in any jurisdiction.
JICN is looking to include Head of Legal as well as their department staffs.
Please feel free to invite your colleagues and in-house legal eagle peers to join the JICN. Membership is free and theevents are also generally free of charge thanks to the generous support of our sponsors.
TO JOIN MEMBERSHIP, sign up at http://www.jicn.jp/membership/.
The JICN Executive Board is: Will Herbert – President; Mikako Cho –Treasurer; Akiko Kikuchi – VP Membership; Teruo Saito –VP of Conferences; Arshad Karim – VP of Cooperating Organizations; Royanne Doi – VP of Career Pursuits; Chika Hirata – VP ofEvents; Catherine O`Connell – VP of JICN 301 Sessions; Ikuko Ikeda – VP of Events; and Grady Loy – VP of JICN 301 Sessions.

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JICN 2015–2016

Events Schedule Topic and Sponsor

Dec. 9, 2015

Legal Community Winter Party (co-sponsored with the RBA)

Dec. 10, 2015

Compliance and Risk Issues for Management in 2015 (Herbert Smith)Jan. 21, 2016

Legal Privilege Issues for In-House Counsel (Latham Watkins)

Feb. 18, 2016

The Art of Corporate Crisis Management (Nagashima Ohno & Tsunematsu)

March 30, 2016

Practical Employment Separation (Tozai Sogo Law Office)April 13, 2016

Building an Ethical Organization

April 21, 2016

Contract Management (Apttus)

May 27, 2016

Japanese Tax Law Practices For In-house Counsels (TMI Associates)

June 30, 2016

Managing of Third Parties and Associated Risks (Hogan Lovells)

July 14, 2016

Financial Restructuring in Japan: Overview & Cross-border Issues (Anderson Mori & Tomotsune)

August 2016

- Summer Break -September 29, 2016

Hear From the Guru on Revamped Trade Secret Laws in US/JP (Paul Hastings)

October 26, 2016

Utilizing and leveraging Warranty & Indemnity Insurance in M&A transactions (Allen & Overy)

November 10, 2016

What You Should Know about EU Rules for the International Data Transfer (Jones Day)

December 15, 2016

Innovation. Expansion. Growth. Opportunities and Challenges in FinTech (Baker & McKenzie)

January 19, 2017

LGBT in the Japanese Workforce

February 9, 2017

Brexit: What next? Challenges and opportunities

Kojima Law Offices
Gobancho Kataoka Bldg. 4F, Gobancho 2-7 Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 102-0076 Japan
Tel: 03-3222-1401
Email: webmaster@kojimalaw.jp
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