Company: CNCKW
Filing Date: 2025-01-28
Form Type: F-1
Source: 0001213900-25-007203
Chunk: 192

Company: Coincheck Group N.V.
Filing Date: 2025-01-28
Form: F-1
Chunk 192
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 were awarded the “9 thWhite Company Award” in the diversity and inclusion category. Facilities We lease office space for our headquarters in Tokyo, Japan. We believe that our facilities are adequate and suitable to meet our needs for our business as currently conducted. Intellectual Property We strive to acquire intellectual property rights related to the services we operate, and we recognize that the protection of our technology and intellectual property rights is an important aspect of our business. In order to prevent the infringement of not only our own intellectual property rights but also those of third parties, we conduct preliminary investigations throughout our company and with legal counsel. We rely on a combination of patents, trademarks, trade secrets, copyrights, confidentiality procedures, contractual commitments and other legal rights to establish and protect our intellectual property. We generally enter into agreements with our employees and consultants that contain confidentiality provisions to control access to our proprietary information. Legal Proceedings We are involved in litigation and other legal proceedings from time to time in connection with the ordinary course of our business. We are also party to lawsuits related to the cybersecurity incident we experienced in 2018. We do not believe these lawsuits or any other current litigation or other legal proceedings that we are a party to, if determined adversely to us, could potentially, individually or in the aggregate, have a material adverse impact on our business, financial condition or results of operations. Regulatory Environment Based on the manner in which we operate our business, as described here and elsewhere in the document, including our account opening procedures, we do not believe that we are operating as an unregistered exchange, broker -dealeror clearing agency in the United States. 130 Overview of Regulatory Framework in Japan Japan has emerged as one of the largest cryptocurrency markets globally and was the first country to establish a regulatory framework for cryptocurrencies. In addition to enabling the registration of cryptocurrency exchange service providers wishing to provide cryptocurrency exchange services to residents in Japan, this framework seeks to protect customers and to prevent cryptocurrency -relatedmoney laundering and terrorism financing. However, Japanese law does not have a unified legal framework for digital assets. The legal status of any given digital asset under Japanese law is determined in accordance with their functions and uses. In other words, whether a given digital asset constitutes a “security token” (i.e., ERTRs or ERTRISs under the FIEA) or a “crypto asset” will be objectively determined based on the functions and uses of the digital asset in question and the legal requirements it meets. More specifically, according to the Payment Services Act (the “PSA”) and public comments issued