Contact: Steven L. Toronto, Charles C. Comey, or Venantius Tan
With more than 130 attorneys in Japan and China, Morrison & Foerster is uniquely positioned to assist Japanese companies with
their China-related investments. Morrison & Foerster is also the largest international firm in Japan, with more than 80 attorneys
in Tokyo. In China, we have more than 20 years of experience and is one of the few international law firms with significant
capabilities in each of China’s major commercial centers -- Hong Kong, Beijing and Shanghai.
Some of the Japanese companies that we have represented in recent China transactions are Recruit, Fujitsu, Hitachi, Toshiba,
SOFTBANK, Index Corporation, TDK, Sega and Rakuten. Select transactions include:
- SOFTBANK in Yahoo! China’s US$1 billion consolidation with Alibaba. We represented SOFTBANK as the major shareholder of both Alibaba and Tao Bao in connection with their consolidation with
Yahoo! China.
- Recruit/US$125 million investment in 51jobs. We are representing Recruit, Japan’s leading human resources company, in its $125 million investment in NASDAQ-listed 51jobs,
China’s provider of employment information services.
- Rakuten/US$110 million investment in Ctrip. We represented Rakuten, Inc., the leading Japanese Internet portal, in connection with its US$110 million investment in Ctrip.com
International, Ltd., China’s largest travel consolidator.
