Real Estate
In our real estate practice, we offer such services as (i) comprehensive legal advice concerning large-scale urban redevelopment projects, land readjustment projects and subleasing businesses and (ii) advice on real estate related laws and regulations such as the Building Lots and Buildings Transaction Business Act, the City Planning Act and the Building Standards Act. We also assist in negotiating and drafting contracts in real estate transactions involving unit/sectional ownership interests in buildings and co-ownership interests, in addition to sales and leases involving simple ownership.
Bringing out the best in our expertise in finance-related practice, we further advise on new issues in real estate business today, where traditional practices related to real estate business and finance respectively are rapidly and increasingly merging. For example, in real estate transactions involving beneficial interests in a trust, such finance-related legislation as the Trust Act, the Trust Business Act and the Financial Instruments and Exchange Act need to be examined.
In cooperation with tax consultants, we also advise on real estate transactions for which tax issues are taken into consideration, proposing, for example, not only the usual form of sales of real estate but also utilization of M&A structures that have certain merit for the assignor.
In addition, Iwata Godo advises on environmental laws and regulations related to real estate such as regulations on soil contamination, waste disposal, and hazardous materials such as asbestos and PCB, and represents clients in many lawsuits and other procedures in litigation and arbitration related to real estate transactions, including leasing of large-scale apartment buildings, providing assistance in dispute resolution.
Publications Related to Real Estate
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2022.08
Kanai Masanori authored a commentary on the MOJ's guidance and proposed regulations on transferring ownership of inherited land to the government (Shoji Homu Portal website)
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- KANAI Masanori
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2022.05
Maruyama Shinji's commentary on revisions of the Act on Land and Building Leases is available on the Shoji Homu Portal Site.
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- MARUYAMA Shinji
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2020.10
Okushi Kenichi and Kashiwagi Kensuke co-authored "[Follow-up Report] Impact of COVID-19 Infections on Legal Affairs of Real Estate Transaction" which appears in September 2020 issue (Vol.57) of ARES Real Estate Securitization Journal.
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- OKUSHI Kenichi KASHIWAGI Kensuke
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2020.06
Okushi Kenichi and Kashiwagi Kensuke co-authored an article titled "[Quick Report] Effects of New Coronavirus Infections on Legal Affairs of Domestic Real Estate Transactions and Summary of Issues," which appears in the Vol.55 of ARES Real Estate Securitization Journal.
- Author：
- OKUSHI Kenichi KASHIWAGI Kensuke
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2020.02
Adachi Makoto's commentary titled "The Ministry of Justice Publishes the 'Interim Draft for the Revision of the Civil Code and the Real Property Registration Act (for Lands of Unknown Owners)' (December 3, 2019)" is available on the Shoji Homu Portal Site.
- Author：
- ADACHI Makoto
Lectures, Seminars and Conferences Related to Real Estate
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2020.06
Okushi Kenichi and Kashiwagi Kensuke delivered a lecture entitled "Impact of New Coronavirus Infection on Legal Affairs of Real Estate Transactions " at Financial Management Forums, Inc.
Speaker： OKUSHI Kenichi KASHIWAGI Kensuke
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2020.05
Okushi Kenichi and Kashiwagi Kensuke, delivered a lecture entitled "No. 4270 Impact of the Expansion of New Coronavirus Infection on Real Estate Transactions: What is the Real Issue Today" at Kinyu facsimile Shimbunsha.
Speaker： OKUSHI Kenichi KASHIWAGI Kensuke
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2019.12
Okushi Kenichi delivered a lecture titled "Amended Law of Obligations and Important Points of Building Master Lease Contracts and Dispute Resolution in Real Property Finance" at a seminar room of Financial Management Forums, Inc.
Speaker： OKUSHI Kenichi
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2019.08
Okushi Kenichi delivered a lecture titled "Legal Practice for Specific Amendment on Provisions of 'Sale and Purchase Agreement for Real Estate' and ‘Sale and Purchase Agreement for Beneficiary Interest in Real Estate Trust’ Considering Enforcement of Amended Civil Code as of April 1, 2020” at the JPI Conference Square.
Speaker： OKUSHI Kenichi
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2019.06
Okushi Kenichi delivered a lecture titled "Key Points of Contracts and Dispute Resolution regarding Building Master Lease with Focus on Effects of Amended Law of Obligations" at a seminar room on the second floor of the Koami-cho Yasuda Building.
Speaker： OKUSHI Kenichi
News Related to Real Estate
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2019.04
Okushi Kenichi is appointed as a Secretary of Real Estate Tech Association for Japan.