Ushijima & Partners‘ practitioners are well placed to deal with the full range of labour and employment matters, including employment litigation, negotiations and investigations. Leading the group is Rikisuke Yamanaka, who ’is very professional and has a lot of experience’ and handles an array of labour law issues. The team often works with international clients, and is praised for being ‘very responsive, sensitive to and familiar with global business needs and norms’ as well as ’helpful in explaining unique aspects of Japanese law and culture to global management’.
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- 'Very responsive, sensitive to and familiar with global business needs and norms, helpful in explaining unique aspects of Japanese law and culture to global management. An excellent and reliable guide to Japanese legal issues.'
- 'Rikisuke Yamanaka is really the only individual at Ushijima we have worked with, but I would count him among the best of our network of employment attorneys around the world. He is always professional and very responsive.'
- 'The law firm collaborates well with our company.'
- 'Rikisuke Yamanaka is very professional and has a lot of experience.'
- 'I’ve been working closely with the employment lawyers at this firm for many years. They have assisted numerous American clients with Japanese operations and have provided practical and highly responsive advice.'
- 'Rikisuke Yamanaka is very smart and creative and very easy to work with. His English is excellent and he understands how to provide the advice that is expected from American companies.'
- 'The team has ample experience of handling employment law issues in Japan for foreign clients, such as cross-border employee transfers.'
- 'Rikisuke Yamanaka is very responsive, and he can provide commercially practical advice based on his experience of various employment law matters in Japan.'
Lawyers
Practice head
The lawyer(s) leading their teams.
Rikisuke Yamanaka