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Legal considerations when investing in Japan’s aquaculture industry

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Legal considerations when investing in Japan’s aquaculture industry

Yasunari Sugiyama, Naoki Matsumoto and Kenya Suzuki authored a series of articles entitled “A legal consideration of investments in the aqua-business (the aquaculture industry) by financial institutions", which were published in Banking Law Journal 21 over two months:

1. A legal consideration of investments in the aqua-business (the aquaculture industry) by financial institutions - Part 1, co-authored by Yasunari Sugiyama and Naoki Matsumoto, appears in Banking Law Journal 21, No. 871 (June 2021)
2. A legal consideration of investments in the aqua-business (the aquaculture industry) by financial institutions - Part 2, co-authored by Yasunari Sugiyama, Naoki Matsumoto and Kenya Suzuki, appears in Banking Law Journal 21, No. 872 (July 2021)

Authors

杉山 泰成

Yasunari Sugiyama is a partner in the firm's Asset Finance Group and Agri-Food Practice Group. In the finance area, his major and unique areas include financing of movables (lease, installment purchase and secured loan), supports for overseas expansion by financial institutions, acquisition finance and domestic and cross-border real estate transactions. In particular, he has extensive experience in proposing and implementing business plans and schemes available for each target jurisdiction taking into consideration the specific civil and commercial laws and financial regulations regarding the movables and real estates in Asian, European and North and South American countries and their entity-based and geographical applicability and coverage in terms of the overseas expansion of Japanese financial institutions. Further, in the agri-food area, he aims to provide legal services for the purposes of the introduction of smart agriculture, business expansion and diversification of financing sources, development and scaling of new business such as solar-sharing and onland aquaculture business, in each case while organizing the various laws and regulations applicable to each process of value chains of the agricultural, forestry and fishery business.