Vol. 11: Ken Siegel (Morrison & Foerster Japan) /News from the Nikkei Weekly dated 5.7.07
Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) have certainly become big news in the Japanese business scene. There is an unprecedented amount of foreign investment in Japanese companies, and Japanese companies are venturing more frequently outside of the home country. The growing M&A scene, related regulations and their effect, the realignment of top brand name companies – when it comes to doing M&A business in the world’s second largest market, Morrison & Foerster Japan are in the center of the wave.
Ken shares with us his views on the nuts and bolts of how MoFo operates, key differences between tcontract law as it’s practised and understood in Japan as opposed to Western countries, and much, much more.
The Nikkei Weekly Interview podcast series: Broadcaster Peter Barakan, eigoTown.com President Russell Wills, or Producer Terri MacMillan interview prominent foreign business people in Japan about business and the economy, along with the weekly headlines - in English.