Kaoru Haraguchi is the attorney director of Haraguchi International Law Office. Haraguchi is certified to practice law in Japan, the US and Mongolia. After 15 years of experience in law firms in Japan, the U.S., and Europe, he established his own firm 16 years ago, with a focus on corporate law, overseas expansion, dispute cases (litigations, arbitrations, mediations), etc.

Areas of Expertise

• Development of Japanese Companies outside Japan (in Mongolia)
• Development of Japanese Companies outside Japan (other than in Mongolia)
• Assisting Foreign Company doing business in Japan
• International Succession
• Litigation, Mediation and Other Dispute Resolution Practice
• Bankruptcy/Civil Revitalization/Corporate Reorganization
• Labor/Employment
• General Corporate
• Merger and Acquisition
• Finance
• Real Estate
• Anti-Monopoly Law
• International Debt Collection
• Copyright Law
• Criminal Case

Consultation Fees

• Initial consultation: 10,000 yen for 1 hour.
• Advisory fee starts from 50,000 yen per month.
• For dispute cases like litigations, where economic benefits can be easily determined, a system of upfront fees and success-based remuneration is applied.
• International debt collection operates on a success-based remuneration system.
• For cases where economic benefits are hard to determine, fees are based on hourly rates. The hourly rates are as follows: Chief Lawyer: 20,000 to 40,000 yen per hour; Associate Lawyers: 10,000 to 20,000 yen per hour; Paralegals: 5,000 to 10,000 yen per hour.
• The choice of the above fee structures will be determined in consultation during the initial meeting.