Israel Japan | Business Guide | 2023

A n international lawfirmwith offices in the United States, Israel, and the United Kingdom, Pearl Cohen’s priority is toprovide innovative legal advicewithmaximumcommercial impact. Pearl Cohen is one of Israel’s largest full-service law firms and the country’s largest intellectual property firm. For decades, our commitment to innovation and excellence has been earning the confidence of innovation-driven enterprises, including Fortune 500 and small-cap emerging companies, startups and entrepreneurs, investors, academic institutions and government-related entities. The firm maintains one of the leading hi-tech practices among Israeli law firms. Japan Desk As the foremost source of international commercial legal services in Israel, with profound and synergetic professional coverage in the U.S. and U.K., our Japan Group actively supports both Japanese and Israeli companies that are expanding their businesses respectively to each of these markets, playing a significant role in helping them obtain their goals and objectives. The very first questions that our Japanese clients ask us is “how to communicate with people in Israel? – how to best structure d e a l s w i t h I s r a e l i peers?” The likelihood of misunderstanding may create a huge hinderance on expanding your opportunities in Israel and in Japan. Businesses fromboth countries have significant DNA differences, have a different business culture and inmost cases, prefer different ways of communication and deal making. We are here to support. We are fortunate to support some Innovative Legal Advice with Maximum Commercial Impact of Japan’s leading private and publicly-owned companies, as well as Japanese strategic and VC investors, which have put their trust in us and in our deep understanding of the Japanese way of doing business. Our aim is to serve as enablers, helping companies fromboth countries to obtain the optimal business outcome while navigating all legal obstacles. Our ability to combine our deep understanding of the business culture differences with legal proficiency, allows our clients better achieve their goals. Our Israeli clients include companies at all stages and sectors, for whichwe handle the full gamut of corporate transactions, from initial formation, seed, and late-stage financing, through the development of commercial relationships and expansion abroad, and up to mergers or acquisitions of the assets. Based on our vast experience representing both Japanese and Israeli clients, we are proud that we can support our clients’ journey in Israel or Japan from A to Z. Signing the definitive agreement is not the end of our relationship with the client, rather we take it as the beginning. Our goal is set on serving as a bridge between Japan and Israel and tightening business relationships. We would love to maximize your touch point with Israeli peers, companies, and technology. Guy Lachmann パートナー、日本デスク代表 Israel-Japan > Business Guide > 2023 32 > Business Services > Pearl Cohen