{"id":825,"date":"2019-06-29T00:28:08","date_gmt":"2019-06-28T15:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kitahama.or.jp\/english\/?post_type=professional&#038;p=825"},"modified":"2024-08-30T16:04:13","modified_gmt":"2024-08-30T07:04:13","slug":"kotaro-harada","status":"publish","type":"professional","link":"https:\/\/www.kitahama.or.jp\/english\/professionals\/kotaro-harada\/","title":{"rendered":"Kotaro Harada"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Kotaro Harada is an attorney practicing in the areas of M&amp;A, general corporate legal affairs, real estate, construction, inheritance, bankruptcy, and civil rehabilitation. Mr. Harada has handled a variety of M&amp;A and due diligence matters, as well as planning reorganization schemes and rendering advisory services.&nbsp;Mr. Harada also specializes in the areas of real estate and construction dispute resolution, and has been representing a number of clients such as home builders, major construction companies, brokers (sales\/leasing), developers, condominium management companies, and other parties. With respect to corporate legal affairs, his clients include home builders, real estate brokers, transportation companies, photovoltaic equipment installers, condominium management companies, information &amp; technology companies, medical corporations, and other entities.&nbsp;He also responds to the various common legal issues of his clients.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Work Highlights<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kitahama.or.jp\/english\/news\/4925\/\">Restitution for Unjust Enrichment on the Grounds of Conflict-of-Interest Transactions concerning a Management Dispute between Family Companies<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Corporate acquisition matter representing a listed company <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Shareholders\u2019 derivative lawsuit<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Preparation of reorganization plan as inheritance strategy<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Case disputing construction defects of a building built by a mid-size construction company<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Matter of voluntary liquidation of a home builder using the rehabilitation plan development scheme of SME revitalization support councils<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Rendering advice on general shareholders\u2019 meetings for client companies<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>General corporate matters, etc.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li> Preparation of family trusts\/testamentary substitute trusts  <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Education \uff06 Professional Career<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table><tbody><tr><td>Jan 2020 \u2013 Present<\/td><td>Kitahama Partners, Partner <\/td><\/tr><tr><td>May 2015<\/td><td>Registered as a real estate transaction agent<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Mar 2015<\/td><td>Registered as a licensed strata management consultant<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Dec 2012<\/td><td>Graduated from the Legal Training and Research Institute of the Supreme Court of Japan; Admitted to practice in Japan; Joined Kitahama Partners<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Mar 2010<\/td><td>Kyoto University Law School (J.D.)<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Mar 2007<\/td><td>Kyoto University (LL.B.)<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":35,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-825","professional","type-professional","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.2 - 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