Firm Info
KITAGAWA & EBERT is committed to excellence and quality business legal services. We emphasize responsive personal service, business law experience, efficiency, positive results, and cost-effectiveness. We are aggressive advocates and sensitive to the issues which are unique to Japan businesses. We are the "#1 Choice" of many prominent companies and successful individuals. We focus on pragmatic business solutions to assist our clients to succeed in a competitive business world. Since our firm is not burdened with a large franchise-type firm's overhead, our legal fees are reasonable. Our firm has extensive substantive experience in business law services and is AV-rated (Martindale-Hubbell's highest rating in knowledge, professionalism and ethics).
Lisa M. Kitagawa, Esq. is the third and last American lawyer to have graduated from Kyoto University. She is fluent in Japanese and also attended Tokyo University. She was one of the youngest lawyers to pass the California State Bar. James R. Ebert, Esq. is an attorney and a California Certified Public Accountant. Both Ms. Kitagawa and Mr. Ebert are licensed to practice law in California and in Georgia. They are also both admitted to practice before U.S. federal and appellate courts, and the U.S. Supreme Court. Ms. Kitagawa has years of experience at large international law firms, and Mr. Ebert also worked in the international sections and Japan practice groups of PricewaterhouseCoopers and Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu. We have extensive legal research resources and provide efficient current law research and experience. Our legal services include the following:
- Corporate
(Incorporation, Minutes, Bylaws, Stock Certificate, Mergers and Acquisitions, Capital, Tax Free Reorganizations, Asset Acquisitions) - Litigation
(Contracts, Collections, Mediations, Arbitrations, Trials) - Employment
(Overtime, Employee Handbooks, Discrimination, Reorganization, Discipline, Termination, Sexual Harassment, Meal & Break Violations, Wrongful Termination Litigation, EEOC/DEFH Investigations, Training, etc.) - Collections
(Demand Letters, Litigation, Attachment, Foreclosure, Execution of Judgments) - Contracts
(Management Agreements, Asset Acquisitions, Production Agreements, Distributorships, Joint Ventures, etc.) - Real Estate
(Purchase and Sales, Leases, Loans, Construction Litigation, Foreclosure) - Estate Planning / Probate
(Revocable Living Trusts, Irrevocable Life Insurance Trust, Estate Tax Planning for Multinationals, Charitable Trusts, Family Limited Partnership, Probate Administration, Trust Administration, Probate & Trust Litigation)
KITAGAWA & EBERT's clients are from a broad spectrum of industries, including finance, pharmaceuticals, nutritional supplements, technology, cosmetics, automotive, manufacturing, food distribution, retail, banks, electronics, logistics, distribution, paper pulp, textile, travel, software, toys, entertainment, real estate, construction, etc. A partial client list includes:
- All Nippon Airways Co., Ltd. (ANA)
- ANA Sales Americas
- AISIN
- Autobacs
- Coco's Japan Co., Ltd.
- Cyber Entertainment, Inc.
- Daiwa Health Development, Inc.
- Denken Co., Ltd. (KDF)
- Eizo Nanao Technologies, Inc.
- Exile Skimboards
- Fujitsu-Ten Corp. of America
- GReddy Performance (Trust)
- Inoue Manufacturing, Inc.
- ISS Translators, Inc.
- Japan Pulp & Paper Corporation
- The Japan Foundation
- Jodo-In
- Kissei America, Inc.
- Kobayashi Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.
- Kojima America
- LJ Distributors, Inc.
- Mamiya-OP Co., Ltd.
- Marukan Vinegar
- Mitsui-Soko (U.S.A.), Inc.
- Nippon Pillar Packing Co., Ltd.
- Nissei America, Inc.
- Nishimoto Trading Co., Ltd.
- Orange Bakery, Inc.
- Noevir U.S.A., Inc.
- Prestige/Premio
- Rheon U.S.A.
- Safeshred Co., Inc.
- Seiko Epson Corp.
- SMK
- Sumikin Bussan Corporation
- Sumitomo Warehouse
- Susteen, Inc.
- Taiheiyo Cement U.S.A., Inc.
- Tamiya America, Inc.
- Toei Animation
- Tokyu Travel America, Inc.
- Toshiba America Information, Inc.
- UFJ Bank
- US Bank
- Wilshire Credit Corporation
- Wakunaga of America Co., Ltd.
- Zett Corporation