Keitaro Uzawa

• Representing various Japanese multinational manufacturers in their bilateral APAs and MAP cases with various countries, including US, Canada and Thailand, and providing broad Japanese law/tax advice in connection therewith.
• Advising a multinational manufacturer of scales and analytical instruments in connection with defense documentation upon their transfer pricing model restructuring.
• Providing advice on international tax restructuring and transfer pricing analysis, including benchmarking and modelling of various transactions, to a global semiconductor manufacturer.
• Providing Japanese tax and transfer pricing advice on converting their Japan subsidiary into a limited risk distributor for a Swedish wood product company.
• Representing a Japanese subsidiary of a US based multinational e commerce service provider with respect to the tax dispute pending at the National Tax Tribunal.
• Defending offshore mobile telecommunication service providers from Tokyo Regional Taxation Bureau in connection with their Japanese consumption tax refund claims.
• Representing a global medical device manufacturer in its tax audit by and the agreement with Tokyo Customs with respect to the customs valuation on imported goods.
• Advising a US-based online platformer with respect to their legal and regulatory issues for their Japan Business.
• Representing a Japanese subsidiary of an Indian IT company with respect to the litigation brought by the former president.
• Representing a US-based computer software company with respect to the copyright infringement litigation against a Japanese medical device manufacturer.
• Advising a Japanese solar energy EPC company with respect to the commercial litigation in Texas, US brought by the supplier.
• Representing a global rental office service provider in the acquisition of a local rental office service provider.
• Representing a Japanese electronic device manufacturer in the asset acquisition in the US from a global semiconductor manufacture.
• Representing a global semiconductor manufacturer in the acquisition of a part of semiconductor business from Japanese multinational electronics corporation through a joint venture.
• Advising an international gemmological grading institute with regard to its Japan operations, including tax issues associated with educational institutes and non-profit entities operating in Japan.

Articles/books

• "2023 Overseas Legal News", article in Business Homu, April 2023
• "Tax heaven rules in Japan," co-authored book published by Okura Zaimu Kyokai, March 6 2018
• "Note on the Consumption Tax Exemption for Virtual Currency", article in Asia-Pacific Tax Bulletin, 2017(Volume 23), No.3
• "PE Taxation," co-authored book published by Okura Zaimu Kyokai, Dec 28 2016
• "An update on Japan's consumption tax", article in Bloomberg BNA (Volume 12, no. 5), May 2014
• World Legal News, Recent Trend on Base Erosion and Profit Shifting, Bijinesu Houmu (in Japanese), December 2013
• Significance and Backgrounds of JOBS Act supporting fund raising by emerging growth companies and employment creation, The Lawyers (in Japanese), April 2013 (co-author)
• Gaming Developments in Japan - iGaming Business (in English), Issue 81, July/August 2013 (co-author)