Inoue, Koichi

Current Employment Position(s)

Partner

Languages

• English
• Japanese

Lawyer Overview

Since 1984, Koichi Inoue has practiced in the field of international transactions, investments, and dispute resolutions, with primary emphasis on Japanese tax law. His tax experience consists primarily of providing analysis and advice to clients in relation to their commercial transactions and restructurings and representing taxpayers in complicated administrative proceedings and tax litigation.

Koichi, together with colleagues in other Jones Day offices, advises multinational companies on complicated tax issues in transactions involving two or more jurisdictions and helps plan and implement the restructuring of their global operations. His experience spans a variety of industries, including pharmaceuticals, telecommunications, manufacturing, real estate development, financial institutions, and software industries.

Koichi regularly writes and lectures on tax and related subjects. Among other publications, he is a coauthor of Tax Aspects of Transactions with Foreign Corporations (4th ed. 2009) and The Interrelation between Tax Treaties and Domestic Tax Law (2007). He also has served as a visiting professor of Chuo Graduate School of Accounting and a lecturer of Aoyama Business Law Graduate School.

Areas of Practice

• Tax
• International/Cross-Border Planning & Transactions
• Mergers & Acquisitions/Tax
• Private Equity/Tax

Representative Cases

• Pfizer sells consumer healthcare business to Johnson & Johnson for $16.6 billion , (2009)
• Societe BIC S.A. purchases distributor of BIC products in Japan

West Practice Categories

Banking & Finance Law, Corporate Taxation, Estate & Gift Taxation, Excise Taxes, Income Taxation, International Law, International Taxation, International Taxation, International Transactions, Mergers, Acquisitions & Divestitures, Payroll Taxes, Property (Ad Valorem) Taxes, Sales & Use Taxes, Taxation Law

Bar Admissions

• Japan

Education

• Cornell University
• Tokyo Daigaku - Japan

Published Works

• Interaction between Japan's Tax Treaties and Domestic Tax Law, Bulletin for International Taxation, Vol. 61, No. 9/10 - 2007, published by IBFD, 2007
• The Interrelation between Tax Treaties and Domestic Tax Law, coauthor, published by Shoji Homu, 2007
• The Interrelation between Tax Treaties and Domestic Tax Law, coauthor, Journal of the Japanese Institute of International Business Law, Vol. 30, No. 7, 2002-Vol. 32, No. 11, 2004, 2004
• Tax Aspects of Transactions with Foreign Corporations, coauthor, Shoji Homu, 1996; 2d. ed. 2000; 3rd ed. 2002, 1996

Address

Kamiyacho Prime Place
1-17, Toranomon 4-chome
Minato-ku, Tokyo 105-0001, Japan

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