Teraoka & Partners LLP

Teraoka & Partners LLP is recognized as a preeminent West Coast Pacific Rim law firm. Serving clients for over 40 years, we handle cross-border corporate and business transactions, mergers and acquisitions, employment, executive immigration and civil litigation, with Japanese languages services.

Our attorneys serve as general counsel to large and closely-held companies. We advise on most legal affairs affecting businesses, including incorporation, joint ventures/partnerships, limited liability companies, corporate-subsidiary issues, contract/distribution agreements and arrangements, commercial collections, real estate, commercial leases, broker liability, securities regulation, employer-employee matters, immigration matters, licensing, transportation issues, as well as mergers and acquisitions. Through our brain trust of associated counsels, we give our clients access to experienced patent and trademark counsel, estate planning and business litigation expertise, as well as legislative counseling in California regulatory matters.

We are active in US ? Japan mergers and acquisitions, representing American and Japanese companies.
Our firm?s Pacific Rim practice serves businesses and individuals throughout Asia, including Japan, China, South Korea, and the Philippines. We help American clients seeking to do business in Asia and Asian clients seeking to operate in the United States.

Our firm?s European practice serves businesses from Germany, France, Italy, Britain, and Norway. We help foreign corporations navigate the complex and often confusing regulations imposed on businesses by American federal and state governments.

We provide Japanese-speaking interpreting and translation services, both verbal and written, for our clients.

Teraoka & Partners LLP is a Martindale-Hubbell Bar Register of Preeminent Lawyers firm.
We are proud to have been operating since 1976. We serve as general counsel to global enterprises, as well as regional and local businesses, professionals and individuals. Teraoka & Partners LLP is result-oriented and dedicated to providing high quality professional services to its clients at reasonable rates.

We have established a sound reputation for reliability and excellence. Mr. Teraoka and the law firm have earned an AV rating from Martindale-Hubbell, the 100-year old attorney rating system, which is the highest rated category for superior legal skill and integrity. Mr. Teraoka has been recognized as one of the 5% of attorneys in Northern California, having been honored as one of the ?Super Lawyers of Northern California? since 2008 to the present.

Locations	No. of Attorneys
Los Angeles, CA	2
San Francisco, CA	13

Practice Areas	No. of Attorneys
Construction	1
Corporate	6
Corporate - General	2
Corporate - M&A	1
Entertainment and New Media	1
Intellectual Property - General	2
IP - Trademark/Copyright	1
Labor & Employment	3
Litigation	2
Litigation - General (consumer)	4
Litigation - Labor & Employment	3
Real Estate	2
Trusts and Estates	2