{"id":9392,"date":"2026-04-21T13:05:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T13:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/9392\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T13:05:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T13:05:08","slug":"vt-opens-osaka-office-expanding-its-international-presence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/9392\/","title":{"rendered":"V&#038;T opens Osaka office, expanding its international presence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        <a href=\"https:\/\/law.asia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/VT-opens-Osaka-office-expanding-its-international-presence.jpg\" data-caption=\"Photo courtesy of V&amp;T Law Firm\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"464\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/VT-opens-Osaka-office-expanding-its-international-presence-696x464.jpg\" alt=\"V&amp;T Law Firm Opens Osaka Office\" title=\"V&amp;T-opens-Osaka-office-expanding-its-international-presence\"\/><\/a>Photo courtesy of V&amp;T Law Firm<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Beijing-headquartered V&amp;T Law Firm has launched an office in Osaka, marking its second branch outside the Chinese mainland as it steps up its international expansion.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Dou Shaowu, head of V&amp;T\u2019s Osaka office, told China Business Law Journal: \u201cAs Japan\u2019s \u2018financial and asset management special zone\u2019, Osaka offers strong potential in emerging sectors such as life sciences, alongside highly attractive tax incentives. Establishing an early presence here will help capture future growth opportunities.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Dou specialises in areas including dispute resolution, intellectual property, and banking and finance. He has practised at V&amp;T for more than a decade, previously working at the firm\u2019s Shanghai office.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The firm now operates 19 domestic offices across cities including Shenzhen, Shanghai, Chengdu, Wuhan and Xi\u2019an, in addition to its two branches outside the Chinese mainland, in Hong Kong and Osaka.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The new Osaka office, which will focus on cross-border business, asset management and wealth management, is located in Room 201 of the Nishitenma Building.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In recent years, several renowned Chinese law firms have established a presence in Japan, including Jingsh Law Firm (Yokohama, 2026), <a href=\"https:\/\/law.asia\/law-firm\/yingke-law-firm\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Yingke Law Firm<\/a> (Tokyo, 2024), <a href=\"https:\/\/law.asia\/law-firm\/east-concord-partners\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">East &amp; Concord Partners<\/a> (Tokyo, 2024) and <a href=\"https:\/\/law.asia\/law-firm\/allbright-law-offices\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">AllBright Law Offices<\/a> (Tokyo, 2022).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Photo courtesy of V&amp;T Law Firm Beijing-headquartered V&amp;T Law Firm has launched an office in Osaka, marking its&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9393,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[6606,7989,549,12,7990,7991,7992,1030,6651,7993,8,7994,7995,7996,85,6219,7997,52,7998,7999,8000],"class_list":{"0":"post-9392","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-osaka","8":"tag-asset-management","9":"tag-banking-and-finance","10":"tag-beijing","11":"tag-china","12":"tag-cross-border-business","13":"tag-dispute-resolution","14":"tag-dou-shaowu","15":"tag-hong-kong","16":"tag-intellectual-property","17":"tag-international-expansion","18":"tag-japan","19":"tag-law-firm-expansion","20":"tag-life-sciences","21":"tag-nishitenma-building","22":"tag-osaka","23":"tag-shanghai","24":"tag-tax-incentives","25":"tag-tokyo","26":"tag-vt-law-firm","27":"tag-wealth-management","28":"tag-yokohama"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9392\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}