Biography

Masato Shibata is attorney-at-law and a partner of Legal Profession Corporation CAST. He is admitted in Japan and New York. He graduated from Tokyo University and has an LL.M degree from New York University. He is a STEP (The Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners) member of the Hong Kong branch. His experience as a lawyer is more than 20 years and extends to wide-ranging areas such as cross-border transactions, corporate, M&A, litigations and family matters. He has worked at the M&A department of Daiwa Securities SMBC.

FIRM DESCRIPTION

The CAST GROUP provides a one-stop service in a wide range of fields in order to lead companies and individuals to achieve success in Asian countries such as Japan, China (including Hong Kong and Taiwan), Vietnam and Myanmar.

CAST GROUP comprising of;

• Legal Profession Corporation CAST.
• CAST Consulting Company Ltd.
• CAST Consulting (Shanghai) Company Ltd
• CAST Investment Hong Kong Co. Limited.
• CAST Law Vietnam Co. Ltd.
• CAST Consulting (Myanmar) Company Ltd.

Legal Profession Corporation CAST provides high quality one-stop legal, accounting and tax services to international clients.

Over the past ten years, the group has gained tremendous success mainly by providing support for Japanese companies to advance into and retreat from China. The group is able to show fully its strength of the broad experience. know-how and expertise concerning cross-border transactions among many Asian countries.

The group has Japanese and Chinese attorneys, accountants and tax accountants who can provide legal, accounting and tax services in English.

Chinese and Japanese language which gives the group the advantage of providing comprehensive one-stop services all over Asian countries.