# Counsel / Senior Counsel, Legal, Japan

**Company**: The Walt Disney Company (Japan) Ltd.
**Location**: Minato-ku
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Legal
**Industry**: Entertainment

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## Description

The Walt Disney Company (Japan) Ltd. is seeking an experienced attorney to join Disney’s Legal team. As a Counsel or Senior Counsel, you will be primarily responsible for legal matters related to the development, production, and acquisition of Japanese content for Disney’s streaming services and television channels.

**Responsibilities:**

- Provide legal support for the expansion and growth of Disney’s businesses in Japan, focusing on media content acquisition, production, channels, and direct-to-consumer areas.

- Prepare, negotiate, review, and interpret various agreements and documents related to content development, production, acquisition, distribution, marketing, and exploitation.

- Conduct legal analysis on chain of title, intellectual property rights, and other rights management matters.

- Draft, negotiate, and evaluate talent contracts related to development and production services.

- Provide counsel on structuring development and production engagements and other production-related matters.

- Review and draft documents related to government approvals and licenses for channels.

- Offer advice and training to creative teams on production clearance matters.

- Instruct, oversee, and manage outside counsel.

- Negotiate with counterparties to agreements related to Disney businesses in Japan.

- Advise and counsel Disney Japan business executives on legal and regulatory issues affecting the Japan market.

- Coordinate with other members of Disney’s Legal Department to provide legal support and advice to Disney businesses in Japan and support for Asia-Pacific and other global projects.

**Requirements:**

- J.D., LL.B., LL.M., or equivalent degree.

- Admitted to practice law, preferably in Japan, although experience in US and other English-speaking jurisdictions is also considered.

- Solid experience and understanding of Japanese corporate/commercial law and Japanese intellectual property law, particularly copyright, trademark, and unfair competition.

- Keen analytical insight and strong legal capability.

- Understanding of the legal and business customs and practices of a US-based multinational enterprise.

**Preferred Qualifications:**

- Familiarity and experience with business practices of the Japanese entertainment, publishing, television, and digital media industries.

- Ability to evaluate and reconcile issues from the business unit and enterprise level perspective.

- Exceptional organizational, prioritization, and time management skills.

**Work Experience:**

- A minimum of 5 years (for Counsel) or 10 years (for Sr. Counsel) of legal experience in a law firm and/or multinational corporate legal department, focused on IP and licensing practice, ideally in an entertainment context.

**Language Skills:**

- Fluent Japanese and English language ability with dual language proficiency in negotiating, drafting, and reading.

## Skills

### Required
- Japanese corporate/commercial law
- Japanese intellectual property law
- copyright
- trademark
- unfair competition
- IP and licensing
- Japanese

### Nice to have
- Japanese entertainment industry
- digital media industries
- organizational skills
- prioritization skills
- time management skills

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