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San Francisco, CA (PRWEB) November 16, 2011
Teraoka & Partners LLP, a preeminent Pacific Rim law firm in California, is celebrating its 35th anniversary.
In keeping with this celebration, the firm is also happy to announce that its Managing Partner, Steven G. Teraoka, has again been named a Super Lawyer of Northern California, recognizing him in the top tier of practicing attorneys in Northern California. Steve recalls that at the age of 13 he already knew that he wanted to be a lawyer with his own firm.
Steves family roots, cultural traditions and natural affinities run deep in both Japan and the United States. In April 1906, after a long and arduous voyage from Japan via Hawaii, his grandfather sailed into the San Francisco Bay in April 1906. The City was still burning from the Great San Francisco Earthquake. Even in flames, the City beckoned as an exotic new home for the Teraokas.
During law school, Steve worked in a prestigious Beverley Hills entertainment law firm. I worked on projects for Robert Mitchum and Toshio Mifune and met Jimmy Durante, to name a few. He also interned for the United States Securities Exchange Commission at its Western Regional Headquarters in Los Angeles. After law school, he studied international tax and business transactions in Japan, and then Steve returned to San Francisco to work for a boutique corporate securities, real estate and tax firm and to pursue the dream of having his own practice in the City By The Bay. In 1976, he opened his own practice in a tiny office on San Franciscos Barbary Coast. There, he could touch both walls with his outstretched arms, and the lunchtime odors of the Clown Alley hamburger shop wafted into his window each day.
Steve admits that when he started his practice, he did not consciously intend to build a Pacific Rim business practice. I really enjoyed interning with the SEC, and I enjoyed doing deals, and wanted to continue work in securities and business transactions.
Like many successful attorneys, Steve has a strong competitive streak. Do not tell him that he cannot win the USTA California District Tennis Championship (his team did, in 2010), or finish a marathon at age 60, and do not tell him that he cannot bust a California monopoly (he did, in 1980). Indeed, a strong driving force in Steves career has been the compunction to succeed against all odds.
Steves penchant for taking on challenges brought him to the forefront of a major effort to deregulate the tour bus industry in San Francisco in the early 1980s. After numerous successful appearances before the PUC obtaining licenses for sight seeing companies, Steve ultimately caught the notice of Japan Travel Bureau, then one of the worlds largest travel agencies. Against all odds, and in spite of the fact that he was the rookie attorney in the courtroom, Steve led the way to win the precedent-setting case that deregulated bus tours and sight seeing operations in California. Ultimately appealed to the California Supreme Court, the ruling favoring Steves clients was allowed to stand.
From that time forward, Steve has consistently earned the respect of many significant Asian business leaders in California and the U.S. Today, his firm has a portfolio of Pacific Rim business clients that are indeed blue chip, including Kikkoman Sales USA, Inc., JFC International, Shogakukan, the Goldilocks Group of Companies, Furukawa Sangyo North America, Nomura Research Institute, and affiliates within the NTT Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Group.
Even stronger than his competitive spirit is Steves talent for helping Japanese business clients to thrive and grow in the United States. He also enjoys counseling American businessmen as to how to best engage with Japanese businesses for mutually beneficial results. In that sense, Steve has always sought to bridge these two cultures, their economies and their commerce.
In 1976, he joined the Japanese Chamber of Commerce of Northern California (JCCNC). In 1994, Steve was elected President of that organization and, as President, welcomed Their Majesties the Emperor and Empress of Japan in their historic Royal Visit to San Francisco. Speaking at the official Welcoming Ceremony for the Emperor and Empress at the St. Francis Hotel, before an audience of over 900 people, was truly one of the great honors and personal highlights of my professional career. He has continued to remain active on the Board of Directors of the JCCNC for over 30 years, seeking to facilitate the successful establishment and growth of Japanese businesses in the U.S.
He has successfully negotiated contracts for American celebrities to endorse Japanese products. In that regard, he has enjoyed working with Karen and Richard Carpenter, Cheryl Ladd, Steven Spielberg, Farrah Fawcett and Sammy Sosa. My early stint in Beverly Hills served me well. I was not intimidated by Hollywood entertainment lawyers and was familiar with their complicated licensing structures.
He helped Seiji Horibuchi found and build Viz Media in the United States, which ultimately brought Pok
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