Toshio Furuta

About

Toshio Furuta is a corporate lawyer serving as Representative Attorney at Clair Law Firm in Tokyo. He registered as a lawyer in 1991 and is a member of the Tokyo Bar Association. He opened his own law office in April 1993, which became Furuta & Associates in 2002 and took the name Clair Law Firm in July 2008. His practice covers legal work for venture companies, venture finance, business reorganization and corporate law. He became an outside auditor at CanBas and NanoCarrier in 2007 and at Netyear Group in 2009, and now serves as an outside director and audit committee member at the listed companies CanBas and Modalis Therapeutics. He was earlier named as a leader of the Founder Institute Tokyo chapter. Toshio brings a legal and board-level perspective on venture company support, venture finance, corporate governance and business reorganization. The work gives him direct exposure to how venture companies handle legal structure and financing, and how listed companies are overseen at board level. Toshio is particularly relevant to conversations around legal structure for startups, venture financing terms, corporate governance, and compliance.