Questionnaire on Legal Function
These questionnaires are intended to understand legal functions (including relationships with lawyers) in each group company, especially in overseas group companies and Global Management Platform so that we can study how our legal support should be.
Please kindly answer the questionnaire listed below and fill in the answer in the response sheet hereto attached (hereinafter “Sheet”). If you do not know the exact number as to Question Nos. 2(1), (3), (4) and (5), please answer by estimate.
We appreciate your cooperation in advance.
1. Questions on Corporate General Information
(1) Name of corporate representativeCEO (Managing Director or equivalent thereof)
(2) Name of minor shareholders (If your company has many minor shareholders, please answer the number of them and the names of major ones.)
(3) Manufacturing items
(4) Items for sale
(5) Presence or absence of sales to the other companies than BS group companies.
(6) Destination of Products (Country basis)
(7) Category of the customer (e.g. Distributor, trading company, retailer, consumer)
2. Questions on Legal Function
(1) How many contracts (except HR/Labor related contracts) did your company enter into for the last three (3) years (from 2012 until 2014)?
How many of them are concluded with non-group companies?
How many of them are purchasingprocurement agreement fromwith non-group companies?
(2) Does your company have any department in charge of the following roles?
If yes, please state the name of such department and the number of its staff members.
Legal advice
Shareholders’ Meeting and Board Meeting
Acting as liaisons with lawyers
(3) Who or which department is reviewing contracts? If several persons or departments are involved, please state the percentage of work allocated therefor.
i. Only Business (e.g. sales, procurement) department reviews contracts
ii. Administration department including legal department reviews contracts based on requests from Business department
iii. Outside lawyer reviews contract based on requests directly from Business department or through Administration department
iv. Legal department in other group company of Bridgestone reviews contract based on requests directly from Business department or through Administration department (charged)
A. Name of the company
B. Scope of the service
(You don’t have to answer the Question A and B above if you send us a copy of the service agreement.)
v. Legal department in other group company of Bridgestone reviews contract based on requests directly from Business department or through Administration department (free of charge)
A. Name of the company
B. Scope of the service
(You don’t have to answer the Question A and B above if you send us a copy of the service agreement.)
(4) How many lawsuits are currently pending against your company? (If any, please fill in the details in the Sheet)
(5) Does your company retain any outside/contracted corporate lawyer (or have contacts in lawyers in case of necessity)?
If yes, please state
Name of the attorney and the firm.
Frequency of consultations with him/her
Type, category or outline of legal issues (e.g. business, contract, loan collection, litigation, intellectual property, labor)
(6) If there is any request to TBSC PS department, BSCAP/BSJ legalus, please state in the Sheet like;
Any concerns about legal issues
Any other law-related matters
If there are any mistakes in the abbreviated name and legal name (in English) of your company in the Sheet, please kindly correct them in red.
Please fill in your contact information in the last (rightest) two cells.
Thank you for your cooperation.