Our goal is to recognize your legal needs and provide for those needs. We want you to feel confident that your matter is being handled properly and efficiently. We bring our capabilities to provide prompt, first class legal services with innovative yet practical business solutions. Your satisfaction is our goal.

We are here to fulfill your corporate and tax law needs. We want you to feel confident that you will be kept informed of the status of your matter and have a single attorney at the firm who is responsible and knowledgeable for all of your matters. This defines our business boutique law firm and contributes to your success and the success of our firm.

We sometime serve as general counsel for corporations and represent them in all aspects of their corporate life--from the original establishment of the enterprise through all aspects of its evolution and operation.

Max Yoshimura, Esq., CPA
Managing Member
WILG

Masahiro "Max" Yoshimura is the Founder and Managing member of WILG. Before establishing this law firm, Mr. Yoshimura, also a CPA, worked for prestigious international law firms and largest international accounting firms in New York, Seattle and Denver.

Mr. Yoshimura, a native of Japan, graduated from a Tokyo university with a business degree in 1983. Currently, he is a member of the Executive Committee of the International Practice Section of Washington State Bar Association and the Board of Directors of the Seattle Chapter of Washington Society of CPAs. He served on the boards of the Japan America Society of Washington, a Japanese business association, and a Japanese alternative school in the past.

Practice Area: Corporate and Taxation

Education (U.S.):

University of Wisconsin Law School, Juris Doctor
    Wisconsin International Law Journal (Senior Managing Editor)
    U.S. Bankruptcy Court, Madison (Judicial intern)

Rutgers University, B.S., Accounting
    Graduated with Highest Honors
    Beta Gamma Sigma

Publication:
"Tax War" Between the US & Japan under IRC §482: Is There a Solution?
12 Wisconsin International Law Journal 401 (1994)

Admitted To Practice:
    Washington
    Colorado
    U.S. Supreme Court
    U.S. Tax Court
    U.S. Courts of Appeals for the Ninth & Tenth Circuits

License: Certified Public Accountant (Active)

Memberships:
    American Bar Association
    Washington State Bar Association
    American Institute of CPAs
    Washington Society of CPAs

Additional Languages: Japanese, Fluent (Read, Write & Speak)