Tokyo Barrister: Start the law firm bankruptcy

Chapter 880 Query Results

In the meeting room of Nippon Steel, Kitahara, Miyakawa, and Niwa were still registering the land, factory buildings and other valuable fixed assets of Nippon Steel. Their work was so serious that even the bankruptcy administrator was amazed, and sometimes even asked Kitahara and his team to borrow some materials.

After looking through many documents, Kitahara and others took a short break on the way.

At this time, they had produced quite a lot of results.

At least it covers Nippon Steel’s major production bases in the country.

Stack after stack of heavy documents represent the results of their recent work.

"It's going well." Niwa raised his hand and wiped the sweat off her forehead. "If we keep up this pace, we should be able to finish it in two or three days."

Indeed, as Niwa had said, things were going very smoothly.

However, the smoother things went, the more weird Kitahara felt.

Their work at Nippon Steel has never been disturbed.

This seems like a strange sign.

Logically speaking, Nippon Steel should not welcome them.

Using some despicable methods.

For example, if the company needs to use this conference room, I'm sorry, please move out. We also need to use that conference room, so please use it and move out.

Or maybe the printer is broken, sorry.

We still need to ask the legal department for advice on whether these files can be shown to you.

And so on and so forth.

It's like a football match, where the home advantage is not just about being familiar with the field. There are also home fans who harass the away team's hotel, deliberately make the away team sleep poorly, arrange for them to practice in a poorer venue, or break the air conditioning when they are resting.

It would be easy for Nippon Steel to use these methods.

With just a little trick, he could make himself, Miyagawa and Niwa exhausted.

However, Nippon Steel did not do so.

This couldn't help but make Kitahara feel strange.

"What are you thinking about?" Miyakawa stretched out his hand in front of Kitahara and waved it, "Why do you seem to be in a daze?"

"I wonder why Nippon Steel is so cooperative with us." Kitahara said, "You see, we have been working here for nearly a week, and we have not been harassed by Nippon Steel. The most obvious evidence is that they allow us to come and go freely even on weekends with Nippon Steel ID cards, which is a bit abnormal."

"Perhaps the bankruptcy procedure is designated by the court, so they dare not act recklessly?" Miyakawa said, "After all, the bankruptcy administrator is also here, and they always have to consider the bankruptcy administrator's face."

"They may be afraid of public pressure," Niwa added. "After all, the Nippon Steel bankruptcy case has attracted so much attention. If they come to harass us again, and if they leave us some evidence and it is exposed in the media, it may cause even more unfavorable public opinion to the company."

Kitahara stood up and walked to the door of the conference room again. He looked out in the direction of Tanimoto, Tamashiro, and Abe.

"The lawyers at Nippon Steel have been busy as well," Kitahara said, "but they don't need to be so busy. The major asset count now involves the bankruptcy administrator and the accounting firm. They just need to prepare the debt claim declaration materials. However, seeing how busy they are, I'm afraid things won't be that simple." Except for the first day when the three lawyers came over to provoke at Nippon Steel, there has been no movement since then.

A possibility emerged in Kitahara's mind.

That is, they may be in the process of transferring assets before the bankruptcy ruling takes full effect.

Kitahara immediately said, "Miyagawa. Now you sort out the existing fixed assets on hand and immediately go to the city hall to check their ownership status."

Niwa was a little puzzled after hearing this, "Wait a minute, Kitahara. It will take a long time to check the ownership status of so many fixed assets. We are only two or three days away from finishing the arrangement of these assets. We can check the ownership status after we finish the arrangement."

"Nippon Steel may have made some moves in advance." Kitahara said, "Otherwise, it is impossible for these three lawyers, Tanimoto, Tamashiro, and Abe, to be so calm and not use any tricks against us. It is very likely that many of Nippon Steel's assets have been secretly transferred away!"

Hearing Kitahara's judgment, Miyakawa was shocked. "Impossible! This is illegal! How dare Nippon Steel do this?! The Tokyo High Court has issued a bankruptcy ruling. How dare they continue to transfer assets?!"

"Anything could happen." Kitahara said, "Let's go! Let's go now! We'll go to the city hall together!"

The three people in the conference room quickly packed their bags.

Carrying the sorted fixed asset list, he headed to the local city hall.

Before leaving, they even locked the door of the conference room.

However, after seeing Kitahara and his group hurriedly leave, Tanimoto and other lawyers suddenly became curious about what Kitahara and his group were doing. They immediately called the administrative staff of Nippon Steel to open the locked meeting room of Kitahara and his group. Tanimoto and other Nippon Steel lawyers immediately flipped through the materials of Kitahara and his group in the meeting room.

Turn left, turn right.

It is nothing more than registering Nippon Steel's fixed assets.

And it’s not finished yet.

Tanimoto, Tamashiro, and Abe are all well-known lawyers in the field of bankruptcy. They noticed that the style of registering fixed assets used by Kitahara and his team was not the format used by veterans.

Yu Cheng picked up one of the documents and started reading it. "What's the point of doing this? Aren't they just duplicating the work of the bankruptcy administrator? Moreover, the content registered here doesn't look like that of an expert in the field of bankruptcy law. They are really a bunch of outsiders!"

at the same time--

Kitahara and the others had already rushed to the city hall. The staff at the city hall frowned when they saw that they were actually looking up the ownership of so many assets. However, seeing that they had the Libra sunflower seal on them, they knew that the people in front of them were lawyers. Therefore, the staff at the city hall had no choice but to do as they were told.

"There are so many that we may not be able to check them all today." The staff at the city hall said, "We can only send you 50 results for every 50 we check. Just check as many as we can today."

"No problem." Miyakawa bowed to express his gratitude, "Thank you for your hard work."

Soon, the wait lasted from day to dusk.

By the time the city hall got off work, they received about 350 asset ownership query results.

They - all of them were mortgaged to the bank!

(End of this chapter)