Attorney Keiji Yoshikawa has been appointed as an Outside Auditor of Scalar, Inc. The company develops and sells middleware products that ensure consistency between databases and detect data tampering using distributed ledger technology (a technology belonging to blockchain technology in a broad sense). Scalar, Inc. | Take control of your data (scalar-labs.com) Recently, optimal database selection according to the nature of stored data and database distribution accompanying cloud migration of databases have become mainstream. For many companies using multiple databases, ensuring consistency between databases is becoming an urgent issue. This problem becomes particularly prominent when multiple companies merge through M&A, resulting in multiple databases coexisting. Scalar provides middleware that solves such problems. At our firm, Attorney Yoshikawa, who has a science background, along with other members, strives to keep up not only with the latest laws and regulations but also with cutting-edge technologies including blockchain, and has supported new business ventures for clients. Particularly in areas with industry regulations such as financial regulations, we have been engaged in regulatory authority responses with agencies such as the Financial Services Agency, and we also support the establishment and operation of external affairs and public affairs departments that conduct lobbying. Please feel free to contact us when regulatory authority responses or lobbying are needed. If your company is interested, please contact us via the inquiry form.