Creating Business by Building Bridges
From Europe to Japan and Back
What We Do
Global Bridges supports its clients with their Business Development
Our focus is on Business Development in Europe for Japanese companies and in Japan for European clients. Our clients include large and mid-size corporations, SME’s, start-ups, banks, funds and other financial institutions and advisory companies. We work for Japanese and European companies and sometimes for governmental organizations.
When advising our clients with their business development, we have access to a wide range of instruments, including M&A, joint ventures, technology transfers, supply agreements, fundraising, fund participation and greenfield operations. Each of these tools requires a different approach. Each tool has its pros and cons.
We have worked extensively with all of these tools and we cooperate with a wide range of specialists, such as legal experts, tax advisors, management consultants and finance specialists, thus unburdening our clients.
Global Bridges can support its Dutch/European clients with their entry into the Japanese market by establishing a corporate entity in Japan, often a K.K., or “Kabushiki Kaisha”.
We can help by recruiting local management and by raising funds.
The reverse applies as well. We can establish a Dutch B.V. for our Japanese clients and take care of all the steps along the way, including domiciliation and pay-roll services.
Is Global Bridges a “one-stop-shop”? No. But what we are good at is coordinating the activities necessary to implement the chosen strategy. Result: time saving and cost-efficiency.
There is a particular Dutch word: “Ontzorgen” which means as much as “unburdening” — or rather “taking care of everything”.
That is what we do.
What We’ve Done
No assignment is the same and hence, no solution is similar
Over the years Global Bridges has advised clients in the most diverse sectors. We love to sit down with you, hear your needs and wishes and discuss the best possible approach. Over a period of almost 25 years, we have supported our clients in many ways.
Please have a look at some of those who have placed their trust in us.
Who We Are
The core team consists of Radboud Molijn, Tjeerd de Vries, Waka Otsu and Diederik Eggenkamp. Each of us has their own skill set — their own strengths. Around this team we have gathered several associates who are experts in their own field.
You might find our CV’s rather unusual. Great! Because we know that the best solution for your company might just be out-of-the-ordinary as well.
Bridging Ideas
Trying to bridge cultures is what we do, so why not extend this beyond business?
Before you rush down over to our contact section, we invite you to take some (perhaps much needed) distance from your daily business and take a moment to reflect a little.
Every now and again, we publish articles, reflections, links to other websites and even poems, like this Tanka, by Fumi Saito.
man and horse not crossing the view the bridge is purely and simply making a connection