JAPAN Law and Practice Contributed by: Yohsuke Higashi, Nobuhiko Suzuki and Hiroko Kasama, Mori Hamada & Matsumoto
Mori Hamada & Matsumoto has a corporate/M&A team that consists of approximately 300 attorneys. The firm has offices in Tokyo, Osaka, Nagoya, Fukuo - ka, Takamatsu, Yokohama, Sapporo and Kochi, and international branch offices in New York, Northern California, Singapore, Shanghai, Beijing, Bangkok (Chandler Mori Hamada), Yangon (Myanmar Legal Mori Hamada Limited), Ho Chi Minh City, Hanoi, Ja - karta and Manila. The firm’s M&A practice handles mergers, acquisitions, restructurings and corporate alliances in a wide variety of industries and sectors, including domestic and cross-border transactions
(inbound and outbound); listed company, private equity and venture capital transactions; friendly and unsolicited transactions; going-private transactions; MBOs; acquisition finance; and takeover strategies. The firm has been particularly active on cross-border transactions between Japan and the USA, the EU, and South and South-East Asian countries. The firm’s M&A team liaises with other key practice areas for M&A transactions involving distressed or insolvent companies, as well as M&A-related litigation and ar - bitration.
Authors
Yohsuke Higashi is a partner at Mori Hamada & Matsumoto. His practice is focused on M&A, private equity and venture capital transactions, with rare expertise in advising international clients on the Japanese foreign
Nobuhiko Suzuki is a partner at Mori Hamada & Matsumoto based in its New York office. His practice is particularly focused on US-Japan and other Japan-related cross-border M&A, joint ventures and venture
investment regulations. He has extensive experience in representing international private equity, venture capital and strategic buyers and sellers in transactions involving Japanese targets. He received his LLB and JD from the University of Tokyo, and his LLM from the University of Chicago. He is admitted to the Japanese and New York Bars.
finance transactions. He has advised Japanese and international private equity and venture capital firms as well as strategic investors from various sectors. He also regularly advises international clients on general corporate matters involving their Japanese subsidiaries. He was admitted to the Japanese Bar in 2012 and to the New York Bar in 2018. He received his LLM in 2017 from Stanford Law School and his JD in 2011 from Keio Law School.
Hiroko Kasama is counsel at Mori Hamada & Matsumoto. Her practice areas include domestic and international M&A, corporate governance and corporate litigation. She has advised a number of private
equity buyers and sellers on their acquisitions and sales of Japanese targets. She also provides regular advice to private equity sponsors on their fund formation. She was admitted to the Japanese Bar in 2013 and to the New York Bar in 2021. She received her LLM in 2020 from New York University School of Law and her JD in 2012 from the University of Tokyo, School of Law.
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