JAPAN Law and Practice Contributed by: Hajime Tanahashi, Takayuki Kihira, Kenichi Sekiguchi and Akira Matsushita, Mori Hamada
Mori Hamada has a corporate M&A team that consists of approximately 300 attorneys. The firm has offices in Tokyo, Osaka, Nagoya, Fukuoka, Takamatsu, Yokohama, Sapporo and Kochi, and international branch offices in New York, Northern California, Singapore, Shanghai, Beijing, Bangkok (Chandler Mori Hamada), Yan - gon (Myanmar Legal Mori Hamada Limited), Ho Chi Minh City, Hanoi, Jakarta and Manila. The firm’s M&A practice handles mergers, acquisi - tions, restructurings and corporate alliances in a wide variety of industries and sectors, in - cluding domestic and cross-border transac -
tions (inbound and outbound); listed company, private equity and venture capital transactions; friendly and unsolicited transactions; going-pri - vate transactions; MBOs; acquisition finance; and takeover strategies. The firm has been particularly active in cross-border transactions between Japan and the US, the EU, 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 insol - vent companies, as well as M&A-related litiga - tion and arbitration. Takayuki Kihira is a partner at Mori Hamada & Matsumoto with experience in M&A, corporate and securities law. In particular, he has extensive experience in cross-border M&A transactions and frequently represents international clients. Kihira was admitted to the Bar in Japan in 2001 and in New York in 2007. He has authored several publications on M&A in Japan. He also teaches a course on global M&A practice at Cornell Law School as an adjunct professor of law. practises in M&A and general corporate matters, including corporate litigation regarding M&A transactions. He focuses particularly on transactions involving conflicts of interest such as MBOs. Sekiguchi was admitted to the Bar in Japan in 2005 and in New York in 2011. He has contributed to numerous publications concerning M&A in Japan. Kenichi Sekiguchi is a partner at Mori Hamada & Matsumoto who
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Hajime Tanahashi is a partner at Mori Hamada & Matsumoto who has great expertise in corporate law, M&A, private equity, venture finance and corporate governance. Tanahashi has also
represented various domestic and international private equity funds. He is the author of several publications concerning private equity, domestic and cross-border M&A and tender offer bids in Japan. Tanahashi has been a lecturer at Waseda University School since 2005 and is a director and member of the Industrial Innovation Committee at the Innovation Network Corporation of Japan (currently INCJ Limited). He was admitted to the Bar in Japan in 1992 and in New York in 1997.
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