Tokyo Office — Mergers & Acquisitions, Joint Ventures and Strategic Alliances

Our Tokyo M&A lawyers provide legal services for all types of local and cross-border merger and acquisition transactions, including stock and asset purchases, tender offers, leveraged buyouts, going-private transactions, spin-offs, reorganizations, recapitalizations, primary and secondary acquisitions by investment funds, and purchases and sales of divisions and subsidiaries. We also structure and negotiate a wide variety of strategic alliances, joint ventures, licensing agreements, and sales, marketing and distribution arrangements.

Our Tokyo M&A team advises foreign companies investing and acquiring companies in Japan, Japanese companies in their acquisitions outside of Japan, and cross-border M&A transactions throughout the Asia-Pacific region. Examples of our M&A experience include advising the following:

• A leading French oil and petrochemical company in its acquisition of a specialized chemicals division of Sumitomo Chemical.
• An Italian fashion and accessory group in the ¥1 billion acquisition and reorganization of its joint venture in Japan.
• A global luxury brand in its acquisition of its Japanese joint venture partner, including financial restructuring of the operations in Japan.
• A Korean petrochemical company in the sale by its Singaporean affiliate of an equity interest in a Chinese petrochemical company to a Middle East investor.
• An investor group led by a Korean confectionery company in its acquisition of Haitai Confectionery & Foods Co., a leading confectionery company in Korea, from a group of global private equity funds.
• A global financial services company in its $1.2 billion acquisition of global agency broker Instinet Inc. from a global private equity firm.
• A U.S. subsidiary of a Japan-based global gas utility in the $150 million acquisition of nine independent power project assets from a global private equity energy fund.
• One of the world's leading media and advertising groups, based in France, in several acquisitions in Japan.
• A leading Japanese trading firm in connection with its sale of shares in the world's largest privately held agrochemical company to a private equity fund.
• A U.S. automotive component manufacturer in the disposal of its shareholding in a Japanese-listed company and termination of their joint venture and strategic alliance in Japan, China and Thailand.

Contact Us

For additional information regarding Orrick's
M&A Practice, please contact Mark Weeks
(weeks@orrick.com, +81 3 3224 2925) or Shintaro Kuroda (skuroda@orrick.com, +81 3 3224 2817).