Total Access Japan Event Series - The Global Market for Startups: Exit Trends in the U.S., Europe, and Japan
Seminar | November.20.2017 | 6:00pm - 7:30pm (Tokyo Standard Time)
Orrick Tokyo Office オリック東京オフィス日本語： グローバル市場の観点からのスタートアップ：Exitのトレンド、米国、ヨーロッパ、そして日本
Orrick's Total Access Japan Event Series provides entrepreneurs business, tactical, and legal education through complimentary panels and seminars and networking events.
The next event will take place on Tuesday, November 21 from 6:00 pm to 7:30 pm.
15,500 startup exits and 1.3 trillion USD in total value – join Orrick Tokyo and Dream Incubator to learn about worldwide exit trends over the last 7 years and the typical profiles of not just the startup that makes it to exit but also the regional ecosystems in which they are being acquired. Orrick attorneys will begin with an overview of global trends, focusing on the U.S. and Europe. Katsunari Matsui from Dream Incubator will follow with a discussion on exit trends in Japan. Attendees will be welcomed and encouraged to offer their observations and perspectives after the presentations.
Agenda
- Welcome
- Global Overview of Exit Trends
- Trends in US and Europe
- Trends in Japan
- Open discussion
Katsunari Matsui, Manager, Corporate Advisory Group, Dream Incubator
He is primarily involved in cross-border M&A advisory business at DI.
Most of the closed deals are cross-border as buy-side/investor-side advisor to large Japanese companies. The industries covered include Industrial Goods, Healthcare, ICT, Consumer Brands, etc.
Prior to joining DI, he worked as Investment Manager for SBI Investment (formerly Softbank Investment), one of the largest venture capital firms in Japan.
Date & Time: November 21 (Tuesday) 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm
Location: Orrick Tokyo Offices (Map)
Speaker:
Katsunari Matsui, Manager, Dream Incubator
Sven Greulich, Partner, Dusseldorf Office
Ben Spitz, Managing Associate, Tokyo Office
Language: English and Japanese (no simultaneous interpretation)
Registration: RSVP by Monday November 20
Fee: Free of charge
For questions, please contact Aya Mori.
Practice:
- Technology & Innovation Sector
- Mergers & Acquisitions
- Technology Companies Group
Dr. Sven Greulich, LL.M. (Cantuar), EMBA Partner
Düsseldorf
His clients include technology companies of all stages as well as venture capital and corporate venture capital investors. Together with an international and interdisciplinary team, he also supports scaleups and multinationals in their expansion projects, with a particular focus on cross-border transactions between Germany and the USA.
Sven’s goal is to build bridges for his clients between Germany, Silicon Valley, and other international technology hubs, helping them achieve successful growth in the global market. His legal and business background, entrepreneurial spirit, and experience from more than 400 financing rounds and M&A projects across various industries enable him to fully understand his clients’ strategic and commercial objectives and to develop creative solutions to achieve them.
Sven volunteers with entrepreneur groups at the WHU Otto Beisheim School of Management, the RWTH Aachen, the Technical University of Munich and the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology; he regularly lectures at the WHU and the RWTH incubation and innovation centers. In 2020, he launched the Founder Legal Boot Camp, a unique free-of-charge seminar program that educates aspiring founding teams from technical and business universities about all relevant legal pitfalls in the areas of company formation, financing, and the initial growth phase. Organized in collaboration with Germany’s leading startup universities, the Founder Legal Boot Camp now takes place three times a year in Düsseldorf, Munich, and alternately in Karlsruhe/Stuttgart.
Sven's work has been repeatedly awarded, inter alia
- Chambers ranks him as one of the top 3 venture capital lawyers in Germany (2025);
- the leading German market publication JUVE - since 2019 - ranks Sven as one of Germanyʹs top 15 attorneys for venture capital, the highest recognition for this category awarded by JUVE (2025/2026);
- Legal500 Deutschland includes Sven as “frequently recommended” for M&A (mid-sized deals) as well as private equity (mid-sized deals) and ranks him as a “leading partner” for venture capital (2025); and
- Handelsblatt/Best Lawyers list Sven as a Best Lawyer in the category Venture Capital (2025), and Sven also received their award "Venture Capital Lawyer of the Year – Western Germany" (2025); and
- in the 2017 edition of its Innovative Lawyers Report Europe, the Financial Times named Svenʹs work to connect start-ups with Germanyʹs Mittelstand (mid-sized companies) a standout “for making bridges between Silicon Valley and Germany”.