Mergers & Acquisitions
M&A is an essential strategy for business expansion, investment in growth fields, and the development of new business at listed companies, major corporations, and small- and medium-sized enterprises. At Kitahama Partners, we provide a wide range of support to corporations of all sizes, and we give strategic and practical advice, informed by a wealth of experience, for M&A in all fields and on all scales of business, to acquiring and acquired firms in Japan and abroad.
In addition, one of our key organizational features is that we do not adopt a model of rigid departmentalization, and instead assemble project teams by gathering attorneys with a high level of competence in the legal fields relevant to each case. We create systems that provide continuous and full support for all issues that arise in connection with the cases we handle, from the initial stages until the case concludes.
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M&A/Corporate Restructuring
In M&A, various methods other than share transfers, mergers, or other forms of organizational restructuring are worthy of consideration, including tender offers (TOB), squeeze outs, and schemes involving private placement...
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Business Partnerships
Recent years have seen a growing range of opportunities to expand business and pursue technical developments by drawing on technologies that are open source or otherwise developed by outside enterprises...
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Private Equity
Our firm provides advice on the fund compositions produced by private equity funds and fund restrictions under related laws and regulations and, at the stage of investment execution using funds,...
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Venture Capital
Recent years have seen an increase not only in venture capital (VC) funds, but in opportunities for large corporations to assemble their own funds and invest in or contribute to...
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Cross-Border M&A
At Kitahama, in conjunction with the recent rise in acquisitions of overseas corporations by Japanese corporations, we handle many outbound cases for European, American and Asian countries. We have also...
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Joint Ventures
Recent years have seen, in conjunction with the increasingly active overseas expansion of Japanese corporations, a growth in opportunities for the proactive utilization of joint ventures to ensure compliance with...
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Hostile Takeovers/Activist Actions
Today’s listed companies are experiencing a growing need for high-capital-efficiency management, and when market valuation is inadequate in regard to capital efficiency, companies are vulnerable to pressure from activists and...
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Business Succession
Managers today face a growing need for business succession as a result of the shortage of domestic corporate successors resulting from Japan’s declining birthrate and aging population. At Kitahama, even...
Professionals
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Terumichi Saeki
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Kenji Yamamoto
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Hiroko Takiguchi
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Toru Watanabe
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Masafumi Kodama
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Wataru Nakamori
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Kenko Shikichi
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Yujiro Arakawa
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Hiroaki Yoshida
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Yoshihiro Hara
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Miyako Ikuta
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Toshiaki Nakanishi
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Takehiro Oishi
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Daisuke Sakai
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Tatsuhito Shiotsu
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Shunsuke Yabuuchi
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Akihito Taniguchi
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Keiko Horino
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Koji Ebato
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Kiyotaka Tajima
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Toru Miki
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Daisuke Wakai
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Toshiaki Sano
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Takanori Nakajima
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Akinori Tani
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Yuto Yasuda
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Takuya Tome
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Shintaro Hino
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Yoshimasa Kakudo
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Shinya Ota
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Jun Kawanami
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Daiki Asanuma
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Yusuke Takaoka
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Hidemaro Matsushima
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Kosuke Ikeno
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Ryusaku Saito
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Tatsuo Ikeda
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Shoko Miura
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Shunsuke Fujita
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Yuki Kawata
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Kazuya Yamakawa
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Masashige Horiuchi
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Hiroshi Yokoyama
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Nobuoki Toshimitsu
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Yasuhiro Anan
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Minami Hosoi
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Masaki Yamaguchi
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Hayato Sasaki
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Takahiro Yagi
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Tomoyuki Noguchi
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Shinji Takakura
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Yukihiko Mori
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Daisuke Yamamoto
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Wei Chang
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Claude Kaneda