Takuya Tome is a Partner specializing in the fields of mergers and acquisitions and corporate matters. Mr. Tome is versed in corporate law as well as Japan’s Financial Instruments and Exchange Act. He has substantial experience with respect to domestic mid-sized mergers and acquisitions, take-over bids (TOB) of listed companies, and cross-border mergers and acquisitions. Making use of his experience of having been seconded to a stock exchange as well as a prominent corporation, Mr. Tome primarily provides securities-related legal advice, including risk management for listed companies (including during the period of assessment of initial public offering), investigations into fraud by listed or unlisted entities (including assisting the establishment of and advising an internal committee or a third-party committee), advice in regard to statutory disclosure and timely disclosure (press releases), advice in relation to securities listing regulations and responses to various requests from stock exchanges, management buyouts (MBO), capital and business alliances, anti-takeover measures (introduction, maintenance and abolishment), and advice relating to Japan’s Corporate Governance Code.

Work Highlights

• The Privatization of SHIBAURA ELECTRONICS CO., LTD. by YAGEO Corporation
• Absorption-type Merger of DAITEC Holding Co., Ltd. by Fukui Computer Holdings, Inc.
• The Privatization of ITOCHU-SHOKUHIN Co., Ltd. by ITOCHU Corporation
• The Privatization of TRUST CO., LTD. by VT HOLDINGS CO., LTD.
• The Privatization of NAKAYO, INC. by Ai Holdings Corporation
• The Privatization of C.I. TAKIRON Corporation by ITOCHU Corporation
• The Privatization of a Retail Company Listed on the Standard Market of the Tokyo Stock Exchange
• The Privatization of a Real Estate Company Listed on the Standard Market of the Tokyo Stock Exchange by a Construction Company Listed on the Prime Market of the Tokyo Stock Exchange
• The Privatization of Otsuka Kagu, Ltd. by YAMADA HOLDINGS CO., LTD. through a Share Exchange
• M&A Case between AI, Inc. and FueTrek Inc.
• Ci Medical Co., Ltd.’s Acquisition of the Ownership of Shirohato Co., Ltd.
• The Acquisition of the Shares of a Competitor by a Retail Company Listed on the Prime Market of the Tokyo Stock Exchange (approximate acquisition price of JPY 10 billion)
• The Privatization of a Company Listed on the First Section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange

• The Privatization of NICHII HOLDINGS CO., LTD. through an MBO
• The Privatization of a Company Listed on the First Section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange (aggregate market value of up to JPY 50 billion) through an MBO
• The Privatization of Freund Corporation through an MBO
• The Privatization of SAKAI OVEX CO., LTD. through an MBO

• MARUKA Corporation: Joint Share Transfer with Furusato Industries
• NIPPON ENGINEERING CONSULTANTS CO., LTD.: The Joint Share Transfer with DIA CONSULTANTS CO., Ltd.
• Responding to Multiple Cases of Unsolicited Takeover Bids (including undisclosed cases)
• Investigation by the Third-party Committee into IR Japan Holdings, Ltd.

Education ＆ Professional Career

Jan 2021 – Present	Kitahama Partners, Partner
Oct 2018 – Sep 2019	Worked at a private (securities) company
May 2018	Northwestern University School of Law (LL.M.)
Apr 2015 – Oct 2016	Seconded to the Japan Exchange Regulation (Assigned to the Listed Company Compliance Department)
Feb 2014 – Apr 2014	Intern at Masuda, Funai, Eifert & Mitchell, Ltd. (Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A.)
Jan 2012	Joined Kitahama Partners
Dec 2011	Graduated from the Legal Training and Research Institute of the Supreme Court of Japan; Admitted to practice in Japan
Mar 2010	Keio University Law School (J.D.)
Mar 2008	Keio University (LL.B.)