{"id":819,"date":"2019-06-29T00:26:52","date_gmt":"2019-06-28T15:26:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kitahama.or.jp\/english\/?post_type=professional&#038;p=819"},"modified":"2026-03-18T13:18:56","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T04:18:56","slug":"takuya-tome","status":"publish","type":"professional","link":"https:\/\/www.kitahama.or.jp\/english\/professionals\/takuya-tome\/","title":{"rendered":"Takuya Tome"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>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\u2019s 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\u2019s Corporate Governance Code. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Work Highlights<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kitahama.or.jp\/english\/news\/6141\/\">The Privatization of\u00a0SHIBAURA ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.\u00a0by\u00a0YAGEO Corporation<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kitahama.or.jp\/english\/news\/6113\/\">Absorption-type Merger of\u00a0DAITEC Holding Co., Ltd. by\u00a0Fukui Computer Holdings, Inc.<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kitahama.or.jp\/english\/news\/6110\/\">The Privatization of\u00a0ITOCHU-SHOKUHIN Co.,\u00a0Ltd.\u00a0by\u00a0ITOCHU Corporation<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kitahama.or.jp\/english\/news\/6143\/\">The Privatization of\u00a0TRUST CO.,\u00a0LTD.\u00a0by\u00a0VT HOLDINGS CO., LTD.<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kitahama.or.jp\/english\/news\/6145\/\">The Privatization of\u00a0NAKAYO, INC.\u00a0by\u00a0Ai Holdings Corporation<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kitahama.or.jp\/english\/news\/5480\/\">The Privatization of C.I. TAKIRON Corporation by ITOCHU Corporation<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kitahama.or.jp\/english\/news\/6119\/\">The Privatization of\u00a0a\u00a0Retail\u00a0Company Listed on\u00a0the\u00a0Standard Market of the Tokyo Stock Exchange<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kitahama.or.jp\/english\/news\/6139\/\">The Privatization of\u00a0a Real Estate Company Listed on the Standard Market of the Tokyo Stock Exchange\u00a0by\u00a0a\u00a0Construction\u00a0Company Listed on the\u00a0Prime\u00a0Market of the Tokyo Stock Exchange<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kitahama.or.jp\/english\/news\/4883\/\">The Privatization of Otsuka Kagu, Ltd. by YAMADA HOLDINGS CO., LTD. through a Share Exchange<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kitahama.or.jp\/english\/news\/5486\/\">M&amp;A Case between AI, Inc. and FueTrek Inc.<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kitahama.or.jp\/english\/news\/5483\/\">Ci Medical Co., Ltd.\u2019s Acquisition\u00a0of the\u00a0Ownership of Shirohato Co., Ltd.<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>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)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kitahama.or.jp\/english\/news\/4875\/\">The Privatization of a Company Listed on the First Section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kitahama.or.jp\/english\/news\/4856\/\">The Privatization of NICHII HOLDINGS CO., LTD. through an MBO<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>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<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kitahama.or.jp\/english\/news\/6121\/\">The Privatization of\u00a0Freund Corporation\u00a0through an MBO<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kitahama.or.jp\/english\/news\/4889\/\">The Privatization of SAKAI OVEX CO., LTD. through an MBO<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kitahama.or.jp\/english\/news\/4887\/\">MARUKA Corporation: Joint Share Transfer with Furusato Industries<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kitahama.or.jp\/english\/news\/4879\/\">NIPPON ENGINEERING CONSULTANTS CO., LTD.: The Joint Share Transfer with DIA CONSULTANTS CO., Ltd.<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kitahama.or.jp\/english\/news\/4911\/\">Responding to Multiple Cases of Unsolicited Takeover Bids (including undisclosed cases)<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kitahama.or.jp\/english\/news\/4923\/\">Investigation by the Third-party Committee into IR Japan Holdings, Ltd.<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Education \uff06 Professional Career<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table><tbody><tr><td>Jan 2021  &#8211;  Present <\/td><td>Kitahama Partners, Partner<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Oct 2018  &#8211;  Sep 2019<\/td><td>Worked at a private (securities) company<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>May 2018<\/td><td>Northwestern University School of Law (LL.M.)<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Apr 2015  &#8211;  Oct 2016<\/td><td>Seconded to the Japan Exchange Regulation (Assigned to the Listed Company Compliance Department)<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Feb 2014  &#8211;  Apr 2014<\/td><td>Intern at Masuda, Funai, Eifert &amp; Mitchell, Ltd. (Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A.)<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Jan 2012<\/td><td>Joined Kitahama Partners <\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Dec 2011<\/td><td>Graduated from the Legal Training and Research Institute of the Supreme Court of Japan; Admitted to practice in Japan<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Mar 2010<\/td><td>Keio University Law School (J.D.)<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Mar 2008<\/td><td>Keio University (LL.B.)<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":34,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-819","professional","type-professional","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Takuya Tome -partner - Kitahama Partners<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Takuya Tome is a Partner specializing in the fields of mergers and acquisitions and corporate matters. 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