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Provided by Mori Hamada & Matsumoto
We have built our solid position as the Asian leading law firm in the capital markets area, and frequently act in mega cutting-edge deals of equity, debt, J-REITs, securitisation and derivatives. We also advise on disclosure, corporate governance, response to activist shareholders, investigations on accounting fraud and insider trading and securities litigations. We consistently receive the highest evaluation from the market players.
Our recent deals include the first case of S-1 type global IPO by Kioxia Holdings, global IPOs by Astroscale, SBI Sumishin Net Bank, Ltd. and Integral Corporation, concurrent global IPOs of Japan Post Holdings, Japan Post Bank and Japan Post Insurance and their follow on global offerings, periodic global offerings by Nippon Prologis REIT, the leading J-REIT focusing on logistics facilities, the first listing and public offering by a foreign company using the Japan Depository Receipt structure, a global IPO by SoftBank Corp., the first IPO which attracted corner stone investors through allocation designated by the issuer, a USD-denominated senior notes and EUR-denominated senior notes offering by NTT Finance, the security token offerings(STOs) including the Japan’s first FIEA compliant asset-backed STOs by Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Bank and Tosei Asset Advisors, a novel financing for Spiber through a “value securitization” and legal counsel for Japan Bank for International Cooperation on all of its derivatives transactions.