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Provided by Jonathan Stradling

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Partner in the Firm’s M&A Practice, resident in Tokyo. Regularly represents private equity sponsors and public and private companies in Japan and throughout the Asia-Pacific region (including China, Korea, India, Singapore and Australia) and the United States. Practice spans a broad range of complex transactions, including mergers, acquisitions, dispositions, leveraged buyouts, joint ventures, carve-outs, recapitalizations, restructurings, de-SPACs, and asset management deals, as well as corporate governance matters, across a wide range industries, including infrastructure, real estate, technology, financial services, fintech, consumer, pharmaceuticals, industrials and energy. Recent representations include KKR in its $5.2 billion acquisition of Hitachi Transport System, Ltd. and its $2 billion acquisition of Mitsubishi Corp.-UBS Realty; Blackstone in its $6.3 billion acquisition of Crown Resorts Limited and its $6 billion acquisition of Home Partners of America; and Softbank in the $30 billion business integration of Z Holdings Corporation and LINE Corporation.

Career

Joined the Firm in 2012; became a Partner in 2023. Joined the Tokyo office from New York in 2019.

Professional Memberships

Dai-ichi Tokyo Bar Association; The Association of the Bar of the City of New York; American Bar Association

Personal

B.A., Brigham Young University (2008); A.M., Harvard University (2013); J.D., Harvard Law School (2012)

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