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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; Monex and Coincheck in connection with Coincheck’s “de-SPAC” business combination; Johnson Controls in its $8.1 billion sale of certain HVAC businesses; True Wind in its successful tender offer for 19% of SUNCORPORATION; Blackstone in its $6.3 billion acquisition of Crown Resorts; and Softbank in the $30 billion business integration of Z Holdings Corporation and LINE Corporation.
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B.A., Brigham Young University (2008); A.M., Harvard University (2013); J.D., Harvard Law School (2012)