Mr. Schrepfer is an associate in the Corporate Finance Practice Group of the Tokyo office. His practice focuses on mergers and acquisitions, capital markets transactions, and general corporate counseling for publicly and privately held companies. Prior to joining the Tokyo office in 2004, Mr. Schrepfer practiced with the Corporate Finance Practice Group of Morrison & Foerster’s San Francisco office.

Mr. Schrepfer’s mergers and acquisitions transactions include the representation of:

• Japan Airlines International Co., Ltd. in the sale of its indirect wholly owned subsidiary Pacific Fuel Trading Corporation to Vitol, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of the Vitol Group;
• Sokkia Co., Ltd. in connection with its proposed acquisition by Topcon Corporation for approximately US$198 million;
• Shidax Corporation, in its acquisition of the Patina Group, which operates approximately 50 restaurants across the US, including Patina, The Sea Grill, Café Pinot, and Nick & Stef’s;
• Fujikura Ltd. in its acquisition of a 60% interest in Auxiliar de Componentes Eléctricos, a Spain based automotive parts manufacturer with facilities in Romania and Mexico;
• Nagano Keiki, Asia’s leading manufacturer of precision pressure and temperature gauges, in its US$55 million acquisition of Ashcroft, a leading US-based precision instruments manufacturer;
• Thomson S.A. in its cross-border acquisition of Canopus Co., Ltd., a Japanese publicly traded company, through a private acquisition of one-third of the company's shares from its founder and his immediate family for cash and stock, and a simultaneous cash public tender offer for the remaining shares;
• Fujikura Ltd. in connection with its divestiture of a 49% equity interest in Alcoa Fujikura ltd. (“AFL”), a joint venture with Alcoa, Inc., and its simultaneous acquisition of AFL’s Telecommunication Division and a portion of AFL’s automotive division;
• A major construction firm in the ownership restructuring of a first-class hotel located in San Francisco;
• Thomson Inc. in its acquisition by merger of Gyration, Inc.;
• MarketWatch.com, Inc. in its approximately US$100 million acquisition by merger of Pinnacor Inc.;
• Hitachi, Ltd. of Japan in a US$2.05 billion deal to combine Hitachi’s global hard disk drive operations with those of IBM (focusing on both antitrust issues and the complex series of global transactions necessary to consummate this combination); and
• Shidax Corporation of Japan in its US$155.8 million sale of Bon Appetit to Compass Group PLC of England.

Mr. Schrepfer’s capital markets transactions include the representation of:

• Nikko Citigroup Limited, UBS Securities Japan Ltd. and Nomura Securities Co., Ltd. in connection with their underwriting of a JPY 36.5 billion global offering and initial public offering in Japan by Industrial & Infrastructure Fund Investment Corporation, a Japanese REIT;
• UBS Securities Japan Ltd and Nomura Securities Co., Ltd. in connection with their underwriting of a JPY 35.7 billion follow-on global offering by Kenedix Realty Investment Corporation, a Japanese REIT;
• Nikko Citigroup Limited and UBS Securities Japan Ltd in connection with their underwriting of a JPY 66.5 billion follow-on global offering by Japan Retail fund, a Japanese REIT;
• UBS Securities Japan Ltd and Nomura Securities Co., Ltd. in connection with their underwriting of a JPY 43.7 billion follow-on global offering by Kenedix Realty Investment Corporation, a Japanese REIT;
• Nikko Citigroup Limited and UBS Securities Japan Ltd in connection with their underwriting of a JPY 44.7 billion follow-on global offering by Japan Retail fund, a Japanese REIT; and
• Dynavax Technologies Corporation in its US$45 million initial public offering of common stock.

Mr. Schrepfer received a B.A. degree in International Studies from Northern Kentucky University in 1990 and was awarded a one-year Monbusho (Japanese Ministry of Education) Scholarship to study the Japanese language at Nagoya University in 1989. In 2001, he received a J.D. degree and certificate in law and technology from the University of California, Berkeley, Boalt Hall School of Law, where he was the Electronic Resources Editor of the California Law Review.

Prior to attending law school, Mr. Schrepfer spent three years working as an analyst at the Tokyo headquarters of a major Japanese manufacturing firm and four years at the Tokyo office of a large French bank working as a financial derivatives broker/analyst serving mostly Japanese institutional clients. Mr. Schrepfer speaks, reads and writes Japanese fluently.