The team showed exceptional skill in handling complex, cross-border transactions. The deal they helped us with involved multiple international jurisdictions and time zones, and yet the team was able to provide seamless and uninterrupted advice with a strong focus on client service. They also showed great teamwork, professionalism and creativity.
— Chambers Global 2020
We represent Fortune 500 companies, private equity firms, investment banks, and privately-held companies in their most high-profile and complex mergers and acquisitions.
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– Chambers Global & Asia Pacific, Legal 500 Asia Pacific, IFLR1000
Our depth of transactional experience includes:
Our M&A experience reflects our focus on cross-border transactions. We are truly a global firm ‒ from our client base to the MoFo team members on each deal. Many of our lawyers are multilingual and have practiced in several global jurisdictions. Where needed, we can seamlessly staff M&A projects across Asia, Europe and the Americas.
This unparalleled global platform includes the most active practice of any international firm in Japan, with more than 50 attorneys principally engaged in cross-border M&A transactions. The preeminent team has acted as lead counsel on some of the most significant Japan-related transactions in history, both inbound and outbound, and is a go-to advisor for Japan’s leading technology and telecommunications companies, including SoftBank, Hitachi, Fujitsu, and Toshiba.
Our M&A lawyers also work as an integrated team with advisors in key areas such as intellectual property, antitrust, capital markets, litigation, tax, labor and benefits, finance and bankruptcy, real estate, ESG/sustainability, environmental, and securities. Our internal approach is highly collaborative.
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Served as lead counsel to Sprint Corp. and SoftBank Group Corp., the controlling shareholder of Sprint, in the landmark merger of Sprint and T-Mobile US, Inc. The deal was valued at $59 billion, with the aggregate for the combined company in the all-stock transaction valued at approximately $146 billion, making it one of the largest telecommunications deals in history.
Advising SoftBank Group Corp. and SoftBank Vision Fund (together, “SoftBank”) in the $40 billion sale of UK-headquartered multinational semiconductor and software design company Arm Limited to U.S. chip company NVIDIA (NASDAQ: NVDA).
Represented Toshiba Corporation on the US$18 billion sale of its Toshiba Memory Corporation business to a consortium led by Bain Capital Private Equity LP.
Represented Alibaba in relation to Ant Financial’s most recent $14 billion Series C fundraising, valuing Ant Financial at approximately US$150 billion. It was the largest single fund raise by any company in the world.
Represented GLP Pte. Ltd. in its US$11.64 billion privatization, the largest-ever private equity buyout of an Asian company by enterprise value.
Represented SoftBank in numerous significant investments, including in its US$9.6 billion investment in Xiaoju Kuaizhi Inc. (DiDi); its US$7.7 billion primary and secondary investment as part of a US$9.3 billion sale of stock by Uber; and the US$6 billion investment into WeWork Companies Inc. (rebranded as The We Company).
Represented Renesas Electronics Corporation in its US$6.7 billion acquisition of NASDAQ-listed Integrated Device Technology (IDT), a market-leading analog mixed-signal company, to create market-leading embedded solution capabilities.
Represented EdR, one of the nation’s largest developers, owners, and managers of high-quality collegiate housing communities, in its US$4.6 billion all-cash sale to a newly formed perpetual life vehicle led by an affiliate of Greystar Real Estate Partners.
Represented Yahoo Japan Corporation in its $3.7 billion tender offer for a majority interest in ZOZO, Inc., a Japanese E-commerce company that operates Internet shopping websites including ZOZOTOWN, a leading online fashion retailer in Japan.
Advised Pivotal Investment Corporation II (NYSE: PIC), a publicly traded special purpose acquisition company, in its merger with XL Fleet (“XL”), a leader in vehicle electrification solutions for commercial and municipal fleets.
Represented FUJIFILM Holdings Corporation and Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd. (FX), a 75%‑25% joint venture between Fujifilm and Xerox Corporation, in connection with Fujifilm’s acquisition of Xerox’s 25% stake in FX for an aggregate purchase price of $2.3 billion.
Represented VMware, Inc. on its $2.3 billion acquisition of cybersecurity company Carbon Black, marking VMware’s first acquisition of another public company.
Represented Taisho Pharmaceutical in the purchase of French-based pharmaceutical manufacturer UPSA from Bristol-Myers Squibb for $1.6 billion, including the transfer and licensing of trademarks, marketing authorizations, and other intellectual property.
Represented Alibaba in its acquisition of a 33% equity interest in Ant Financial, China’s leading financial services company. It was the largest China-related technology transaction of 2018.
Represented Trusted Doctors (Xingren) in its strategic merger agreement with Tencent Doctorwork. The newly formed venture, which is named Tencent Trusted Doctors, will offer an ecosystem of both online and offline services devoted to leveraging Internet technology to provide high-quality and accessible healthcare service to customers all over the country.
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