SoftBank on its $4 billion acquisition of DigitalBridge Group, Inc., a leading global alternative asset manager dedicated to investing in digital infrastructure.

SoftBank on its proposed acquisition of Swiss-headquartered ABB’s robotics division at an enterprise value of $5.375 billion. 

SoftBank in connection with its $6.5 billion acquisition of Ampere Computing, an American fabless semiconductor company developing processors for large-scale compute environments.

SoftBank, in connection with multiple investments in OpenAI, America’s premier artificial intelligence (AI) company and developer of the transformational large language models that are driving the AI revolution, including its proposed up to $40 billion investment in OpenAI.

SoftBank on The Stargate Project, including the formation of a new joint venture between SoftBank and OpenAI as lead partners, to invest billions of dollars in new AI infrastructure in the United States.

SoftBank in connection with its investment in Tempus AI and the establishment of a Japan joint venture, SB TEMPUS Corp. with Tempus AI, Inc., to expand Tempus’s leading AI solutions for medical applications to Japan and Southeast Asia.

Arm Holdings plc in its $5.2 billion initial public offering and listing on Nasdaq, the largest global IPO of 2023.

SoftBank in its $280 million Series E investment in Mapbox, an AI-powered location services platform fueling navigation technology used by Toyota, General Motors and BMW.

The board of Toshiba Corporation in its $15 billion take-private, the largest take-private transaction in Japanese history.

SoftBank in its sale of 90.01% stake in Fortress, a global investment manager with over $45 billion in assets under management, to Mubadala.

SoftBank in its $375 million acquisition of Berkshire Grey, Inc. (Nasdaq: BGRY), a robotic automation company, as well as interim financing through the completion of the merger.

SoftBank, Sprint’s controlling shareholder, on the landmark merger of Sprint and T-Mobile US, Inc., with a total implied enterprise value for Sprint of $59 billion and an aggregate implied enterprise value for the combined company of $146 billion.

SoftBank in its £24.3 billion ($31.4 billion) acquisition of Arm Holdings, the largest-ever cross-border acquisition by a Japanese company (and the largest-ever cash acquisition of a UK company).

SoftBank in its $21.6 billion acquisition of a 78% interest in U.S. wireless operator Sprint. The transaction was the largest U.S. M&A transaction of 2012 and, when announced, the largest cross-border acquisition by a Japanese company (now second to SoftBank’s acquisition of Arm Holdings in 2016).

Toshiba Corporation in the $18 billion sale of its wholly owned subsidiary Toshiba Memory Corporation to a consortium led by Bain Capital, the largest private equity deal ever undertaken in Asia.

SoftBank in its $7.7 billion primary and secondary investments as part of a $9.3 billion sale of stock by Uber. This is the largest-ever private secondary transaction in the technology space.

Hitachi in the $4.8 billion sale of its hard disk drive subsidiary, Hitachi Global Storage Technologies (HGST), to Western Digital. At the time of sale, HGST had over 40,000 employees worldwide and was one of the world’s leading HDD manufacturers.

Hitachi and Hitachi Appliances on their formation of a global air conditioning joint venture with Johnson Controls, integrating the companies’ market-leading HVAC businesses. Johnson Controls obtained a 60 percent ownership stake in Hitachi Appliances’ more than $2.6 billion global air conditioning business.

TDK in the formation of its $3 billion joint venture with Qualcomm to provide industry-leading radio frequency front-end (RFFE) modules and RF filters for mobile devices, drones, robotics, and automotive applications.