EXPERIENCE

Yohei’s experience includes advising:

M&A

• British Columbia Investment Management Corporation (BCI), as part of a global leading infrastructure investors consortium led by Macquarie Asset Management, on the raise of ¥150 billion to ¥300 billion (US$1-2 billion) in funds for the sale and leaseback of a portion of Rakuten Mobile’s mobile network assets
• Nippon Life Insurance Company on its acquisition of a 21.6% equity interest in Corebridge, a retirement solutions and insurance products company, for approximately US$3.84 billion
• Syntiant Corp. on its acquisition of the consumer MEMS Microphones business of Knowles Corporation, a provider of high-performance capacitors, radio frequency (RF) filtering products, advanced micro-acoustic microphones, and balanced armature speakers
• Shoei Chemical, a Japan-based advanced materials manufacturer, on the acquisition of US-based Nanosys’ quantum dot (QD) business*
• The News Lens Co., a leading Asian digital media company, on its:
  • Merger with Japan-based Mediagene*
  • Proposed de-SPAC with Blue Ocean Acquisition Corporation and listing on NASDAQ*
• onsemi on the sale of its Niigata semiconductor fabrication facility to JS Foundry K.K.*
• NTT in the sale of White Hat Security, a provider of application security SaaS, to Synopsys*
• SoftBank Group and SoftBank Vision Fund on UK-headquartered multinational semiconductor and software design company Arm Limited’s proposed US$65 billion sale to NVIDIA*
• Oji Paper on the sale of Oji Interpack, a global manufacturer of comprehensive packaging solutions, to Intertech Holdings*
• SoftBank on the sale of Boston Dynamics, an American engineering and robotics design company, to Hyundai*
• Mitsubishi Heavy Industries on the US$550 million carve-out acquisition of Bombardier's regional jet program*
• Asahi Kasei Corporation on the approximately US$1 billion acquisition of Sage Automotive Interiors, a global supplier of technical textiles for the automotive industry, from Clearlake Capital Group*
• Tayca Corporation, a TSE-listed industrial chemical products producer, on the acquisition of TRS Technologies, a privately held US piezoelectric and dielectric materials technology producer*
• Toshiba Corporation on the US$18 billion sale of wholly owned subsidiary Toshiba Memory Corporation to a consortium led by Bain Capital*

Venture Capital

• Tokio Marine & Nichido Fire Insurance on its various outbound strategic investments*
• LeapFrog Investments on its preferred stock investment in the Series B financing round of bolttech, an international insurtech company*
• JERA as lead investor on its preferred stock investment in the Series C financing round of Intertrust, a Silicon Valley-based trusted distributed computing pioneer*

*Matter handled prior to joining Latham