Mori Hamada & Matsumoto Tokyo Office
Client SatisfactionMori Hamada & Matsumoto Tokyo Office‘s team is 'highly professional' and has 'the best capabilities to advise clients on global capital market transactions'. The capital markets team, led by Katsumasa Suzuki and Taro Omoto, advises on complex IPOs, global equity offerings, and euro-convertible bond offerings. Suzuki specialises in global IPOs, while Omoto focuses on complex financial instruments, such as equity and subordinated debts. The structured finance and derivatives team, led by Masanori Sato and Akira Ehira, handles traditional securitisation, derivatives, and innovative deals, where Sato has extensive experience in structured finance, while Ehira specialises in derivatives. Other key members include Toshimitsu Nemoto, who advises on various financings, such as Global IPOs, and Katsuyuki Tainaka, an expert in equity and debt transactions.
Testimonials
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‘MHM is a highly professional firm with the best capability to advise clients on global capital markets transactions. Their credentials in working on most major transactions in Japan make them an ideal partner for capital markets transactions. The team is also very high quality, from partners down to the associates.’
‘We appreciate that MHM is capable of providing advice not only on traditional products in the equity capital market (such as IPOs and FOs) but also on cases with few precedents in Japan, such as rights offerings.'
'MHM excels in overall strength and has a deep knowledge of the practice area.'
‘The firm has a deep knowledge and experience in the field of real estate non-recourse, and is able to provide solutions to our problems more quickly than any other firm.'
Key clients
- Asahi Group Holdings, Ltd.
- JFE Holdings, Inc.
- TRYT Inc.
- Astroscale Holdings Inc.
- Kubota Corporation and
- Kubota Credit Corporation, U.S.A.
- Hitachi, Ltd.
- TOEI Animation Co., LTD.
- SBI Shinsei Bank, Limited
- Goldman Sachs International and Goldman Sachs Japan Co., Ltd.
- J.P. Morgan Securities Plc
- Merrill Lynch International and Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc.
- Morgan Stanley & Co. International Plc.
- Mitsubishi UFJ
- Morgan Stanley Securities Co., Ltd.
- Morgan Stanley MUFG Securities Co., Ltd.
- UBS AG, London Branch
- Daiwa Securities Co. Ltd.
- Mizuho Securities Co., Ltd.,
- Nomura Securities Co., Ltd.
- SMBC Nikko Capital Markets Limited
- SMBC Nikko Securities Inc.
- Japan Bankers Association
- MUFG Bank, Ltd.
- Mizuho Bank, Ltd.
- Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation
- Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Bank, Limited
- Mitsubishi UFJ Trust and Banking Corporation
- Japan Bank for International Cooperation
- Canadian Solar Infrastructure Fund, Inc.
- Enex Infrastructure Investment Corporation
- Takara Leben Infrastructure Fund
- Japan Post Holdings Co., Ltd.
- SoftBank Group Corp.
- Marubeni Corporation
- Nippon Life Insurance Company
- Recruit Holdings Co., Ltd.
- Toyota Industries Corporation
- Daiwa House REIT Investment Corporation
- Mori Hills REIT Investment Corporation
- PGIM Real Estate Finance, LLC
- Tosei Asset Advisors, Inc.
- SUMCO Corporation
- Nippon Paint Holdings Co., Ltd.
- Skylark Holdings Co., LTD.
- VisasQ Inc.
- SBI Securities Co., Ltd.
- Japan Post Bank Co., Ltd.
- SBI Sumishin Net Bank, Ltd.
- Socionext Inc.
- NTT Finance Corporation
- Nippon Prologis REIT, Inc.
- Daiwa House Logistics Trust
- Enex Infrastructure Investment Corporation
Work highlights
- Advised Asahi Group Holdings, Ltd. in a secondary shares offering in overseas markets.
- Advised JFE Holdings, Inc. in the concurrent offering of shares of common stock and convertible.
- Advised Sumitomu Mitsui Trust Bank as trustee and established a trust with loan receivables from Sony Bank as trust assets, with the beneficiary rights of the trust tokenised and sold by Sony Bank through a public offering.
Lawyers
Practice head
The lawyer(s) leading their teams.
Katsumasa Suzuki, Taro Omoto, Masanori Sato, Akira Ehira