Latham & Watkins Gaikokuho Joint Enterprise‘s corporate M&A team is headed up by Hong Kong-based Ji Liu, who is also the chair for the firm’s Asia corporate department. Work carried out by the team includes cross-border acquisitions, venture capital financings, strategic alliances, and other inbound and outbound corporate transactions. Notable names within the team include Hiroki Kobayashi, Ivan Smallwood and Hiroaki Takagi. Noah Carr left the firm in November 2023.
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Key clients
- Nissan
- Kioxia Corporation
- Warburg Pincus
- Carlyle
- Block Inc
- SoftBank
- Z Holdings
- Servco
- Bain Consulting
- Otsuka Medical Devices