People
Taro Nakashima
Biography
Taro specialises in cross-border M&A transactions, with significant experience advising Japanese clients on their outbound transactions as well as international clients investing in Japan.
He has experience across a variety of deal types and structures, including public and private M&A, competitive bids and transactions involving complex structures. He advises clients across a wide range of industries, with particular experience in the manufacturing, technology, financial services, consumer and life science sectors.
Ranked as a Next Generation (Bengoshi) for Corporate M&A in Japan by Legal 500, Taro is recognized for his commercial approach and international experience advising clients on transactions in both mature and emerging markets. He has also worked in the firm's offices in Singapore and Thailand, where he advised Japanese clients on various ASEAN transactions.
Practice areas
- Corporate and M&A
- Joint ventures
- Complex commercial transactions
- M and A JVs and corporate reorganizations
Selected experience
- Hitachi on its USD1.425 bn acquisition of JR Automation from Crestview Partners.
- Persol Holdings on its acquisition of ASX listed maintenance services company, Programmed, by way of scheme of arrangement.
- A global financial institution on its USD783 m acquisition of a 20% interest in Security Bank of the Philippines.
- Pernod Ricard on its bid for a stake in Japanese distillery.
- MAIF (an affiliate of Macquarie Infrastructure and Real Assets (MIRA)) on its sale of Japanese chemical storage tank operator Central Tank Terminal to KKR.
- Kirin Holdings on its minority investment and strategic partnership with Mitsui & Co., Ltd. into Nightingale Health, Ltd. a Finnish medtech company.
- Persol Holdings on the combination of its S.W Asia business (including Thailand) with Kelly Services.
- Hitachi on its acquisition of Horizon Power and its UK nuclear sites from E.ON and RWE.
- Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Bank in connection with the establishment of its Thai subsidiary, Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Bank (Thai) PCL.
- A global healthcare company on its joint venture with Daiichi-Sankyo for a vaccine business in Japan.
Education
- LLB, The University of Tokyo, 2004
- LLM, Kings College London, 2015
Admissions
- Bengoshi Japan, Daini Tokyo Bar Association, 2007
Languages
- English
- Japanese