Linklaters

We are able to field integrated teams of Japanese and international lawyers on transactions seamlessly crossing product, practice and jurisdictional lines.

We are acclaimed in the market for our ability to create innovative, cutting-edge structures required for today’s rapidly evolving domestic and multi-jurisdictional transactions – a key competitive advantage for our clients in the current climate. To do this, we regularly draw upon the firm’s regional and global expertise to ensure our clients have the necessary state-of-the-art legal technology at their disposal, whenever and wherever that advice is needed.

In awarding Linklaters ‘Best Foreign Financial Law Firm’ in Japan for the fourth consecutive year in 2011, FinanceAsia said: “… Linklaters has a rounded practice in Tokyo that offers a full-service to both Japanese and international clients”.

For more than 20 years, the firm has advised on some of Japan’s most significant transactions in the areas of mergers & acquisitions (including acquisition finance and general corporate advice); private equity, banking, projects, restructuring & insolvency, financial markets regulation, investment funds, capital markets (including derivatives & structured products, equity & debt capital markets and structured finance); and real estate (including real estate finance and securitisation of assets).

Recent significant transactions include advising: 

• >Nippon Telegraph & Telephone Corporation (NTT) on the £2.1 billion recommended offer for Dimension Data, a South African IT firm listed in London and South Africa – the largest acquisition of an African company by a Japanese acquirer
• the Managers on Orix Corporation’s issue of RMB400 million – the first renminbi bond issued by a Japanese issuer
• Diamond Generating Asia, Limited (a wholly-owned subsidiary of Mitsubishi Corporation) on the US$250 million acquisition from CLP Holdings Limited and subsequent sale to The Tokyo Electronic Power Company Inc. of a 12% interest in Electricity Generating Company Limited, a Thai listed power company
• Morgan Stanley & Co. International plc and Nomura International plc as International Managers on Shinsei Bank, Limited's ¥72 billion 144A international offering of 690 million shares of common stock
• Royal Bank of Scotland as mandated lead arranger on the ¥10 billion asset back financing for US-based Synnex’s acquisition of Marubeni Infotec Corporation from Marubeni Corporation – the first Japanese security trust deal that was done under LMA style documentation
• Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation on the setup of a Trust Notes program, which was issued by trustees under the Trust Act of Japan – the first time trust notes were issued in Japan
• TDK Corporation on its recommended offer for German listed EPCOS AG – the largest public takeover of a German company by a Japanese acquirer
• Bank of America with respect to the merger of their Japanese business with Merrill Lynch in Japan
• the Underwriters on change of control and bankruptcy remoteness issues related to the Japanese property portfolio of Global Logistic Properties in connection with its US$3.9 billion IPO in Singapore 
• Citigroup Global Markets Limited and J.P. Morgan Securities Ltd. as Joint Lead Managers on Mitsubishi Corporation’s issue of US$500 million 2.75 per cent Bonds due 2015 – Mitsubishi Corporation's first overseas bond issue in 25 years – Best International Bond Award, FinanceAsia Japan Achievement Awards 2010
• the Mandated Lead Arrangers on the financing of Permira’s ¥250 billion (approx) acquisition of Arysta LifeScience from Olympus Capital – Asia-Pacific Loan of the Year and Asia- Pacific Leveraged Loan of the Year, IFR Awards 2008  

Linklaters Tokyo is the business name of Gaikokuho Kyodo-Jigyo Horitsu Jimusho Linklaters, a firm organised under the Japanese Civil Code, which is affiliated to Linklaters LLP.