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Masahisa
Ikeda
Partner
Education
Harvard University, Law School, J.D., 1993
University of Tokyo, LL.B., 1990
Harvard University, A.B., 1989
Practice
Mr. Ikeda is the Managing Partner of Shearman & Sterling's Tokyo office. Mr. Ikeda’s practice covers general corporate matters, with a particular focus on capital markets and M&A transactions. He has extensive experience representing Japanese issuers and underwriters in registered global offerings, listings and in global private placements, and representing Japanese corporations either as buyers or sellers in cross-border M&A and private equity transactions. He has provided securities law advice to numerous industrial and financial clients in Japan, including many of the largest electronics manufacturers, high-technology companies, securities firms, and U.S. and Japanese regulatory authorities.
Recent Experience
- Toyota Motor Corporation as the issuer and selling shareholders (Banks’ Shareholdings Purchase Corporation) in a US$2.6 billion SEC-registered international equity offering. Nomura Securities, Merrill Lynch and Nikko Citi Group acted as joint lead bookrunning managers
- The initial purchasers, led by Goldman Sachs International, Daiwa SMBC and Nomura International plc as joint-lead managers and joint bookrunners, of a US$1.5 billion Rule 144A/Reg S global offering of common stock listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange by Aeon Co., Ltd.
- The initial purchasers, led by Morgan Stanley, of a US$504 million SEC-registered international equity offering of shares of common stock of Ctrip as issuer and Rakuten as selling shareholder
- Daiwa Securities SMBC, Mitsubishi UFJ Securities and Goldman Sachs as joint-lead underwriters in a US$550 million Rule 144A/Reg S global offering of SUMCO Corporation
- Daiwa Securities SMBC and Mitsubishi UFJ Securities as joint global coordinators in a
US$1.47 billion Rule 144A/Reg S IPO of SUMCO Corporation
- Central Japan Railway Company as issuer and the Japanese government as selling shareholder in connection with its US$4.28 billion IPO, involving a Rule 144A/Reg S international offering of shares and a concurrent domestic public offering of shares listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange. Nomura Securities and UBS Securities acted as joint-lead bookrunning managers
- The Japan National Oil Corporation as the selling shareholder in the privatization of INPEX Corporation, through its US$1.5 billion Rule 144A/Reg S international offering of shares listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange. Nomura Securities and Daiwa Securities SMBC acted as joint-lead bookrunning managers
- The initial purchasers, led by Goldman Sachs International and Nomura International plc as
joint-lead managers and joint bookrunners, of a US$937 million Rule 144A/Reg S global offering of common stock listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange by Aeon Co., Ltd.
- Kikkoman Corporation and Kibun Food Chemifa Co., Ltd. in a transaction making Kibun Food Chemifa, consolidated subsidiary of Kikkoman, a wholly owned subsidiary of Kikkoman through a share exchange
- Kioritz Corporation and Shindaiwa Corporation in their business integration by establishing a joint holding company through a share transfer
- Fujifilm Holdings Corporation as US counsel in connection with its US$1.44 billion acquisition of Toyama Chemical Co., Ltd., jointly with Taisho Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.
- Mizuho Corporate Bank, Ltd. in its 300 billion yen investment in Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc.
- Kirin Holdings Company, Limited as U.S. counsel in its US$1.47 billion tender offer for Kyowa Hakko Kogyo Co., Ltd.
- The Longreach Group in its US$694 million acquisition of a 51% interest in EnTie Commercial Bank, Ltd., a Taiwanese commercial bank, through the purchase of newly-issued common and preferred shares and the purchase of common shares from existing shareholders
- Pioneer Corporation in its US$122 million global tender offer for shares of Tohoku Pioneer Corporation
- Nomura Principal Finance in its US$2.3 billion global tender offer for Skylark Co., Ltd. as part of the largest management buyout in Japan
- Nomura Principal Finance in its US$858 million global tender offer for Tsubaki Nakashima Co., Ltd.
- Kirin Breweries in its US$675 million global tender offer for Kirin Beverage Corporation
- Kirin Breweries in its US$250 million global tender offer for Mercian Corporation
- Volvo AB in its US$1.07 billion global tender offer for Nissan Diesel Motor Co., Ltd.
- Seven-Eleven Japan Co., Ltd. in its US$1.2 billion tender offer for the publicly held shares of
Seven-Eleven, Inc., the world’s largest chain of convenience stores
- Merrill Lynch International Inc. as financial adviser to UFJ Holdings, Inc. in its US$41.4 billion
SEC-registered share exchange merger with Mitsubishi Tokyo Financial Group (“MTFG”), under MTFG’s holding company
- Merrill Lynch International Inc. as financial advisor to Daiichi Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. in its
US$7.4 billion SEC-registered share exchange merger with Sankyo Co., Ltd. under a newly established holding company
- The Longreach Group Limited in its acquisition of 24.98% interest in McDonald’s Holdings Company (Japan), Ltd., a division of McDonald’s Corporation, from the Fujita Family for US$670 million
Bar Admissions/Qualifications
New York
District of Columbia
Japan (as a Gaikokuho Jimu Bengoshi)
Languages
English
Japanese
French
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