Our Japan practice is headed by our resident partner in Tokyo, who is listed among the market’s very top legal advisers for securities and M&A transactions. Our resident partner in Tokyo leads a team of highly skilled lawyers who combine in-depth knowledge of the Japanese business environment with unsurpassed experience in sophisticated global transactions. Beyond Tokyo, a core team of lawyers in our New York and Silicon Valley offices frequently work in close coordination with their colleagues in Tokyo to advise Japanese clients with respect to a broad mix of complex litigation matters, including global enforcement actions, antitrust investigations and IP and patent disputes.

• Hitachi. We advised Hitachi, a leading global technological and industrial company based in Japan, on a ¥265 billion ($3 billion) Regulation S offering of common stock and a concurrent ¥100 billion ($1.1 billion) Regulation S offering of convertible bonds.
  
  
  
• NEC Corporation. We advised the joint lead managers on a $1.3 billion Regulation S offering of common stock of NEC Corporation, one of the world’s leading providers of Internet, broadband network and enterprise business solutions.
  
  
  
• Aiful Corporation. We advised Aiful Corporation, a leading consumer credit company in Japan, in connection with its recent consensual debt restructuring procedures. Aiful’s restructuring was conducted under the business revitalization procedures prescribed in the Act on Special Measures for Industrial Revitalization. The Aiful restructuring is one of the largest and most complex restructurings to be conducted in Japan and was completed in December 2009.
  
  
  
• Nippon Life Insurance. We advised Nippon Life Insurance, a Japanese life insurer, as purchaser of a $500 million offering of surplus notes by The Prudential Insurance Company of America.

• Daikin Industries/Goodman Global. We are advising Daikin Industries, a diversified Japanese manufacturing company and producer of heating, ventilating and air conditioning (HVAC) products, in connection with its $3.7 billion acquisition of Goodman Global, a Houston, Texas-based manufacturer of HVAC products, from affiliates of Hellman & Friedman.
  
  
  
• The Dai-ichi Life Insurance/Janus Capital. We are advising The Dai-ichi Life Insurance, Japan’s third-largest life insurance company, on its strategic alliance with Janus Capital, a global investment firm offering strategies from three individual investment firms: Janus, INTECH and Perkins, where Dai-ichi Life will acquire a 15%-20% stake in, and make a $2 billion capital contribution to, Janus.
  
  
  
• Tokyo Stock Exchange Group/ Osaka Securities Exchange. We advised Tokyo Stock Exchange Group in connection with its $1.9 billion merger with Osaka Securities Exchange, creating Japan’s largest stock exchange group.
  
  
  
• Nikko Asset Management/Sumitomo Trust & Banking. We advised Nikko Asset Management, a Japanese investment management company, on its ¥112.4 billion acquisition by Sumitomo Trust and Banking, a Japanese bank.
  
  
  
• Japan Single-Residence REIT/Crescendo Investment. We advised Japan Single-Residence REIT in connection with its merger with Crescendo Investment. The newly formed entity has approximately $1.5 billion in assets under management.
  
  
  
• Mitsubishi UFJ Lease & Finance/Jackson Square Aviation. We are advising Mitsubishi UFJ Lease & Finance Company, a Japanese global leasing company, on its $1.3 billion acquisition of Jackson Square Aviation, a San Francisco, California-based full-service aircraft leasing company, from Oaktree Capital Management.
  
  
  
• SMFG Credit & Card/Cedyna Financial. We advised SMFG Credit & Card, the credit card unit of Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group, a Japanese financial services company, on its $1.152 billion acquisition of the remaining stake of Cedyna Financial, a Japanese credit card and consumer finance company, that it does not already own.
  
  
  
• Shionogi/Sciele Pharma. We advised Shionogi & Co., a pharmaceutical firm headquartered in Osaka, Japan, on its $1.1 billion acquisition of Sciele Pharma, an Atlanta, Georgia-based midsize pharmaceutical company.
  
  
  
• Emerson/Nidec. We advised Emerson, a global technology company, in connection with the sale of its Motors and Appliance Controls businesses to Nidec, a Kyoto, Japan-based manufacturer of small precision motors.
  
  
  
• Toyo Seikan Kaisha/ Stolle Machinery Company. We advised Toyo Seikan Kaisha, a Japanese company engaged in the manufacturing and sales of packaging containers, on its $775 million acquisition of Stolle Machinery Company, a Centennial, Colorado-based provider of equipment and services to the consumer container industries, from GSO Capital Partners.
  
  
  
• NEC/Convergys. We advised NEC Corporation, a Japanese integrator of information and network technologies, on its $449 million acquisition of Convergys’ Information Management (IM) business. Convergys, based in Cincinnati, Ohio, is a consumer relationship manager.
  
  
  
• Canon. We advised Canon on a series of share exchange transactions, including its $139 million acquisition of Canon Fintech, a Japanese provider of office and industrial application devices, its $69 million acquisition of Canon Machinery, a Japanese provider semiconductors and electronic devices and its $53 million acquisition of Tokki, a Japanese semiconductor manufacturer.
  
  
  
• Sega Sammy. We advised Sega Sammy, a Japanese entertainment company, in connection with its simultaneous share exchange transactions to take private three of its subsidiaries, Sega Toys, Sammy Networks and TMS Entertainment.
  
  
  
• Mitsubishi Estate/Towa Real Estate Development. We advised Mitsubishi Estate Co., a Japanese real estate company, on its acquisition of the shares it did not already own in Towa Real Estate Development Co., a Japanese homebuilder.
  
  
  
• Furukawa Electric/Riken Electric. We advised Furukawa Electric Co., a Japanese electrical components and equipment provider, on its ¥1.2 billion share exchange with Riken Electric Wire Co., a Japanese manufacturer and seller of electrical components and equipment.

• We represented a major Japanese consumer electronics maker in connection with enforcement of its technology patents.
  
  
  
• We represented a Japanese insurance company in connection with investigations, including the SEC and the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York.
  
  
  
• We represented a Japanese manufacturer in a product disparagement lawsuit against a consumer magazine. In conjunction with this suit, a U.S. federal appellate court reversed a lower court decision, thereby allowing the suit to proceed to a jury trial.
  
  
  
• We obtained a summary judgment in favor of our client, a Japanese manufacturing conglomerate, in a contract action brought in the Supreme Court for the State of New York against a financial institution involving a revolving standby letter of credit.
  
  
  
• We advised a Japanese industrial company in connection with the termination of and settlement agreements for its collaboration arrangement with a U.S. company for the design and construction of specialty equipment.
  
  
  
• We represented a Japanese financial institution in charges of alleged breach of contract and fraud for failure to pay a commission and finder’s fee to a licensed broker.
  
  
  
• We represented a major Japanese financial institution in a grand jury antitrust investigation into market price-fixing for reinvestment agreements.
  
  
  
• We were chosen by Panasonic, SanDisk and Toshiba to defend their joint venture, SD-3C, LLC, against antitrust claims filed recently by Samsung Corporation. The case, filed in federal court in San Francisco, claims that the creation of the SD Card Flash Memory standard and related patent pool activities have harmed consumers and violated the U.S. antitrust laws.