Mori Hamada & Matsumoto handles mergers, acquisitions, restructurings and corporate alliances in a wide variety of industries and sectors, including domestic and cross-border transactions, listed company and private equity transactions, friendly and hostile transactions, going-private transactions, MBOs, acquisition finance and takeover defense strategies. The firm is experienced in acting on behalf of both buyers and sellers in all types of transaction structures, including share and asset purchases, tender offers, mergers, corporate splits, share exchanges, new issuances of shares, class shares and stock acquisition rights and subordinated debt, and any combination of the above.

The firm has significant experience acting on the side of both the seller and the buyer in connection with the acquisition of Japanese companies and assets. The firm also handles the financing side of acquisition transactions, including transactions using complex and innovative debt and equity financing techniques.

The firm's size, together with the range of fields in which it practices, make it particularly well-positioned to handle large cross-border acquisitions that often require the quick assembly of a team of lawyers from various practice groups, such as labor, antitrust, real estate and bankruptcy, to handle the array of issues that are likely to arise.

The firm has accumulated cutting-edge know-how by engaging in many of the largest and most complex M&A transactions in Japan. The firm's lawyers have also been deeply involved in the development of Japanese laws and regulations relating to M&A through secondments of our lawyers to governmental agencies as well as participation in various government-sponsored research activities. As a result, the firm has built a strong relationship of trust with courts, relevant authorities, exchanges, scholars and industry professionals.