AEON RETAIL and AEON Bank's WAON Value Issuer business to be transferred to AEON Financial Service through company split Home Practices AEON RETAIL and AEON Bank's WAON Value Issuer business to be transferred to AEON Financial Service through company split Period October, 2024 Practices M&A Capital Markets People Hideki Ben Hideki Ben Partner Tokyo +81-3-6266-8721 hideki.ben@morihamada.com M&A Corporate Law Takanori Shinohara Takanori Shinohara Partner Tokyo +81-3-6266-8783 takanori.shinohara@morihamada.com Financial Regulation Corporate Law Crisis Management / Compliance Dispute Resolution Consumer Law Naoki Shiraiwa Naoki Shiraiwa Senior Associate Tokyo +81-3-6213-8171 M&A Corporate Law Dispute Resolution Katsumasa Suzuki Katsumasa Suzuki Partner Tokyo +81-3-6212-8327 katsumasa.suzuki@morihamada.com M&A Corporate Law Capital Markets Crisis Management / Compliance Related Cases June 3, 2025 Case Highlights Privatization of Makino Milling Machine by MBK Partners (represented MBK Partners as a white knight) Shuhei Uchida Masaaki Hirota Kei Shirakawa Masaki Kakimoto June, 2025 International Offering by BuySell Technologies Co., Ltd.(June, 2025) Toshimitsu Nemoto Tetsuya Tamura Tomohiro Oka June, 2025 Privatization of TRYT by Carlyle (represented TRYT) Masaaki Hirota Ryosuke Shigaki May 29, 2025 Case Highlights Privatization of SBI Sumishin Net Bank by NTT DOCOMO and capital and business alliance among Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Bank, NTT DOCOMO, and SBI Sumishin Net Bank (represented Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Bank) Yoshihiro Kojima Masaaki Hirota May, 2025 Case Highlights Japan Tobacco (JT): Sale of pharmaceutical business and Torii Pharmaceutical to Shionogi Hideki Ben Kazuhiro Kanamaru Taichi Arai Yusuke Takamiya Yurika Inoue Yuki Kawai Kohei Shiozaki May, 2025 TOKYU LAND CORPORATION's participation in a logistics development project located in Singapore based on the partnership with ESR Group through TOKYU LAND ASIA PTE. LTD. Ryutaro Kawamura Fuminori Kato Yashaswee Sarkhel Go back to Cases