Mizkan Holdings' acquisition of pasta sauces business under the Ragu and Bertolli brands from Unilever group Home Practices Mizkan Holdings' acquisition of pasta sauces business under the Ragu and Bertolli brands from Unilever group Period June, 2014 Practices M&A M&A / Reorganizations / Capital and Business Alliances People Gaku Ishiwata Gaku Ishiwata Partner Managing Partner Tokyo +81-3-5223-7753 gaku.ishiwata@morihamada.com M&A Corporate Law Asset Management / Funds Crisis Management / Compliance Akira Marumo Akira Marumo Partner Tokyo +81-3-5223-7738 akira.marumo@morihamada.com M&A TMT (Technology, Media & Telecom) Structured Finance / Banking Shuhei Uchida Shuhei Uchida Partner Tokyo +81-3-5220-1859 shuhei.uchida@morihamada.com M&A Corporate Law Capital Markets Mikito Ishida Mikito Ishida Partner San Francisco Bay Area +1-415-850-3789 +81-3-6266-8904 (Tokyo) mikito.ishida@morihamada.com M&A Asset Management / Funds Corporate Law Sustainability / Environmental Law 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 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 May, 2025 Privatization of Mitsubishi Shokuhin by Mitsubishi Corporation (represented the special committee of Mitsubishi Shokuhin) Gaku Ishiwata Hideki Ben Go back to Cases