Hiroshi Kondo

Hiroshi focuses on mergers and acquisitions, private equity investment, corporate/commercial and labor law. He has acted as lead counsel for several high-profile M&A transactions in Japan’s consumer industries, including food and beverage, pharmaceuticals, telecommunications and insurance markets. He also has extensive experience in private equity investments — particularly with MBOs and LBOs — corporate restructuring, securities regulation, anti-monopoly regulation and labor dispute resolution.

• Represented the largest domestic beer manufacturer in its acquisition of a beverage company in Australia.

• Represented a domestic consumer goods manufacturer in its acquisition of a major company in the same trade in Australia.

• Represented a major foreign insurance company concerning a tender offer for a Japanese insurance company.

• Represented a European telecommunications company in the purchase and subsequent sale of its stake in one of Japan’s largest telecommunications companies and its wireless arm.

• Counseled a major Japanese life insurance company concerning a complex demutualization merger involving the following components: establishment of a new joint venture company (i.e., K.K.) of a life insurance company with a major e-commerce and Internet conglomerate; takeover of the assets of a bankrupted life insurer; and an eventual merger of a major Japanese life insurance (mutual) company with the joint venture for the purpose of the demutualization.

• Acted on behalf of a major domestic telecommunications company in one of the world’s largest mergers by three of Japan’s telecommunications companies.

• Japan Federation of Bar Associations
• Tokyo Bar Association

• San Francisco