Advising Hitachi, Ltd. in making its subsidiary Hitachi High-Tech Corporation a wholly owned subsidiary through a tender offer Home Practices Advising Hitachi, Ltd. in making its subsidiary Hitachi High-Tech Corporation a wholly owned subsidiary through a tender offer Period May, 2020 Practices M&A M&A / Reorganizations / Capital and Business Alliances People Tomohiro Tsuchiya Tomohiro Tsuchiya Partner Tokyo +81-3-5223-7740 tomohiro.tsuchiya@morihamada.com M&A Competition / Antitrust Akira Matsushita Akira Matsushita Partner Tokyo +81-3-6266-8553 akira.matsushita@morihamada.com M&A Corporate Law Crisis Management / Compliance Life Science / Healthcare Yurika Inoue Yurika Inoue Senior Associate Tokyo +81-3-6213-8163 M&A Life Science / Healthcare Intellectual Property Corporate Law Shimpei Ochi Shimpei Ochi Partner Tokyo +81-3-6266-8969 M&A Asset Management / Funds 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 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 Yu Furuhashi May, 2025 Case Highlights NTT: Acquisition of NTT Data for JPY 2.37 trillion Minoru Sawaguchi Akira Matsushita Yohsuke Higashi Shimpei Ochi April, 2025 Privatization of AEON MALL Katsumasa Suzuki Takafumi Goto April, 2025 Mori Hamada advised gumi in its formation of blockchain node operating JV in Japan with TIS Masafumi Masuda Takaaki Okano Kosuke Esumi Go back to Cases