Biography: Capital Markets

A member of Davis Polk's corporate department, Mr Paradise is also one of our two resident partners in the Tokyo office. Fluent in Japanese, he has practised in the Tokyo office since 1991. His primary practice areas include capital markets; dispute resolution and mergers and acquisitions, including joint ventures. He also regularly advises on banking; credit; fund formation; and private equity. Mr Paradise regularly advises Japanese companies listed in the United States in connection with their SEC and exchange reporting obligations. In 2010, he advised Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group and Chuo Mitsui Trust Holdings in connection with their respective SEC registrations.

Mr Paradise concentrates on mergers and acquisitions and joint ventures, particularly cross-border transactions involving Japanese parties, as highlighted by his role as counsel to Nikko Cordial Corporation (now Nikko Cordial Securities Inc.) in a share exchange with Citigroup Inc involving the first-ever use of a triangular merger structure by a foreign firm in Japan. More recently, Mr Paradise has advised on cross-border transactions involving Shionogi, Nippon Mining Holdings (now JX Holdings), Chuo Mitsui Trust Holdings and Nippon Life Insurance.

Mr Paradise advises clients on a broad array of corporate finance transactions, including privatisation and IPOs, representing issuers, underwriters and governments in global and US targeted securities offerings, both SEC-registered and exempt, by Japanese issuers. His capital markets clients have included: The Japanese Ministry of Finance, ACOM, Aiful, Aozora Bank, Canon, Cybird, Dai-ichi Mutual Life, Fuji Television Network, Hitachi, Konami, Millea (now Tokyo Marine Holdings), Nippon Life Insurance, ORIX, Promise, Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group and Taiyo Life Insurance. He has worked on other capital markets transactions for Bank of Yokohama, Chuo Mitsui Trust Holdings, JR West, Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, NEC, Nippon Commercial Investment, NS Solutions, NTT, Oracle Corporation Japan, Plat'Home, RHJ International, Shinsei Bank, Sony and Usen.

Mr Paradise has represented Japanese companies in SEC investigations, and securities litigation, among other matters. He also regularly advises on antitrust, bank regulatory matters and FCPA compliance. Mr Paradise advises on the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (the 'Dodd-Frank Act') as well as the developing body of regulations thereunder.

Mr Paradise is listed as a leading lawyer in numerous legal industry publications, including: The International Law Office: Client Choice Awards 2010 – Capital Markets – Japan; ALB Japan Law Awards 2009: International Dealmaker of the Year; Best Lawyers International 2009 – Capital Markets and Corporate/M&A; Chambers Global: The World's Leading Lawyers for Business; Chambers Asia; Key Media's Asian Legal Business, where he was named one of 'Asia's Top 25 M&A Lawyers'; IFLR1000: The Guide to the World's Leading Financial Law Firms; Practical Law Company's Cross-border Mergers and Acquisitions Handbook and Cross-border Finance: Secured Lending Handbook; Legal Media Group's Expert Guide to the World's Leading Capital Markets Lawyers and Expert Guide to the World's Leading Banking Lawyers; Law Business Research's The International Who's Who of Business Lawyers and The International Who's Who of Capital Markets Lawyers. Mr Paradise received his BA from Indiana University in 1979 and his JD from Yale Law School in 1982. He is admitted to practice in the State of New York and Japan, Gaikokuho Jimu Bengoshi.