Gaku Ishiwata
Marunouchi Park Building
2-6-1 Marunouchi
Chiyoda-ku
Biography: Corporate Governance
Gaku Ishiwata is a partner of Mori Hamada & Matsumoto. His main areas of practice are mergers and acquisitions, private equity and other corporate and securities matters. He was involved in formulating the takeover defence guidelines issued by the Ministry of Justice and the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry of Japan as a member of the corporate value study group. He was also involved in amending the tender offer regulations as a member of the sectional committee on the financial system of the Financial System Council. Mr Ishiwata is a lecturer at Kyoto University Law School.Recent examples of major M&A transactions on which he advised include the merger between Nikko Cordial Corporation, the third-largest securities firm in Japan, and Citigroup's subsidiary (US$16 billion); and AB Volvo's acquisition of Nissan Diesel (US$2,873 billion).
Mr Ishiwata is a graduate of the University of Tokyo (LLB, 1995) and the University of Chicago (LLM, 2001). He has worked for Davis Polk & Wardwell (from 2001 to 2002) and is admitted to practice in both Japan and New York.
This biography is an extract from The International Who's Who of Corporate Governance Lawyers which can be purchased from our Bookstore.
Biography: Mergers and Acquisitions
Gaku Ishiwata is a partner of Mori Hamada & Matsumoto. His main areas of practice are mergers and acquisitions, private equity and other corporate and securities matters. He was involved in formulating the Takeover Defence Guidelines issued by the Ministry of Justice and Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry of Japan as a member of the corporate value study group. He was also involved in amending the tender offer regulations as a member of the sectional committee on financial system of the Financial System Council. Mr Ishiwata is a lecturer at Kyoto University Law School.Recent examples of major M&A transactions on which he advised include the merger between Nikko Cordial Corporation, the third largest securities firm in Japan, and Citigroup's subsidiary (US$16 billion); and AB Volvo's acquisition of Nissan Diesel (US$2.873 billion).
Mr Ishiwata is a graduate of The University of Tokyo (LLB, 1995) and the University of Chicago (LLM, 2001). He has worked for Davis Polk & Wardwell (from 2001 to 2002) and is admitted to practise in both Japan and New York.
This biography is an extract from The International Who's Who of Mergers and Acquisitions Lawyers which can be purchased from our Bookstore.
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