Tatsuya Hasegawa

Mr. Hasegawa regularly counsels companies on corporate governance, shareholder activism, securities law compliance, financial regulations, foreign direct investment reviews and other general corporate matters.

Mr. Hasegawa has represented Japanese and multinational clients across a wide variety of industries. His representations since joining Skadden include:

• Dai-ichi Life Holdings, Inc. in its acquisition of a 19.9% strategic minority stake in Canyon Partners and the future right to acquire the remaining stake
• Olympus Corporation in the sale of its subsidiary Olympus Systems Corporation to Accenture Japan Ltd.
• Sanken Electric Co., Ltd. in the unsolicited, partial tender offer launched by the fund managed by Effissimo Management Capital (an Asia-based activist shareholder)
• Terumo Corporation in its 182.6 billion yen international equity offering
• Meiji Yasuda Life Insurance Company in its US$1.75 billion overseas hybrid debt offering
• the underwriters in the 66.8 billion yen global IPO of Socionext Inc. on the Tokyo Stock Exchange and its 185.2 billion yen international equity offering
• the underwriters in the 75.4 billion yen global equity offering by Showa Denko K.K.
• Noile-Immune Biotech Inc. in its 2.7 billion yen global IPO on the Tokyo Stock Exchange
• TMS Co., Ltd. in its 2.5 billion yen global IPO on the Tokyo Stock Exchange
• the underwriters in the 166.6 billion yen global equity offering of Japan Airlines Co., Ltd.
• Recruit Holdings Co., Ltd. in its 339.9 billion yen international equity offering
• freee K.K. in its 35.9 billion yen international equity offering
• the underwriters in the 32.9 billion yen international equity offering by Money Forward, Inc.
• the underwriters in several US$500 million senior notes offerings on the Singapore Stock Exchange by Mitsubishi Corporation
• Intel Corporation in its proposed (but terminated) US$5.4 billion acquisition of Tower Semiconductor
• Renault Group in the restructuring of its long-standing alliance with Nissan Motor Co., Ltd., which included rebalanced cross-shareholding and the formation of a new alliance agreement between the two companies
• Criteo S.A. in its US$380 million acquisition of IPONWEB
• BuzzFeed, Inc. in its acquisition of HuffPost from Verizon Media
• Wolt Enterprises Oy in its £7 billion acquisition by DoorDash, Inc.

Prior to joining Skadden, Mr. Hasegawa worked for a leading Japanese law firm based in Tokyo, where he regularly practiced in cross-border capital market transactions, mergers and acquisitions, real estate investments and financings, corporate governance, securities law compliance and financial regulations. Mr. Hasegawa is fluent in Japanese and English.