Ken Kiyota

Mr. Kiyota has extensive experience working on both equity and debt offerings involving Japanese corporations, financial institutions and sovereign entities. He also has significant experience working on mergers and acquisitions and general securities law matters for Japanese corporations.

Mr. Kiyota was a member of the Skadden team involved in the following transactions:

• the $8 billion and €2 billion senior notes offering by NTT Finance Corporation
• the ¥167.6 billion global equity offering by Japan Airlines Co., Ltd.
• the ¥22.9 billion global IPO on the Tokyo Stock Exchange of PLAID Inc.
• the ¥120.7 billion global equity offering by Nippon Building Fund Inc.
• the ¥46.3 billion global equity offering by LaSalle LOGIPORT REIT
• the ¥40.5 billion global equity offering by Open House Co., Ltd.
• the ¥35 billion global IPO on the Tokyo Stock Exchange by freee K.K.
• the ¥359.5 billion global common equity offering by Recruit Holdings Co., Ltd., which was named Equity Deal of the Year for 2019 at the 2020 ALB Japan Law Awards
• the ¥130.7 billion global IPO by Mercari Inc., which was named one of Asian-MENA Counsel magazine’s Deals of the Year for 2018
• the ¥21.9 billion global IPO of ARTERIA Networks Corporation
• the ¥48.4 billion global IPO of WORLD Co., Ltd.
• the ¥37.1 billion global equity offering by OUTSOURCING Inc.
• the $1 billion overseas hybrid debt offering by Meiji Yasuda Life Insurance Company
• the $910 million overseas hybrid debt offering by Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance Company, Limited
• the $1 billion and $600 million senior notes offerings by Toyota Industries Corporation
• a ¥22.7 billion global equity offering by Invesco Office J-REIT, Inc.
• a $500 million senior notes offering by Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited
• the ¥41.6 billion global IPO of LIXIL VIVA CORPORATION
• multiple overseas hybrid debt offerings by Nippon Life Insurance Company
• a $1.34 billion overseas hybrid debt offering by Sumitomo Life Insurance Company
• the ¥44 billion, ¥56.8 billion, ¥36.3 billion and ¥34.3 billion global equity offerings by Daiwa House REIT Investment Corporation
• the ¥39.2 billion, ¥41.6 billion and ¥24.1 billion global equity offerings by Invincible Investment Corporation
• multiple SEC-registered bond offerings of Japan Bank for International Cooperation (guaranteed by the Japanese government)
• SEC-registered bond offerings by Japan International Cooperation Agency (guaranteed by the Japanese government) in 2016 and 2017

Mr. Kiyota joined the Corporate Group of Skadden in 2016. Prior to joining Skadden, he worked in the Tokyo office of a leading international law firm.