SmartHR, Inc. - Series E Fundraising
Nishimura & Asahi advised SmartHR, Inc., a cloud-native human resources management platform provider, on its Series E fundraising led by Teachers’ Venture Growth, the venture investment arm of Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan and KKR & Co., Inc. [NYSE: KKR], a global investment firm.
The Nishimura & Asahi team advising SmartHR was led by partners Kohei Koikawa and Atsushi Mizushima, supported by Wataru Inagaki.
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Atsushi combines his experience as an entrepreneur in Silicon Valley and his broad experience as a business attorney to provide solutions to tech companies and startups, including the design of transaction flows and contractual frameworks in business model creation, fundraising, various types of business collaboration with large corporations, IP strategy building, global business expansion, and strategic M&A and joint venture deals. For larger corporations, he advises on business collaboration with companies in other industry domains and on investments in and business collaborations with startups as well as on their new business model creation.
He has an extensive track record representing issuers, managers and selling shareholders in various capital markets transactions, incduling global IPOs, global follow-on offerings, convetibles bonds offerings, debt offerings, private investments in public companies (PIPEs), J-REITs offerings. He also has been active in fincance transactions by venture companies.