ITOCHU Corporation: Capital and Business Alliance with Sun Frontier Fudousan Co., Ltd.

Junya handles every kind of M&A deal, whether listed or closed companies, domestic or cross-border, as well as general corporate matters such as shareholders’ meetings and corporate governance. He always provides accurate advice to clients at any time and earns their trust with flexible and dedicated support. In light of his strengths and experience, in recent years, he has been involved in large-scale and complex M&A deals and management integration projects of listed companies. He is also involved in a lot of investment projects by domestic and overseas PE funds. Additionally, with his experience working for law firms in Brazil and Argentina, he supports Japanese companies expanding their businesses to Latin American countries as a member of the Latin American Practice Team. He also has a rich network of law firms in Latin American countries.

Koki is a seasoned expert on a wide range of real-estate transactions (including securitization of real estate) with diversified clients, such as banks, developers, and asset management companies. His coverage includes cross-border real-estate finance, project finance and other finance transactions. Also, he is specialized in REIT, and financial regulatory matters including banking, and asset management.

Junko Wakabayashi specializes in antitrust and competition law. She has extensive experience with various antitrust matters and issues, including merger filings, cartels, transactional matters, and compliance, in both domestic and cross-border cases. She regularly engages with global clients and negotiates with competition authorities on their behalf. Due to her prior experience at the Ministry Land, Infrastructure, Transport, and Tourism, where she engaged in policy and rule making, as well as operations, and built a network of connections in government offices, Junko has a deep knowledge and understanding of regulations and government affairs, particularly those that impact transportation industries (e.g., aviation, automotive). She was seconded to a major energy company, where she acquired familiarity with the energy industry. Her wide range of experience enables her to provide precise, tailored advice that accurately addresses and responds to each client’s needs and business operations.

He has extensive experience handling complex transactions, such as global IPOs and follow-on offerings, private investments in public companies (PIPEs), convertible bonds offerings, debt offerings, and other transactions of class shares, warrants, convertible bonds, and bonds. His involvement in numerous high-profile IPO projects, together with his secondment to the IPO division at Mitsubishi UFJ Morgan Stanley Securities Co., Ltd., has strengthened his practical expertise and capabilities in Japanese IPOs.

He advises clients regarding financial regulations, including disclosure requirements under the Financial Instruments and Exchange Act, Tokyo Stock Exchange rules, and insider trading regulations. He also has experience in a broad range of cross-border matters, including both inbound and outbound transactions.

He was seconded to Mitsubishi UFJ Morgan Stanley Securities Co., Ltd. (IPO Division) from 2019 to 2021 and worked as an international associate at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP’s New York office from 2022 to 2023. He graduated from New York University School of Law (LL.M. in Corporation Law), Waseda Law School (J.D.), and Tokyo Metropolitan University (LL.B.).

He is admitted to practice in Japan and is a qualified lawyer in New York.