Visional, Inc. - IPO and listing on the Tokyo Stock Exchange
Leading Japanese law firm Nishimura & Asahi advised Visional, Inc. [TSE: 4194], which owns a widely recognized professional job-matching platform BizReach, Inc., on its JPY 66.88 billion (approx. USD 618 million) initial public offering and listing on the Tokyo Stock Exchange, becoming Japan’s first “unicorn” to be listed on the TSE in 2021.
The Nishimura & Asahi team advising Visional was led by Kohei Koikawa and Kentaro Sugimoto.
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Kentaro has been involved in a significant number of capital market transactions including Euro bond offerings, global bond offerings, IPOs, follow-on offerings and convertible bonds offerings, conducted by both Japanese issuers and foreign issuers, as the issuer’s counsel or underwriter’s counsel. In addition, he advises on compliance with Japanese disclosure and reporting requirements.
He has an extensive track record representing issuers, managers, and selling shareholders in various capital market transactions, including global IPOs, global follow-on offerings, convertible bond offerings, debt offerings, private investments in public companies (PIPEs), and J-REIT offerings. He has also been active in finance transactions by venture companies.