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PayPal Holdings, Inc. on its acquisition of Paidy Inc., a leading two-sided payments platform and provider of buy now, pay later solutions in Japan, for an enterprise value of ¥300 billion, or approximately US$2.7 billion (2021)

Starwood Capital Group on its tender offer for Invesco Office J-REIT, Inc., a listed J-REIT in Japan, for ¥22,500 per investment unit (total equity value of approximately ¥198 billion, publicly reported debt of ¥126 billion, for an enterprise value of approximately ¥325 billion) (2021)

Panasonic Corporation on its acquisition of the remaining 80% of the capital stock interests of Blue Yonder, a leading end-to-end, digital fulfillment platform provider, at an enterprise value of US$8.5 billion on a cash-free, debt-free basis. The transaction will be carried out by way of a merger of a wholly-owned subsidiary of Panasonic Corporation with and into Blue Yonder, with Blue Yonder as the surviving corporation following the merger. This transaction adds to the 20% stake of Blue Yonder which Panasonic Corporation acquired in July 2020, also represented by White & Case (2021)

SoftBank Group Corp., a Japanese multinational conglomerate holding company, in the business combination between its portfolio company, Berkshire Grey, Inc., a US based robotics company, and Revolution Acceleration Acquisition Corp (Nasdaq: RAAC), a special purpose acquisition company, to create a leading publicly listed robotics and automation solutions company with a post-transaction equity value of up to US$ 2.7 billion (2021)

Panasonic Corporation, a global corporation developing innovative technologies and solutions for wide-ranging applications in the consumer electronics, housing, automotive and B2B sectors, on its 20 percent strategic equity investment in Blue Yonder, a leading US end-to-end supply chain software provider with an estimated enterprise value of US$5.5billion (2020)

Special committee of LINE Corporation (LINE) in the sale process of LINE in its pending take-private by Naver Corp. and SoftBank Group Corp., to be followed by a merger between LINE with internet portal Yahoo Japan Corp., in a transaction valuing LINE at approximately US$12 billion. This transaction was awarded "M&A Deal of the Year: North Asia" at the Asia Legal Awards 2020 and “M&A Deal of the Year (Premium)” at the ALB Japan Law Awards 2020 (2020).

Several Japanese listed companies in their response to investments by activist shareholders (2019 – 2020)

ValueAct Capital in its acquisition of a stake in JSR Corporation (2020)

Mizuho Leasing Company, Limited on its take-private acquisition of Aircastle Limited (NYSE: AYR) with an approximately US$2.4 billion equity value (2020)

A global private equity fund in its acquisition of a biotech startup in the United States (2019)