Mizuho Financial Group Inc., (TSE:8411), one of the largest, full-service financial institutions in the world, on its sale of its global custody and related businesses outside of Japan, handled by Mizuho entities in the United States and Luxembourg, to State Street Bank Corporation (NYSE: STT), one of the largest world's leading providers of financial services to institutional investors.

Toyota Tsusho Corporation (TSE: 8015), a leading Japanese trading company, on its landmark US$1.34 billion acquisition of Radius Recycling, Inc. (Nasdaq: RDUS), a North American metal recycling and steel manufacturing company.

Panasonic Corporation 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$5.5 billion

Mizuho Leasing Company, Limited, a Japanese leasing company, in its take-private acquisition of Aircastle Limited (NYSE: AYR), a Bermuda aircraft leasing company, together with consortium partner Marubeni Corporation, a Japanese integrated trading and investment business conglomerate as well as the largest shareholder of Aircastle pre-acquisition

Mizuho Leasing Company, Limited, in the US$160 million acquisition of 50 percent of the membership interest of PLM Fleet LLC, a US refrigerated truck leasing and rental company

ValueAct Capital in its acquisition of a stake in Olympus Corporation, ValueAct's first investment in Japan

Fir Tree Partners in its acquisition of a stake in Kyushu Railway Company

Mizuho Securities Co. Ltd., financial advisor to SoftBank Group Corp. on its landmark acquisition for approximately £24.3 billion of ARM Holdings plc.

IHI Corporation, a Japanese industrial group listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange, and its wholly-owned subsidiary IHI Agri-Tech Corporation (IAT) in the sale of IAT’s small-block diesel engine business to Caterpillar Inc. and its subsidiary Perkins Engines Company Limited

Toyo Kohan Co Ltd., a Japan-listed company primarily engaged in the manufacture and sale of steel sheet products in its acquisition of entire shares of Fuji Technica & Miyazu Inc. by offer takeover bids

J.M. Huber Corporation on its acquisition of the specialty chemicals producer Martinswerk GmbH, from Albemarle Corporation. The transaction also includes a 50 percent stake in Austrian-based company MAGNIFIN Magnesiaprodukte GmbH, as well as the acquisition of assets in the US, China, Japan, Korea, Singapore and Taiwan

Haier Group on the acquisition of Sanyo Electric's washing machine business, consumer refrigerator business and white goods sales businesses in seven countries in Asia