Keiji Hatano, Managing Partner of S&C’s Tokyo office, was once again named one of Asia Business Law Journal’s Top 100 Lawyers in Japan, an “A-List” of Japan's legal profession based on extensive research conducted by the publication. The nominations were made by professionals at a wide range of Japanese and global companies and law firms.
In the past year, Mr. Hatano represented Rakuten Bank in the largest Japanese IPO since 2018, Japan Post Bank in its $9.2 billion follow-on global offering, Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group in the sale of its U.S. regional banking franchise to U.S. Bancorp, Honda in its first SEC-registered offering of $2.75 billion of green bond notes, and Sumitomo Pharma and Sumitovant Biopharma in their $2.9 billion acquisition of Myovant Sciences shares.