Keiji Hatano, managing partner of S&C’s Tokyo office, was named “Foreign Lawyer of the Year” at Asian Legal Business’ Japan Law Awards 2023 held at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel Tokyo. The awards, attended by 138 people, celebrated the top legal practitioners and firms in Japan, recognizing their achievements and contributions to the industry.
Mr. Hatano’s practice focuses on capital markets, mergers & acquisitions, joint ventures and financial regulations. In the past year, Mr. Hatano represented:
- Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group in a sale of its MUFG Union Bank’s U.S. core regional bank franchise to U.S. Bancorp for $5.5 billion cash and 44 million U.S. Bancorp shares at closing in December 2022 and additional $3.5 billion cash within 5 years of closing;
- Sumitomo Pharma and Sumitovant Biopharma in their $2.9 billion “going-private” acquisition of Myovant Sciences in March 2023;
- Rakuten Bank in its IPO in April 2023, the largest Japanese IPO since 2018; and
- Japan Post Bank in its $9.2 billion global equity offering in March 2023.