Nirav N. Mehta^*

Capital Markets

Mr. Mehta’s representations as a G.J.B. have included:

• Honda Motor in its $513.4 million equity offering in 2024
• Industrial & Infrastructure Fund in its $324 million global equity offering in 2024
• Integral Corporation in its $140.1 million global IPO in 2023
• Japan Post Bank Co., Ltd. in its $4.0 billion follow-on global equity offering in 2025
• Rakuten Group, Inc. in its $550 million undated subordinated notes offering, ¥50.0 billion senior notes private placement, $2.0 billion senior notes offering and $1.8 billion senior notes offering in 2024 and tender offers to purchase up to $1 billion aggregate principal amount of certain of its outstanding securities in 2024
• SoftBank Corp. in its ¥120 billion issuance of Series 1 Bond-Type Class Shares in 2023
• SoftBank Group in Arm Holdings’ $5.2 billion IPO in 2023
• Takeda Pharmaceutical in its $3.0 billion SEC-registered offering of senior notes and Shire Acquisition Investments Ireland Designated Activity Company and Baxalta Incorporated in their concurrent tender offers to purchase up to $1.5 billion aggregate principal amount of certain of their outstanding securities in 2024
• Toshiba as selling shareholder in Kioxia Holdings’ $783.0 million global IPO in 2024

Mr. Mehta has been part of the S&C team involved in the following issuer-side matters:

• Honda Motor Co., Ltd. in its $2.75 billion SEC-registered offering of green bonds in 2022
• Japan Post Bank Co., Ltd. in its $9.2 billion follow-on global equity offering in 2023

• Japan Post Holdings Co., Ltd. in its $7.4 billion follow-on global equity offering in 2021
• Japan Post Insurance in its $2.9 billion global equity offering in 2019
• Nippon Prologis REIT, Inc. in its $298.4 million global offering of investment units in 2020
• Nippon Steel Corporation in its ¥300 billion offering of zero-coupon convertible bonds in 2021
• Nomura Holdings, Inc. in its $2.0 billion SEC-registered offering of senior notes in July 2024, $1.5 billion SEC-registered offering of senior notes in July 2023, $1.9 billion SEC-registered offering of senior notes in January 2023, $1.9 billion SEC-registered offering of senior notes in July 2022, $2.5 billion SEC-registered offering of senior notes in January 2022, $3.25 billion SEC-registered offering of senior notes in July 2021, $2.5 billion SEC-registered offering of senior notes in July 2020 and in its $3.0 billion offering of senior notes in January 2020
• Rakuten Bank, Ltd. in its $666.7 million global IPO in 2023
• Rakuten Group, Inc. in its $1.9 billion global equity offering in 2023, $450 million “tap” offering of senior notes in January 2023 and in its $500 million offering of senior notes in November 2022
• SoftBank Corp. in its $11.8 billion global equity offering in 2020 and $23.55 billion global IPO in 2018
• Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited in its €3.6 billion offering of senior notes and $7 billion offering of senior notes in 2020, in an Exxon Capital exchange offer in respect of $4.5 billion of senior notes in 2019 (the first ever by a Japanese issuer), in its listing on the New York Stock Exchange in 2018 and in its €7.5 billion offering of senior notes and $5.5 billion offering of senior notes in 2018 in connection with its acquisition of Shire plc

Mr. Mehta has been part of the S&C team involved in the following underwriter-side matters:

• The international managers in a $212.5 million global offering of investment units by Activia Properties Inc. in 2021
• The international managers in a $534 million global offering of investment units by GLP J-REIT, a Japanese Real Estate Investment Trust, in December 2020 and in a $199 million global offering of investment units in June 2020
• The initial purchasers in Mitsui Fudosan Co., Ltd.’s $300 million offering of senior notes in 2022
• The international managers in a $303.7 million global offering of investment units by Nomura Real Estate Master Fund, Inc., a Japanese Real Estate Investment Trust, in 2019
• The initial purchasers in Rakuten Group, Inc.’s €1 billion offering of subordinated notes and $1.75 billion offering of subordinated notes in 2021 and $800 million offering of senior notes pursuant to Regulation S in 2019
• The international managers in Recruit Holdings Co., Ltd.’s $3.3 billion global equity offering in 2019
• The international managers in Skylark Holdings Co., Ltd.’s $369.2 million global equity offering in 2021
• The international managers in SUMCO Corporation’s $1.1 billion global equity offering in 2021
• The international managers in WingArc1st’s $154.8 million initial public offering in 2021

Prior to joining the Firm, Mr. Mehta was involved in the following transactions:

• Mizuho Financial Group, Inc. and its subsidiaries in various offerings of senior and subordinated notes totaling $18.5 billion from 2012 through 2017
• The underwriters in a series of SEC-registered offerings of senior notes by Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, Inc., totaling $13.5 billion from 2016 to 2017
• Kyushu Railway Company in its $3.9 billion initial public offering in 2016
• Sony Corp. in its $3.0 billion equity offering in 2015
• Skylark Co., Ltd. in its $700 million equity offering in 2015 and $610 million initial public offering in 2014
• Kobe Steel, Ltd. in its $990 million equity offering in 2014
• Mitsubishi Motors Corporation in its $2.3 billion equity offering in 2014
• The international managers in the $12 billion initial public offering of Japan Airlines Co., Ltd. in 2012
• The underwriters in the $750 million SEC-registered offering of senior notes by Nippon Telegraph & Telephone Corp. in 2012