Lawyers

Nirav N. Mehta joined the Firm’s Tokyo office in 2018 and has been Special Counsel since 2019. His practice focuses on capital markets and other corporate transactions, and he has a broad range of experience representing issuers, underwriters and other market participants, including initial and follow-on public offerings of equity and senior and subordinated note offerings as well as consent solicitations, exchange offers and other liability management transactions, both on a registered basis and pursuant to various exemptions from registration with the SEC.
 
A native speaker of English, Mr. Mehta is also a fluent speaker of Japanese.

SELECTED REPRESENTATIONS

Capital Markets
 
Mr. Mehta’s issuer-side representations include:

• Nippon Prologis REIT, Inc. in its $325 million follow-on global offering of investment units in 2020. 
• Nomura Holdings, Inc. in its $3.0 billion offering of senior notes pursuant to an automatically effective shelf registration statement in 2020, the first ever issuance of TLAC-qualifying notes by a non-bank Japanese financial institution
• Japan Post Insurance in its $2.9 billion global equity offering in 2019
• Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited in an Exxon Capital exchange offer over $4.5 billion of senior notes in 2019, the first ever by a Japanese issuer
• Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited in its listing on the New York Stock Exchange in 2018
• Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited in its €7.5 billion global notes offering and $5.5 billion global notes offering in 2018
• Softbank Corp in its $23.55 billion global IPO in 2018

 
Mr. Mehta’s underwriter-side representations include:

• The initial purchasers in Rakuten, Inc.’s $800 million offering of senior notes pursuant to Regulation S in 2019
• The international managers in Recruit Holdings Co., Ltd.’s $3.3 billion follow-on global equity offering in 2019
• The international managers in a ¥33.8 billion follow-on global offering of investment units by Nomura Real Estate Master Fund, Inc., a Japanese Real Estate Investment Trust in 2019

 
Mr. Mehta’s representations prior to joining the Firm include:

• 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 follow-on equity offering in 2015
• Skylark Co., Ltd. in its $700 million follow-on offering of equity in 2015 and $610 million initial public offering in 2014
• Kobe Steel, Ltd. in its $990 million follow-on equity offering in 2014
• Mitsubishi Motors Corporation in its $2.3 billion follow-on 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