Yamanouchi, Nobutoshi

Current Employment Position(s)

Partner

Languages

• English
• Japanese

Lawyer Overview

Nobu Yamanouchi has 30 years of experience advising companies, particularly in the automotive, electronic, and pharmaceutical industries, in cross-border M&A, joint ventures going private transactions, takeover defense, and other corporate matters. His practice also includes advice to non-Japanese multinational clients on strategic issues in litigation, IP, employment, and regulatory matters under Japanese law. He is Partner-in-Charge of the Firm's Tokyo Office.

Nobu has represented various Japanese companies in their cross-border acquisition programs, including: Honda Motor in its acquisition of a Formula One racing company and NTT Data in its acquisition of the consulting business of a French company. He also has advised non-Japanese companies, including Fresenius Medial Care, The Riverside Company, and SanDisk, in their investment activities in Japan.

Nobu is a member of the Daini Tokyo Bar Association in Japan. He is a coauthor of "Understanding the Incidence of Litigation in Japan: A Structuring Analysis," published in The International Lawyer. He also wrote an article for The M&A Lawyer titled "Hostile Takeover Attempt and Poison Pills in a Japanese Way: Livedoor vs. Fuji TV over Nippon Broadcasting."

Areas of Practice

• Mergers & Acquisitions
• Private Equity
• Intellectual Property
• M&A
• Buyouts
• Licensing & Technology Transactions
• Fund Formation
• Venture Capital - Investor
• Venture Capital - Issuer

Representative Cases

• Affymetrix negotiates commercial agreements in Japan
• American Airlines secures alliance with Japan Airlines and wins preliminary antitrust approval for joint venture with British Airways and Iberia , (2009)
• Axcelis Technologies in agreement to sell its interest in joint venture SEN Corporation to Sumitomo Heavy Industries , (2009)
• Daiwa SMBC Capital sells interests in Mazda Car Rental , (2009)
• Deutsche Asset Management invests in Sensory Networks
• Honda Motor Co. forms joint venture with British American Tobacco
• LSI Logic sells Japanese semiconductor manufacturing facility to ROHM Co.
• Mag Instrument files action to protect distinctive design of Mag flashlights in Japan
• NIF SMBC Ventures Co sells Majority Equity Interest in CDS
• NIF Ventures acquires Gakken Credit in MBO
• NTT Data acquires controlling interest in The Revere Group
• Riverside acquires Maos , (2009)
• Riverside acquires Shinsouki Co.
• Strategic Value Partners acquires Tanaka Value Investments
• The Norinchukin Bank acquires interest in Mizuho Securities Co.
• Timken Company acquires Torrington Division of Ingersoll-Rand Company , (2009)

West Practice Categories

Banking & Finance Law, Business & Commercial Law, Business Organizations, Business Successions, Closely Held Businesses, Copyrights, Corporate Governance, Directors' & Officers' Liability, Dissolution, Formation & Business Planning, Franchising, Intellectual Property Law, International Intellectual Property, Joint Ventures, Lending & Secured Transactions, Limited Liability Companies, Mergers, Acquisitions & Divestitures, Non-profit & Tax-exempt Organizations, Partnerships, Patents, Reorganizations, Shareholders' Rights, Technology Licensing, Trade Associations, Trade Dress, Trade Secrets, Trademarks, Venture Capital

Bar Admissions

• Japan

Education

• Tokyo Daigaku - Japan
• U of Michigan - Ann Arbor

Published Works

• Recent Revisions to Japanese Tender Offer Rules: Toward Transparency and Fairness, 2007
• Hostile Takeover Attempt and Poison Pills in a Japanese Way: Livedoor vs. Fuji TV over Nippon Broadcasting, The M&A Lawyer, 2005
• Basic Understandings of M&A Agreements I/II, M&A Review, 2005

Address

Kamiyacho Prime Place
1-17, Toranomon 4-chome
Minato-ku, Tokyo 105-0001, Japan

Phones

81.3.6800.1822 (Business Phone)

Faxes

81.3.5401.2725 (Business Fax)

Emails

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Websites

http://www.jonesday.com