Tsuyoshi’s practice focuses on leveraged buyouts, mergers and acquisitions, and corporate finance transactions. Tsuyoshi regularly works with clients in transactions across Asia and in Japan.
- Represented Bain Capital in connection with its $2.1 billion (not including assumed debt) acquisition of restaurant chain Skylark Co., Ltd.
- Represented Bain Capital in two financing transactions with an aggregate deal value of over $2 billion.
- Represented Bain Capital in its approximately $1.1 billion leveraged acquisition of Bellsystem24, the leading call center in Japan. The transaction was sold as part of a competitive auction, and was awarded the “2010 Technology, Media & Telecommunications Deal of the Year” by the ALB.
- Represented Bain Capital in its acquisition of Dominos Pizza Japan.
- Represented Jupiter Telecommunications Co., Ltd. in the sale of a subsidiary to NBC Universal, Inc.
- Represented Bain Capital in its approximately $500 million leveraged acquisition of D&M Holdings, Inc., a premium speaker and audio devices company. The transaction was sold as part of a competitive auction, and was awarded the “2009 Technology, Media & Telecommunications Deal of the Year” by the ALB.
- Represented Marubeni Corporation and Tokyo Electric Power Company in their approximately $3.6 billion leveraged acquisition of assets primarily located in the Philippines that was sold in an auction process. That transaction was awarded the Asian Counsel deal of the year for 2007.
- Represented Jupiter Telecommunications, Co., Ltd. in its approximately $1.3 billion initial public offering on the Jasdaq exchange. That transaction was awarded the “Technology, Media and Telecommunications Deal of the Year” by the ALB.
- Represented Carlyle in its approximately $2.2 billion leveraged acquisition of a telecommunications carrier in Japan. That deal was awarded the “M&A Deal of the Year” by the ALB.
Honors & Awards
- Chambers Global: The World’s Leading Lawyers for Business (2011)
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Education
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JD, Northwestern University School of Law, 1999
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BA, University of California, Irvine, 1995
Bar Admissions
- Japan, Gaikokuho Jimu Bengoshi (California), 2011
- California, 2000
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