Saeko Inaba counsels private equity funds and strategic investors on leveraged buyouts, mergers and acquisitions and divestitures across industries. Based in Tokyo, she has an understanding of both the global and regional deal market as well as dynamics particular to Japan.
Saeko has extensive experience guiding complex cross-border deals. She has played a leading role in two of the largest private equity deals in Japan and the largest private equity deal in Asia. In addition to providing deal guidance, Saeko is well versed in navigating regulatory issues and related legal questions that arise in transactions spanning multiple jurisdictions.
Clients value Saeko’s knowledge of the Japanese legal landscape and business culture, honed over the course of her career, which includes experience at a major Japanese law firm and in the legal department of the U.S. operation of a Japanese trading company.
Experience
- Bain Capital in its approximately $3 billion leveraged buyout of Evident Corporation from Olympus Corporation.
- The consortium led by Bain Capital in the approximately $7.5 billion leveraged tender offer for Proterial, Ltd. (formerly Hitachi Metals, Ltd.). The transaction was awarded the “Technology, Media and Telecommunications Deal of the Year” and “Debt Market Deal of the Year” by the Asian Legal Business.
- Bain Capital in its leveraged tender offer for Snow Peak, Inc.
- Bain Capital in its leveraged tender offer for T&K TOKA CO., LTD.
- Bain Capital in its approximately $1.4 billion sale of Nichii Holdings Co., Ltd. to Nippon Life Insurance Company.
- Bain Capital in its approximately $875 million leveraged tender offer for Showa Aircraft Industry Co., Ltd.
- Bain Capital in its approximately $18 billion acquisition of Kioxia Corporation (formerly Toshiba Memory Corporation) from Toshiba Corporation, by way of a Bain Capital-led consortium including Apple, Seagate Technology, Kingston Technology, Hoya, Dell Technologies and SK hynix. The transaction was awarded the “Japan Deal of the Year” by the Asian Legal Business and the “Private Equity Deal of the Year” by IFLR Asia-Pacific Awards, among others.
- Kioxia Holdings Corporation, a world leader in memory products and solutions, in the acquisition of the SSD business, primarily located in Taiwan, from LITE-ON Technology Corporation.
- Bain Capital in its sale of shares of Skylark Co., Ltd. in a secondary offering and an accelerated book building offering.
- Bain Capital, as selling shareholder, in the initial public offerings of Macromill, Inc. and Bellsystem24 Holdings, Inc. on the Tokyo Stock Exchange.
- M/A-COM Technology Solutions, in its acquisition of FiBest Limited.
- Bain Capital in its leveraged tender offers for Yukiguni Maitake Co., Ltd. and Japan Wind Development Co., Ltd.
- Bain Capital in its leveraged acquisition of the Oedo Onsen Monogatari Co., Ltd.
- Bain Capital, as selling shareholder, in the initial public offering of Skylark Co., Ltd., which valued the company at approximately $2 billion. The transaction was awarded the “Equity Deal of the Year” by the Asian Legal Business.
- Bain Capital in its approximately $500 million leveraged tender offer for Macromill, Inc.
- Bain Capital in its partial sale of Domino’s Pizza Japan, Inc. to Domino’s Pizza Enterprises.
- Bain Capital in its partial sale of ownership in Bellsystem24 Holdings, Inc. to Itochu Corporation.