Jim Verbeeten leads Bain & Company’s Private Equity and Financial Investor practice in Tokyo. He has more than 20 years of management consulting experience. Jim advises private equity clients on commercial due diligence assignments in a variety of industries and has supported clients with fund strategy and performance improvement of their portfolio companies. Jim also leads the development of Bain’s annual Japan Private Equity report. He first joined Bain's Amsterdam office in 1999 and has worked in Europe, North America and Asia. He has been based out of the Tokyo office since 2007.

Bunsho leads the firm’s Private Equity practice in Japan, where he supports private equity funds and principal investors across the full investment lifecycle. He also leads our Japan Mergers & Acquisitions practice, helping clients to develop their M&A strategy and due dilligence execution.

He has over 15 years of experience in the M&A field and extensive knowledge and experience in corporate and business-unit strategy development, cross-border M&A support—both buy-side and sell-side—and portfolio value, including organisational transformation.

Prior to joining Bain, Bunsho was a partner at another top global consulting firm and at Mitsui & Co., Ltd.

He holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a bachelor’s degree in law from Keio University.