Mergermarket M&A Awards - Japan 2022
Celebrating success in Japanese M&A
The Peninsula, Tokyo
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Managing Partner, Co-Head of Japan, joined CVC in 2015. Atsushi is based in Tokyo and leads our private equity activities in Japan. He is a member of the Asia Private Equity Board and the Asia Executive Committee, a sub-committee of the APEB that oversees and drives our investment activity in the region. Prior to joining CVC, he spent over eleven years at Advantage Partners as a Senior Partner, he led Management and Leveraged BuyOut transactions. Prior to this, he worked for McKinsey & Co., Tokyo, and PricewaterhouseCoopers. Atsushi holds a Doctor of Philosophy from Colorado School of Mines, a Master of Science and a Bachelor of Engineering degree from The University of Tokyo.
Yuka Hata is a Senior Managing Director and heads Fund Investment Team at Japan Investment Corporation (“JIC”).
Ms. Hata joined JIC in July 2020 in order to build and support Japan’ private equity / venture capital ecosystem as well as to provide the risk capital with the investment funds which bring Japan’s industry to the next stage. Prior to joining JIC, as a co-head of private equity, Ms. Hata worked for Nissay Asset Management where she was mainly responsible for European small-mid buyout, GP stake investments, secondary and Japan’s VC funds. She also worked for Nomura Asset Management (or Nomura Private Equity Capital) and managed fund of funds focused on Asia market as a member of Investment Committee.
Ms. Hata is a Chartered Member of the Security Analysts Association of Japan., and received a B.A. in Environmental Information from Keio University and an M.B.A. from Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commerciales-HEC in Paris.
Yoshikazu Hayashi
Senior Vice President
Corporate Development Department
Mitsubishi Chemical Group Corporation
Joined Mitsubishi Chemical Group (MCG) in 2021, leading strategy development and turnaround execution of businesses under MCG umbrella. Prior to MCG, served as Head of M&A, PMI and corporate level restructuring / divestitures at Renesas Electronics and Rohm Semiconductor. Earned B.A. in Law from Keio University, and MBA from Cornell University, graduated with distinction.
Mr. Ito joined PAG in January 2021 and leads the private equity investment team in Japan. He currently serves as a Director of GYRO HOLDINGS. Prior to joining PAG, Mr. Ito held a number of key senior positions at the investment banking division of Credit Suisse, SMBC Nikko, Nomura and Lehman Brothers. He holds a BA in Law at the University of Tokyo and an MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
Engaged in investment banking activities in Deutsche and UBS Securities. Worked for CJ Fund from 2014 to 2020 and rejoined as of July 2022. Has experience in M&A director at Fujitsu.
Kyoto University, Bachelor of Agriculture
Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University,
Master of Informatics
Mai Mizuta is Managing Director of Teneo’s Japan office. She is responsible for advising Teneo’s local and global clients on the issues most pressing to CEOs and leadership in Japan. This includes strategic positioning, corporate governance, ESG, financial communications, shareholder activist defense, and stakeholder relations, among others.
Prior to Teneo, Mai spent 12 years with Acuris, where she was Asia-Pacific Content Director for global M&A intelligence services Mergermarket and Dealreporter. At Acuris, she was responsible for editorial content direction, strategy, and the management of seven bureaus across the Asia-Pacific region. She led a dedicated team of journalists and editors covering M&A and news related to corporates and private equity.
Mai speaks Japanese and English, and has been based in Tokyo since 2008. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature from the University of British Columbia, Canada.
Teneo is the global CEO advisory firm. Working exclusively with the CEOs and senior executives of the world’s leading companies, Teneo provides strategic counsel across their full range of key objectives and issues.
Teneo’s clients include a significant number of the Fortune 100 and FTSE 100, as well as other corporations, financial institutions, and organizations. Integrating the disciplines of strategic communications, investor relations, restructuring, management consulting, physical & cyber risk, financial advisory, corporate governance advisory, ESG, DE&I, political & policy risk, and talent advisory, Teneo solves for the most complex business challenges and opportunities.
April 1992 The Nippon Credit Bank, Ltd. (name changed to Aozora Bank, Ltd. in January 2001)
July 2016 Joint General Manager, Acquisition and Project Finance Division
July 2018 General Manager of Acquisition and Project Finance Division
July 2020 Executive Officer,
General Manager of Acquisition and Project Finance Division
July 2021 Executive Officer, Deputy Head of Corporate Banking Group
General Manager of Acquisition and Project Finance Division
January 2022 Executive Officer, Deputy Head of Corporate Banking Group,
GM of Infrastructure and Environment Finance Division, and
GM of Acquisition & Structured Finance Division
April 2022 Executive Officer, Head of Acquisition & Structured Finance Group, Head of Environment Business Group,
GM of Acquisition & Structured Finance Division, and
GM of Infrastructure and Environment Finance Division
Joined Fujitsu in 2020, and since then, leading the M&A team of the group. Before joining Fujitsu, engaged in audit at Chuo Aoyama PricewaterhouseCoopers, then in M&A advisory / Investment Banking business at Nomura and Morgan Stanley
BA in Economics, Hitotsubashi University
In December 2006, Mr. Sasayama assumed the post of Representative Director of MCo. As chairman of the investment committee, he is involved in investment review and decision-making for all MCo deals. In addition to sourcing deals by leveraging diverse relationships, he is also involved in fundraising and investor relations, overseeing the overall management of MCo.
Prior to joining MCo, he was engaged in M&A finance-related businesses for over 10 years at the Long-Term Credit Bank of Japan (current Shinsei Bank, Ltd), the Industrial Bank of Japan, and Mizuho Corporate Bank (current Mizuho Bank, Ltd.) As a pioneer in M&A finance in Japan, he has arranged many one-stop deals, including sourcing, structuring and syndication.
Mr. Sasayama earned his BA in Economics at Keio University; he earned his MBA at Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell University.
Yoichiro Shimizu is responsible for Datasite’s business development strategies and growth in Japan, as well as management of the local team.
He has more than 20 years’ experience in IT solution sales with major IT consulting firms and system integrators (SI). Shimizu began his career as a sales and marketing executive in New York to develop new opportunities for finance, high tech, automotive, manufacturing, and other verticals where he built strong and long-term relationships with channel accounts, SI partners, and C-level executives.
With extensive knowledge of country risk management and macroeconomics, Shimizu has worked with German, UK and US companies based in Japan. He also managed a startup company as CEO for more than 9 years and lead it to profitability.
About Datasite
Datasite, formerly known as Merrill Corporation, is a leading SaaS provider for the M&A industry, empowering dealmakers around the world with the tools they need to succeed across the entire deal lifecycle. For more information, visit www.datasite.com
Norie Hata is chief correspondent for Dealreporter, an Acuris company, based in Tokyo. At Dealreporter, a sister product of Mergermarket, Norie analyzes live, expected and special sit situations of Japan’s major M&A deals. She has written numerous stories on such high-profile deals as Toshiba Memory, Hitachi Kokusai Electric, Asatsu-DK, PanaHome and Alpine Electrics.
Norie joined Dealreporter in 2005. Previously, she was a senior correspondent for Thomson Reuters’ IFR where she covered mainly fixed income and banking consolidation, and Nihon Keizai Shimbun (Nikkei)’s English language newspaper.
Ryuya Shiga is Japan Bureau Chief of Mergermarket and has been leading the M&A coverage in Japan since 2022. He has provided actionable business intelligence involved in private equity buyouts and exits, domestic and cross-border M&A, including high-profile scoops on corporate carve -out. He joined Mergermarket in 2014 and has covered industrials & chemicals, logistics, consumer and leisure sectors.
Prior to Mergermarket, he worked in Tokyo-based TV stations where he covered corporate news, stock market, and international news as a reporter and field director.
Noz joined Mergermarket in July 2008 to run financial services, TMT and private equity fields. He has covered non-core divestitures by Japanese blue-chip firms, cross-border M&A as well as PE buyouts and exits. Prior to joining Mergermarket, He had worked for various news services and foreign banks, including International Financing Review (Thomson Reuters’ capital market magazine) as well as AFX News (financial news unit of Agence France-Presse) to cover a variety of topics ranging from Japanese corporates global fundraising via equities and syndicated lending, Japanese government bonds, corporate earnings to macro-economic news. At Mergermarket, he has broken scoops on Calsonic Cansei, Hitachi, Panasonic, Takeda Pharmaceutical, Toshiba, JT, Fujitsu, Accordia Golf, Wanbishi and Clarion, among others.