Benjamin C. Han

Benjamin’s experience includes representing:

• Chevron in selling Chevron Hong Kong Limited (CHK), which owns and operates a network of retail fuel stations in Hong Kong, to Banachek Corporation for US$270 million, leading on all IP, IT, and data privacy matters of the deal, including leading negotiations for a trademark license for CHK’s continued use of the Caltex brand and a services agreement for migrating IT systems, rewards programs, and other transitional services
• The world's largest tool company in negotiating business-critical commercial terms of a strategic enterprise resource planning integration arrangement with a leading Japanese payroll provider
• Permira, the global investment firm, on its acquisition of a minority stake in RightShip, a leading maritime digital platform for safety, sustainability, and supply chain due diligence^†
• Warburg Pincus in its US$62.9 million acquisition of Mapfre, an Indonesian and Spain-headquartered multinational insurance business, and in establishing Oona Insurance, a digital general insurance platform in Southeast Asia, including Oona’s initial acquisitions of two general insurance assets in the region, with Ben leading all IT transition aspects of the transaction
• Z Holdings, the holding company of Yahoo Japan, in:
  • Its US$30 billion business integration with LINE — the largest Japan tech deal announced in 2019, and winner of the ALB Japan Law Awards’ M&A Deal of the Year and TMT Deal of the Year, and ALB Korea Law Awards’M&A Deal of the Year^†
  • The tender offer, sale, and exchange involving its publicly traded subsidiary, eBOOK Initiative Japan, a Japan-based company engaged in the creation and distribution of eBooks^†
• Taisho Pharmaceutical in the IP and commercial aspects of its US$1.6 billion acquisition of UPSA*^†
• SoftBank in the IP and outsourcing aspects of its joint ventures with OYO Hotels*^†
• Toshiba in the IP and commercial aspects of the US$18 billion sale of Toshiba Memory to a consortium led by Bain Capital*^†
• Renesas in its US$3.8 billion acquisition of Intersil*^†
• TDK in the IP and commercial aspects of its US$3 billion joint venture with Qualcomm for radio frequency front-end (RFFE) modules and RF filters*^†
• Kioxia (formerly known as Toshiba Memory Corporation), a leading global supplier of flash memory and solid-state drives, in:
  • Negotiating agreements with SanDisk Corporation (formerly Western Digital’s flash memory business) in relation to multiple rounds of joint investments in multi-billion dollar fabrication facilities for the production of 3D BiCS flash memory and associated equipment at Kioxia’s Yokkaichi and Kitakami manufacturing facilities in Japan, including investments in Y7 and K2 Phase 1, Kioxia’s newest NAND flash memory fabrication facilities^†
  • Negotiating its patent license agreements with most of the majorsemiconductor players, as well as other IP-related agreements^†
• A global digital infrastructure investor on the sale of a regional data center colocation platform to a consortium of strategic and financial investors, leading on all brand migration and IP aspects, including the brand migration agreement
• Acclime Holdings Limited in selling the Acclime Group, a Hong Kong-based, pan-Asian corporate services business, to funds controlled by Warburg Pincus, leading on all aspects of IT transition and IP
• Black Spade Acquisition II Co in its business combination with World Media and Entertainment Universal Inc., a France-based global media and entertainment company, advising on trademark and licensing aspects
• Ares Management in acquiring GCP International, alternative asset manager GLP Capital Partners’ real estate asset management business (excluding operations in Greater China), leading on the IP and IT aspects of the deal
• Platinum Equity in acquiring a majority stake in Inventia Healthcare, an India-based pharmaceutical development and manufacturing company of solid oral drug-delivery systems, leading on all IP aspects in addition to transitional service arrangements and structuring various business carve-outs
• Warburg Pincus in its joint venture with Lendlease’s life science business in Asia to launch Vita Partners, a specialist real estate platform capitalizing on the growing life sciences sector in Asia-Pacific, leading on IT transition and trademark licensing matters in relation to the joint venture
• HARPS Global in acquiring Sempermed, a medical business held by Austria-based Semperit AG, leading on IT transition and IP aspects of the deal

*Matter handled prior to joining Latham
†Matter handled under supervision prior to GJB qualification