Noah Carr

Mr. Carr’s transactional experience includes representing:

Strategic and Growth Equity Investing

• Block in the:
  • Series B-1 financing of PT Fliptech Lentera Inspirasi Pertiwi, Indonesia’s leading consumer payments platform
  • Series D financing of Kyash, a leading Japanese fintech platform
• Aspex in its equity investment in Visional, a Japan-based human resources technology business
• SoftBank in the:
  • US$50 million funding round for Clarity AI, an award-winning sustainability tech firm
  • Multibillion-dollar series of primary and secondary preferred share investments in Bytedance, the developer of TikTok, Douyin, and Toutiao 
  • US$220 million Series C financing for Agile Robots AG, a Chinese precision robotics business organized in Germany
  • US$350 million Series C financing for Trusty Cars d/b/a Carro, a Singapore-based online automotive marketplace 
  • US$1.46 billion investment into the Series H financing round of Grab, Southeast Asia’s leading ride-hailing platform
  • Carve-out of Xiaoju Kuaizhi (Didi) and subsequent US$150 million fundraising of Qingju, a leading Chinese bicycle-sharing business 
  • Combined US$9.6 billion primary and secondary investments in Didi, which included the largest-ever venture financing and the largest foreign technology investment in China
  • US$1 billion combined financing in OYO Rooms, India’s leading hospitality business
  • Formation of the OYO China and OYO Hotels Japan joint ventures, as well as follow-on restructurings
  • US$7.7 billion primary and secondary investment into Uber*
  • US$627 million investment in Snapdeal, India’s largest online marketplace*
  • US$1 billion investment in Coupang, the fastest growing standalone e-commerce player in Korea*
  • Various investments in Indian technology start-ups, including its US$200 million investment in InMobi, a mobile advertising and payment technology company; as the lead investor in the US$120 million Series C financing of Grofers International, an express delivery online marketplace application; and the US$210 million Series E financing of Ola Cabs, the leading Indian taxi aggregator*
• Minerva Growth Capital in its minority investment in Roland, a TSE-listed manufacturer of electronic musical instruments, electronic equipment, and software
• An Asian technology investor in the follow-on Series E financing round (following lead investment in preceding D-1 round) in a leading Asian travel and leisure booking platform 
• A Japanese pharmaceutical company in its strategic collaboration with, and Series A-1 preferred share investment in, an Israeli medical device start-up 
• Mistletoe Singapore in:
  • The Series A preferred stock financing of Enhance Experience, a Japanese extended reality technology provider
  • Its Series Seed investment in Kisan Network, a provider of supply-chain technology to Indian farmers
• Hike Limited, the developer of India’s leading messaging platform, and its Singapore parent in Hike’s initial outside financing, a US$65 million round valuing Hike at US$350 million*

M&A

• The business combination between Zapp Electric Vehicles, a UK-based, high-performance two-wheel electric vehicle company, and CIIG Capital Partners II, a special purpose acquisition company
• Warburg Pincus in establishing a US$350 million insurance platform and Oona, a digital general insurance platform in Southeast Asia, as well as in Oona’s initial acquisitions of two general insurance assets in the region
• Faria Education Group, a leading provider of international education systems and services for learning, admissions, school-to-home, online courses, and study services, in its sale to funds managed by TA Associates
• ARA Asset Management in its US$1.3 billion joint buyout, together with Sumitomo Mitsui Finance and Leasing, of Kenedix, one of Japan’s leading real estate fund managers, in a transaction that was recognized as the ALB Japan Law Awards’ Real Estate Deal of the Year
• Z Holdings in the sale and exchange of its TSE-listed subsidiary eBOOK Initiative Japan and the related restructuring of Z Holdings’ digital comics ventures with NAVER 
• PropertyGuru, Southeast Asia’s leading property technology company, in its business combination with Bridgetown 2 Holdings Limited, a special purpose acquisition company sponsored by Richard Li and Peter Thiel
• Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG) in the US$5 billion combination of its securities business, Mitsubishi UFJ Securities Co., with Morgan Stanley Japan to form one of Japan’s largest investment banks*
• SoftBank in:
  • Restructuring joint venture arrangements, with Yahoo Japan, of PayPay, a Japanese company that develops electronic payment services
  • Its £24.3 billion (US$31.4 billion) acquisition of UK-based semiconductor and software design company ARM Holdings*
  • Its US$21.6 billion acquisition of a 78% interest in US wireless operator Sprint and Sprint’s related acquisition of the approximately 50% equity of Clearwire that Sprint did not already own for approximately US$4 billion*
• Its two-step acquisition of Miami-based Brightstar, the world’s largest specialized wireless distributor* 
• Rakuten, Japan’s largest online retailer, in its China e-commerce joint venture with Baidu, the leading Chinese language search and web services company*
• Toshiba in its arrangements with SanDisk to jointly produce advanced Flash memory, involving a new US$2 billion joint venture and restructuring the parties’ prior Flash memory joint ventures, including Toshiba’s US$1.8 billion acquisition of equipment from the joint ventures* 
• Alibaba and SoftBank in various restructurings of the Alibaba, Ant Financial, and Alipay financial services businesses*

*Matter handled prior to joining Latham