Yohei Nakagawa

Mr. Nakagawa’s experience includes advising:

M&A

• Shoei Chemical, a Japan-based advanced materials manufacturer, on the acquisition of US-based Nanosys’ quantum dot (QD) business*
• The News Lens Co., a leading Asian digital media company, on its:
  • Merger with Japan-based Mediagene*
  • Proposed de-SPAC with Blue Ocean Acquisition Corporation and listing on NASDAQ*
• onsemi on the sale of its Niigata semiconductor fabrication facility to JS Foundry K.K.*
• Mitsui Chemicals on the sale of Respire Medical, an oral appliances manufacturer*
• NTT in the sale of White Hat Security, a provider of application security SaaS, to Synopsys*
• SoftBank Group and SoftBank Vision Fund on UK-headquartered multinational semiconductor and software design company Arm Limited’s proposed US$65 billion sale to NVIDIA*
• Oji Paper on the sale of Oji Interpack, a global manufacturer of comprehensive packaging solutions, to Intertech Holdings*
• SoftBank on the sale of Boston Dynamics, an American engineering and robotics design company, to Hyundai*
• Mitsubishi Heavy Industries on the US$550 million carve-out acquisition of Bombardier's regional jet program*
• Asahi Kasei Corporation on the approximately US$1 billion acquisition of Sage Automotive Interiors, a global supplier of technical textiles for the automotive industry, from Clearlake Capital Group*
• Tayca Corporation, a TSE-listed industrial chemical products producer, on the acquisition of TRS Technologies, a privately held US piezoelectric and dielectric materials technology producer*
• Toshiba Corporation on the US$18 billion sale of wholly owned subsidiary Toshiba Memory Corporation to a consortium led by Bain Capital*

Venture Capital

• Tokio Marine & Nichido Fire Insurance on its various outbound strategic investments*
• LeapFrog Investments on its preferred stock investment in the Series B financing round of bolttech, an international insurtech company*
• JERA as lead investor on its preferred stock investment in the Series C financing round of Intertrust, a Silicon Valley-based trusted distributed computing pioneer*

*Matter handled prior to joining Latham