Paris Miki Holdings Inc. - Acquisition of Asset Management Business of Lunettes Inc.
Nishimura & Asahi advised Paris Miki Holdings Inc. [TSE: 7455], an eyewear retailer, on its acquisition of the asset management business of Lunettes Inc., an investment and healthcare company, through an absorption-type split.
The Nishimura & Asahi team advising Paris Miki was led by partners Akihiro Shimoda and Yoshito Wakabayashi.
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Akihiro has deep knowledge and extensive experience in a wide range of financial transactions and financial regulations, especially on a variety of investment funds, venture finance and compliance-related matters for financial institutions, including support for market entry and other innovative challenges such as FinTech business.
His transaction practice covers asset management business (including venture funds, PE funds, infrastructure funds and hedge funds), venture finance, project finance, real estate finance, and a various types of financial transactions.
Also, in the financial regulatory area, with his experience from a secondment to the Japanese Financial Service Agency where he was engaged mainly in assisting asset managers and FinTech businesses, he regularly provides flexible and creative solutions to traditional financial institutions such as banks, securities companies and asset managers, start-ups aiming to launch new financial business and foreign financial companies accessing the Japanese financial market.