
Takako Taniguchi
Reporter at Bloomberg News
Articles
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2 weeks ago |
bloomberg.com | Ryo Horiuchi |Takako Taniguchi
Yebisu Garden Place(Bloomberg) -- Bain Capital, KKR & Co. and Lone Star are among investment firms that have advanced to the second round of bidding for the real estate unit of Sapporo Holdings Ltd., according to people familiar with the matter. Bidding will end in August and the sale price is expected to exceed ¥400 billion ($2.8 billion), said the people, who asked not to be identified discussing non-public information. The aim is to reach an agreement by the end of this year, they said.
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2 weeks ago |
bloomberg.com | Takako Taniguchi
A hot steel slab moves along a conveyor of a plate mill at the Nippon Steel Corp. Kashima plant in Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan. (Bloomberg) -- Singapore-based 3D Investment Partners has urged other shareholders in Nippon Steel Corp. to vote against reappointing its president and vice chairman, both of whom have championed a drawn-out US takeover that threatens “irreversible” value destruction.
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1 month ago |
bloomberg.com | Takako Taniguchi |Hideki Suzuki
(Bloomberg) -- Japanese chemical manufacturer Taiyo Holdings Co. has received acquisition proposals from two companies including US investment firm KKR & Co., according to people familiar with the matter. Taiyo has received various proposals including forming capital and business alliances and going private, the Tokyo-based company said in a statement following the Bloomberg report. It has established a special committee to consider its options, though nothing has been decided, it said.
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2 months ago |
bloomberg.com | Manuel Baigorri |Lisa Du |Takako Taniguchi |Yasutaka Tamura
Logisteed was named Hitachi Transport System Ltd. before KKR completed its acquisition in early 2023. (Bloomberg) -- KKR & Co. has picked Morgan Stanley to help work on a potential initial public offering of Japanese logistics operator Logisteed Ltd. in Tokyo, according to people familiar with the matter.
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Mar 2, 2025 |
bloomberg.com | Lisa Du |Takako Taniguchi
Blackstone Inc. is buying a company that helps drugmakers run clinical trials in Japan, adding to growing interest from private equity firms in the health needs of the nation’s aging population. The world’s largest alternative asset manager said it agreed to purchase 60% of Tokyo-based CMIC Co., a contract research organization, in a deal that values the company in the hundreds of millions of dollars.
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