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1 week 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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1 month 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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Feb 20, 2025 | 
ca.finance.yahoo.com | Hideki Suzuki |Takako Taniguchi |Lisa Du
(Bloomberg) -- KKR & Co. has secured enough shares of Fuji Soft Inc. in a tender offer to take the company private, formally ending a months-long bidding war against Bain Capital. • Sorry, Kids: Disney’s New York Headquarters Is for Grown-UpsCompletion of the two-stage offer will give KKR a 57.92% stake in the Japanese software company, the New York-based firm said in a statement on Thursday.
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Feb 19, 2025 | 
bloomberg.com | Hideki Suzuki |Takako Taniguchi |Lisa Du
KKR & Co. has secured enough shares of Fuji Soft Inc. in a tender offer to take the company private, according to people familiar with the matter, formally ending a months-long bidding war against Bain Capital. KKR is set to release the results later Thursday, the people said, asking not to be identified ahead of the announcement. That would give the New York-based firm control of the Japanese software company after it raised its offer to ¥9,850 per share earlier this month.
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Feb 18, 2025 | 
bloomberg.com | Takako Taniguchi
3D Investment Partners has criticized Sapporo Holdings Ltd. over its execution of overseas acquisitions, expressing concerns about the risk that the Japanese brewer may continue to “misallocate capital” leading to further “destruction of corporate value.”The Singapore-based investment fund censured the management over “impairment losses on all of its overseas alcoholic beverage acquisitions” and questioned the responsibility of the board of directors, in a letter seen by Bloomberg.
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Feb 18, 2025 | 
bloomberg.com | Takako Taniguchi
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Oct 28, 2024 | 
bloomberg.com | Takako Taniguchi
Brookfield Wealth Solutions, has entered the reinsurance business in Japan and has hired Tomohide Yokooka, formerly of Barclays Plc, as managing director and country head, according to people familiar with the matter. Brookfield Wealth, which was spun out from North American asset management company Brookfield Corporation., provides capital-based solutions to insurance and re-insurance companies and has over $110 billion in insurance assets globally.
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Oct 18, 2024 | 
bloomberg.com | Takako Taniguchi |Hideki Suzuki
Fuji Soft Inc. is standing by KKR & Co.’s tender for its shares despite receiving a higher bid from Bain Capital that’s won the support of the Japanese software developer’s founder. The Yokohama-based company plans to recommend its shareholders accept the first phase of KKR’s tender offer through Monday, people familiar with the matter said, confirming an earlier Nikkei report.
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Oct 3, 2024 | 
bloomberg.com | Koh Yoshida |Takako Taniguchi
Seven & i Holdings Co. has approached potential buyers for its Ito-Yokado stores and supermarkets as it seeks to restructure in the face of a takeover approach from Canada’s Alimentation Couche-Tard Inc., people with knowledge of the matter said. The Japanese retailer has approached private equity funds and other entities about the sale of multiple businesses under its supermarket empire, said the people, who asked not to be identified because the discussions aren’t public.
