Takako Taniguchi

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Blackstone Buys Japan Drug Trial Firm, Adding to PE Health Deals

1 month ago | 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.
KKR Wins Control of $4.4 Billion Fuji Soft After Bain Clash

2 months ago | 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.
KKR Wins Control of $4.4 Billion Fuji Soft After Clash With Bain

2 months ago | 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.
Activist Fund Criticizes Sapporo After ‘Acquisition Failures’

2 months ago | 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.
Singapore Activist Investor 3D Questions Sapporo Acquisitions

2 months ago | bloomberg.com | Takako Taniguchi

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Brookfield Wealth (BNT CN) Enters Japan Reinsurance Market, Hires Head

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.
Fuji Soft (9749 JP) Sticks With KKR Despite Higher Takeover Offer From Bain

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.
7-Eleven's Japan Owner Approaches Buyers for Retail, Supermarkets Units

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.
Activist Fund Oasis Targets Japanese Museum With Picasso, Rothko

Oct 3, 2024 | bloomberg.com | Sarah Hilton |Takako Taniguchi

For years, a castle-like museum outside Tokyo was a secret spot for Japanese art lovers prepared to make a nearly two-hour trip from the capital to see its collection of 20th-century masterpieces, including a Monet, a Picasso and several Rothkos, scattered throughout the grounds. Now the owner of Kawamura Memorial DIC Museum of Art, a publicly listed chemicals maker struggling with financial losses, is considering selling its artwork or even shutting down permanently amid pressure from investors.
KKR Said to Speed Up Tender Offer for Fuji Soft to Fend Off Bain

Sep 4, 2024 | finance.yahoo.com | Hideki Suzuki |Takako Taniguchi

(Bloomberg) -- KKR & Co. is moving up the start of its tender offer for Fuji Soft Inc. to Sept. 5, seeking to preempt a competing bid from private equity rival Bain Capital.