Mangyo Kinoshita
Partner
Mangyo Kinoshita is a partner in O'Melveny's Tokyo office and a member of the Transactions Department. He advises on a wide range of general corporate matters, focusing on cross-border mergers and acquisitions, including consultation on unsolicited and friendly acquisitions, administrative filings and litigation procedures in Japan and overseas deriving from such transactions, other financial transactions, and labor law issues.
Mangyo is admitted to practice in Japan and California and is knowledgeable in SEC and other US governmental procedures as well as such laws and procedures in Japan. He resided in the Firm's New York office from 2005 - 2006 where he represented US and Japanese clients in cross-border M&A and finance transactions and securities offerings. He is also actively involved in pro bono matters.
Mangyo is recommended on Corporate and M&A in the 2011 and 2012 editions of
The Legal 500 Asia Pacific. He is also recognized in the 2012 edition of
Asialaw Profiles as an "up-and-coming practitioner.
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Illustrative Professional Experience
- Represented Promise Co., Ltd. in the acquisition of Sanyo Shinpan through a tender offer bid
- Represented eMobile Ltd., a subsidiary of eAccess, Limited, in an equity financing transaction that was awarded Project Finance International's “Asian Telecom Deal of the Year” in 2006.
- Represented an overseas government fund's investment in a leading Japanese restructuring fund
- Represented a leading Japanese electronic equipment manufacturer in the acquisition of a French company's Japanese subsidiary through corporate spin-off
- Represented an apparel company in the sale of its key business to a leading Japanese fund
- Represented the buyer in sales of a leading Japanese online department store
Professional Activities
Member, Dai-ichi Tokyo Bar Association; California Bar Association
Languages, Japanese; English
Co-Author, "Triggered Poison Pill and Delaware court's decision - Selectica, Inc. v. Versata Enterprises, Inc. -"
Mergers & Acquisitions Research Report, August 2010; "Keys to Successful M&A Learned from Cancelled Deals"
the Japanese M&A Review, July 2010; "Recent US M&A: An analysis of 2008 US M&A Transactions"the Japanese M&A Review, May and July 2009; "Japan's déjà vu" The Deal Magazine, February 2009; "
Required Measures for the Protection under the Business Judgment Rule in Japan -A Case Study
on Hokkaido Takushoku Bank Case"
The Business Law Journal, August 2008; "Business Issues regarding Japanese Poison Pills"
Shoji Homu, July 2006; "Legal Restrictions on Attorney Referral Services in Japan: An International Comparative Legal Analysis"
Journal of the Japanese Institute of International Business Law (Kokusai Shoji Homu), March 2006