{"id":24811,"date":"2021-01-14T10:07:40","date_gmt":"2021-01-14T10:07:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legal500.com\/events\/?page_id=24811"},"modified":"2022-01-10T12:24:09","modified_gmt":"2022-01-10T12:24:09","slug":"a-guide-to-the-ma-landscape-in-japan-market-opportunities-and-legal-trends-in-2021","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/my.legal500.com\/events\/webinars-home\/a-guide-to-the-ma-landscape-in-japan-market-opportunities-and-legal-trends-in-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"M&amp;A from a sell-side perspective"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"background: white;\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\">A trend is emerging of Japanese corporates selling some of their non-core assets. This is a change for many companies, whose M&amp;A activities have traditionally been predominantly on the buy-side. The considerations for a seller are quite different from those of a buyer and this webinar, brought to you by<\/span><i><span style=\"color: #333333;\"> The Legal 500 <\/span><\/i><span style=\"color: #333333;\">and <\/span><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><a title=\"https:\/\/www.herbertsmithfreehills.com\/\" href=\"https:\/\/www.herbertsmithfreehills.com\/\">Herbert Smith Freehills,<\/a>\u00a0 aims to provide GCs and business heads with information on how to approach the sale of a business.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white;\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\">In this webinar, our panellists discussed some of the reasons why Japanese corporates are increasingly choosing to conduct sell-side M&amp;A and work through some of the options for how such sales can be structured. \u00a0They also covered how to approach due diligence and transaction documents from a seller\u2019s perspective and gave an insight into recent deal term trends for private M&amp;A.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2>Speakers<\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-25333\" style=\"font-size: 1rem;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.legal500.com\/events\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/02\/gavin-davies-crop.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/my.legal500.com\/events\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/02\/gavin-davies-crop.jpg 150w, https:\/\/my.legal500.com\/events\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/02\/gavin-davies-crop-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/>\u00a0 \u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-25335\" style=\"font-size: 1rem;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.legal500.com\/events\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/02\/Jason-sung-crop.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/my.legal500.com\/events\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/02\/Jason-sung-crop.jpg 150w, https:\/\/my.legal500.com\/events\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/02\/Jason-sung-crop-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/>\u00a0 \u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-25331\" style=\"font-size: 1rem;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.legal500.com\/events\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/02\/elaine-wong-crop.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/my.legal500.com\/events\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/02\/elaine-wong-crop.jpg 150w, https:\/\/my.legal500.com\/events\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/02\/elaine-wong-crop-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"> \u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">\u00a0<\/span><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-25337\" style=\"font-size: 1rem;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.legal500.com\/events\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/02\/joseph-fisher-crop.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/my.legal500.com\/events\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/02\/joseph-fisher-crop.jpg 150w, https:\/\/my.legal500.com\/events\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/02\/joseph-fisher-crop-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.herbertsmithfreehills.com\/our-people\/gavin-davies\">Gavin Davies<\/a>, global head of M&amp;A, Herbert Smith Freehills<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.herbertsmithfreehills.com\/our-people\/jason-sung\">Jason Sung<\/a>, Asia head of M&amp;A, Herbert Smith Freehills<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.herbertsmithfreehills.com\/our-people\/elaine-wong\">Elaine Wong<\/a>, disputes partner, Singapore, Herbert Smith Freehills<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.herbertsmithfreehills.com\/our-people\/joseph-fisher\">Joe Fisher<\/a>, M&amp;A of counsel, Tokyo, Herbert Smith Freehills<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A trend is emerging of Japanese corporates selling some of their non-core assets. This is a change for many companies, whose M&amp;A activities have traditionally been predominantly on the buy-side. The considerations for a seller are quite different from those of a buyer and this webinar, brought to you by The Legal 500 and Herbert &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/my.legal500.com\/events\/webinars-home\/a-guide-to-the-ma-landscape-in-japan-market-opportunities-and-legal-trends-in-2021\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;M&amp;A from a sell-side perspective&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":25435,"parent":20789,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-24811","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.legal500.com\/events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/24811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.legal500.com\/events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.legal500.com\/events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.legal500.com\/events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.legal500.com\/events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24811"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/my.legal500.com\/events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/24811\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31692,"href":"https:\/\/my.legal500.com\/events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/24811\/revisions\/31692"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.legal500.com\/events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/20789"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.legal500.com\/events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.legal500.com\/events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}