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Ropes & Gray and Mori Hamada & Matsumoto are advising Bain Capital on its offer to buy all outstanding shares of Macromill Inc, a Japanese online market research company, for 51.4 billion yen ($501 million).

Tokyo-based partner Tsuyoshi Imai and counsel Kaori Fukazawa are leading the Ropes & Gray team on the transaction.

TMI Associates is representing Macromill, while Anderson Mori & Tomotsune and Nagashima Ohno & Tsunematsu are advising the lenders. Nishimura & Asahi is the legal counsel for a selling shareholder.

Bain plans to purchase up to 65.4 million shares of Macromill at 786 yen per share, the Tokyo-based company said in a statement through the Tokyo Stock Exchange.

Macromill will be delisted from the Tokyo Stock Exchange after the completion of the transaction, the company said in the statement.

Kanishk Verghese is North Asia journalist at ALB. Follow us on Twitter: @ALB_Magazine.

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