Nishimura & Asahi has advised Japanese financial services corporation Orix on its 300-billion-yen ($2.1 billion) acquisition of cosmetics company DHC.
This will is said to be Orix's most expensive acquisition to date. Nikkei Asia reported that the company has stepped up its acquisitions of undervalued companies in recent years.
The Nishimura & Asahi team was led by partners Tatsuya Nakayama, Yasuo Tsukitome and Tetsushi Konda.
Magic Circle law firm Clifford Chance and DFDL have advised a consortium of investors on the $550 million sale of Cambodian microfinance institution Amret to Taiwan's Bank SinoPac, which was represented by Baker McKenzie Taiwan and local firm HBS Law.
Global law firm A&O Shearman has advised Malaysian real estate firm Sime Darby Property (SDP) on a $1.2 billion agreement to develop and lease a data centre campus in Malaysia with Google-backed Pearl Computing Malaysia.
Clifford Chance and Rahmat Lim & Partners have represented data centre developer Yondr Group in securing over $900 million in project financing for its hyperscale data centre in Johor, Malaysia. Milbank advised the finance partie