Boston-headquartered Ropes & Gray and Japanese firm Mori Hamada & Matsumoto have advised private equity house Bain Capital, also based in Boston, on its buyout of a Japanese restaurant chain operator. Bain will pay $2.1 billion for Skylark Co. Ltd., which runs the Gusto and Jonathan’s restaurant chains in Japan, among others. Ropes & Gray partners Tsuyoshi Imai in Tokyo and Michael Nicklin in Hong Kong were international counsel to Bain, while Mori Hamada advised on Japanese law. Nomura Holdings, Inc., Skylark’s main shareholder, did not respond to a request for details of its legal advisors. [Read full story]
Maples and Calder has acted for Cayman-based Nomura subsidiary Global Funds Trust Co. on the launch of a mutual investment fund in Japan. The fund will allow Japanese investors to access managed accounts–investment platforms which employ hedge fund managers as advisors to reduce the risk to investors. The fund has so far attracted investment of around $103 million. Hong Kong partner Spencer Privett led Maples’ team, with Japanese counsel from Anderson Mori & Tomotsune.
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