
Profile
Koji Ishikawa is the Managing Shareholder of the Tokyo office and focuses his practice on mergers and acquisitions and capital market matters. He is experienced in handling cross-border transactions and advising clients in the technology sector.
Concentrations
- Mergers & acquisitions
- Capital markets
- Gaming regulations
Capabilities
Experience
- Represented Black Dragon Capital in connection with its acquisition of Grass Valley, a leading technology supplier of advanced broadcast and media solutions, with operations in over 20 different jurisdictions worldwide.
- Represented an international brewer in the sale of its beer brands in Eastern Europe to a Japanese brewer (USD 7.8 billion).
- Represented a Japanese industrial gas manufacture in the acquisition of industrial gas business from a European industrial gas manufacture (EUR 5 billion).
- Represented a Japanese steak restaurant chain in Nasdaq listing, which is the first US listing by Japanese restaurant business.
- Represented provider of eDiscovery and digital forensic services in Nasdaq listing, which is the first NASDAQ listing for more than 13 years by a Japanese issuer.°
- Represented Japan’s 2nd largest pachinko hall operator in Hong Kong listing, which is the very first Hong Kong initial public offering by a Japanese issuer.°
°The above representations were handled by Mr. Ishikawa prior to his joining GT Tokyo Horitsu Jimusho.
Recognition & Leadership
- Listed, IFLR1000, Japan, "Notable Practitioner," 2019-2023
- Capital Markets: Debt, 2020-2023
- Capital Markets: Equity, 2020-2023
- M&A, 2020-2023
- Capital Markets, 2019
- Listed, Chambers Global Guide, Capital Markets, 2014-2019
- Listed, The Legal 500 Asia-Pacific Guide, Capital Markets and Construction, Projects and Energy, 2014
- Team Member, "Infrastructure Projects Team of the Year," The Lawyer Awards, 2013
- Member, Daiichi Tokyo Bar Association
Credentials
Education
- Visiting Scholar, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, William S. Boyd School of Law, 2017
- Visiting Scholar, Peking University Law School, 2005
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LL.M., New York University School of Law
- Graduate Editor, NYU Journal of International Law & Politics
- LL.B., Waseda University, 1993
Admissions
- Japan
Languages
- Japanese
- Chinese (Mandarin)
- English