We provide a variety of advisory and capital-raising solutions to corporations, financial institutions, private equity, governments and public-sector organizations around the world. Collaborating across geographies, industries and products, we provide comprehensive and innovative financing, advisory and risk solutions to our clients.
Mergers & Acquisitions

We act as a financial advisor to identify and facilitate strategic merger and acquisition, sale of business or alliance opportunities for our corporate, financial institutions and sponsor clients. Our dedicated M&A teams in Asia, EMEA and the Americas work across borders and time zones to deliver holistic support to our clients globally.
Capital Raising

In Equity Capital Markets, we originate and execute equity and equity-linked transactions, including IPOs, rights issues, accelerated bookbuilds and convertibles.
Our Debt Capital Markets team helps clients execute local and foreign-currency debt transactions with specialized teams servicing financial institutions, corporates, public sector agencies and sovereigns.
In Acquisition and Leveraged Finance, we arrange financing for leveraged buyouts and corporate acquisitions along with on-going refinancing needs using a variety of debt products.
Solutions

An integral part of Investment Banking, our Solutions teams apply a broad range of Fixed Income solutions, Equity related solutions and Insurance solutions to address the various risks faced by clients.
We are also dedicated to understanding the capital and risk management needs of insurance companies and developing cutting-edge Insurance Solutions to help them respond to these challenges. These include securitization products, structured reinsurance and derivative hedging solutions for complex insurance-specific asset and liability risks.

Consumer / Wealth
Management

Industrials

Healthcare

Natural Resources
& Power

Telco / Media /
Technology

Financial Institutions

Real Estate / Gaming /
Lodging / Leisure


Financial Sponsors
M&A
Acquisition of Britvic (UK) by Carlsberg UK Holdings (UK) of Carlsberg (Denmark)
£4.0bn
August 2024
ECM
Tokyo Metro
Global Initial Public Offering
JPY348.6bn
October 2024
Acquisition & Leveraged Finance
LBO financing related to the acquisition of Trader (Canada) by AutoScout24 (Germany), a portfolio of Hellman & Friedman (US)
€2.5bn
October 2024
Acquisition & Leveraged Finance
LBO financing related to the acquisition of Therakos (US) by CVC Capital Partners (US)
$670m
October 2024
ECM
Kansai Electric Power
Follow-on Offering
JPY397.2bn
November 2024
M&A
Sale of VSB Group (Germany) from Partners Group (Switzerland) to TotalEnergies (France)
€1.6bn
December 2024
M&A
Heiwa’s acquisition of Accordia Golf of PJC Investments from Fortress Investment Group (US)
JPY510bn
December 2024
Equity Advisory
Elyse Energy (France)
Equity Private Placement
€120m
December 2024
ECM
Kioxia Holdings
Global Initial Public Offering
JPY120.4bn
December 2024
DCM
The Dai-ichi Life Insurance
USD Denominated Subordinated Bond
$2.0bn
January 2025
M&A
Mitsui OSK Lines’ agreement with Ardian (France), APG (Netherlands) and PGGM (Netherlands) to acquire LBC Tank Terminals (Netherlands)
€1.6bn
March 2025
ECM
Japan Post Bank
Global Follow-on Offering
JPY592bn
March 2025
ECM
KKR (US)
Mandatory Convertible
Preferred Stock
$2.6bn
March 2025
Acquisition & Leveraged Finance
Applied Systems (US)
Refinancing
$2.4bn / $3.0bn
July 2024 / January 2025

House of the Year
LSEG
DEALWATCH AWARDS 2024
Equity House of the Year

Bank of the Year 2024 Japan
The Banker
Bank of the Year Awards 2024

Most Impressive FIG House
In Non-Core Currencies
GlobalCapital
Global Capital Bond Awards 2024
Financial Advisor |
Deal Value ($m) |
Share (%) |
# Deals |
|
1 |
Morgan Stanley |
115,040 |
50.2 |
78 |
2 |
Nomura |
97,395 |
42.5 |
115 |
3 |
Goldman Sachs & Co |
80,884 |
35.3 |
23 |
4 |
JP Morgan |
33,690 |
14.7 |
16 |
5 |
Sumitomo Mitsui Finl Grp Inc |
25,487 |
11.1 |
123 |
Source: LSEG (2024/1/1 - 2024/12/31)
Bookrunner |
Deal Value ($m) |
Share (%) |
# Issues |
|
1 |
Nomura |
11,097 |
28.0 |
55 |
2 |
Sumitomo Mitsui Finl Grp Inc |
5,897 |
14.9 |
60 |
3 |
Mizuho Financial Group |
5,049 |
12.8 |
39 |
4 |
Morgan Stanley |
4,690 |
11.9 |
30 |
5 |
Daiwa Securities Group Inc |
4,271 |
10.8 |
45 |
Source: LSEG (2024/4/1 - 2025/3/31)
Bookrunner |
Deal Value ($m) |
Share (%) |
# Issues |
|
1 |
Nomura |
1,842 |
20.8 |
15 |
2 |
Morgan Stanley |
1,727 |
19.5 |
11 |
3 |
Mizuho Financial Group |
1,439 |
16.3 |
16 |
4 |
Daiwa Securities Group Inc |
1,151 |
13.0 |
16 |
5 |
Sumitomo Mitsui Finl Grp Inc |
904 |
10.2 |
25 |
Source: LSEG (2024/4/1 - 2025/3/31)