Katsu Saikawa

Clients look to senior associate Katsu Saikawa for counsel on all facets of corporate M&A deals, including mergers and acquisitions, private equity and venture capital investments, carve-outs, joint ventures, and strategic alliances. 

Katsu represents private equity sponsors, venture capital firms, institutional investors, financial institutions, industrial conglomerates, and other public and private strategic operating companies across a range of industries, including mining, radiopharmaceutical, energy, chemical, technology, laser, and fintech.

Represented:

• A Japanese Forbes Global 2000 mining corporation listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE) on its US$1.1 billion sale of its stake in Chilean copper mine to an Australian mining company listed on the Australian Stock Exchange.
• A TSE listed multinational conglomerate on its JPY 30.5 billion sale of its radiopharmaceutical business to a TSE listed biopharmaceutical corporation.
• A Japanese Forbes Global 2000 electric utility corporation listed on the TSE on its acquisition of a stake in the first UK-Germany power link project, a privately financed project with an investment volume of approximately €2.8 billion.
• A Japan-based private equity sponsor on its sale of a 100% stake in its portfolio chemical company to a Dutch listed chemical company, involving repayment of the leveraged buyout loan.

• University of Sydney, LLM
• University of Technology, Sydney, LLB
• University of Technology, Sydney, BA

• New York
• Japan (Gaikokuho Jimu Bengoshi)
• New South Wales Australia

• English
• Japanese

• Member, New York State Bar Association
• Member, Law Society of New South Wales