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Ari Nishitani
Counsel

Tel: +81-3-3597-6312
Fax: +81-3-3597-8120
anishitani@paulweiss.com

+81-3-3597-6312
Tokyo

Fukoku Seimei Building 2F, 2-2, Uchisaiwaicho 2-chome
Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 100-0011, Japan
Fax: +81-3-3597-8120

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Ari Nishitani is counsel in the Corporate Department and a member of the firm’s Mergers & Acquisitions Group. She regularly advises in the negotiation and structuring of mergers and acquisitions, dispositions and joint ventures on behalf of a diverse range of clients, including public and private companies and other entities.

Ari is a native speaker of Japanese. She is registered as a gaikokuhō jimu bengoshi in Japan.

EXPERIENCE

Ari’s representations include advising:

  • Adjust GmbH’s sale to AppLovin Corporation
  • Aioi Nissay Dowa Insurance (ADI)’s acquisition of Royal State Financial Corporation and ADI’s concurrent acquisition of the minority interests of DTRIC Insurance Company
  • Citigroup’s acquisition of Nikko Cordial Corporation
  • Citigroup’s sale of the retail brokerage business of Nikko Cordial to Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation
  • Citigroup’s sale of its retail banking business in Japan to Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation
  • Citigroup’s sale of Citi Cards Japan to Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Bank, Limited
  • Citigroup’s sale of a $1.7 billion private equity portfolio to Axa Private Equity
  • Dainippon Sumitomo Pharma’s acquisition of Sepracor
  • A committee of independent directors of Garrett Motion Inc. in the company’s transactions to transform its capital structure, including the repurchase of a total of $570 million of its Series A preferred stock from Centerbridge Partners and funds managed by Oaktree Capital Management and the conversion all outstanding Series A preferred stock into a single class of common stock
  • An ad hoc committee of unsecured noteholders in the prearranged chapter 11 cases of Gulfport Energy, an independent, natural gas-weighted exploration and production company and one of the largest producers of natural gas in the contiguous United States
  • InnovaCare Health’s sale to a consortium of investors led by Summit Partners
  • Mitsubishi Chemical America’s acquisition of Gelest from New Mountain Capital
  • Oaktree Capital Management, alongside its portfolio company, Azorra Aviation, in its acquisition and recapitalization of certain aircraft owning silos of Nordic Aviation Capital pursuant to a prearranged chapter 11 plan process
  • SVF Investment Corp. 3, a special purpose acquisition company sponsored by an affiliate of SoftBank Investment Advisers, in its merger with Symbotic to form a publicly traded company with a pro-forma equity value of $5.5 billion

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