Hajime Kanagawa is a partner in the Corporate practice of Paul Hastings and is based in the firm’s Tokyo office. His practice focuses on representing Japanese and multinational clients in a broad range of corporate and financial matters, including mergers and acquisitions, acquisition finance transactions, and corporate finance transactions.

In the area of mergers and acquisitions, Mr. Kanagawa has represented a number of private and publicly held companies, as well as private equity investors in connection with their various forms of transactions, such as mergers, demergers, statutory share exchanges, business transfers, TOBs, joint ventures, PIPEs, and strategic capital alliances; where acquisition finance or issuance of new capital is required, he provides advice not only on acquisition matters but also on financing matters as a one-stop advisor. He has represented both acquirers and targets in insolvency situations such as private workouts and corporate restructurings, and has also been involved in hostile takeover situations, all of which would generally require difficult negotiation. He has recently focused on Japanese companies’ acquisition of U.S. public and private companies as well as Japanese companies’ listing in Hong Kong Stock Exchange and has written articles and made speeches on these topics.