Hideki Akiyama

Partner

Hideki Akiyama is a partner whose practice focuses on mergers and acquisitions transactions as well as general corporate matters, such as:

• Negotiating and drafting joint venture agreements
• Strategic alliance agreements
• Distributorship agreements
• License agreements

Experience

Highlights of Mr. Akiyama's prior legal experience and representations before joining Schiff Hardin:

• Reorganization of North American operations and associated legal work of a Tokyo Stock Exchange Division 1 corporation
• General corporate advice to one of the largest trading companies in Japan
• Dissolution of a U.S. joint venture of two Tokyo Stock Exchange companies
• Business integration between two of the 10 largest Japanese trading companies
• Alliance agreement between two multinational food and beverage companies
• Proposed acquisition of a major Japanese manufacturing corporation by a leading U.S. private equity fund
• Merger of two national U.S. telephone companies
• Sale of an airline infrastructure outsourcing business unit to a multinational corporation
• Distribution agreement between a major electronics manufacturing company in the U.S. and Japanese distributor
• Automobile parts manufacturing joint venture involving two Japanese and one U.S. entity
• Sale and purchase agreement for a mid-sized New York real estate company selling its operations in Georgia (asset sale transaction)
• Japanese metal manufacturing company with its reorganization of U.S. operations including incorporation and set up of holding company for its U.S. operations
• Prospective acquisition (stock sale transaction) of largest independent wholesale distributor in New York City by international food company
• U.S. subsidiary of a Japanese petrochemicals company. in negotiating and drafting Separation and Release Agreement in conjunction with the termination of its former President
• Sale of multiple golf courses in Georgia-owned by U.S. subsidiary of Japanese company in conjunction with its bankruptcy (asset sale transaction)
• Distribution agreement between U.S. textile machinery manufacturer and Japanese trading company distributor
• Negotiated an $8 million letter of credit from a major Japanese financial institution for U.S. subsidiary of Japanese manufacturing company
• Buy-out of leased manufacturing facility from financing bank for U.S. subsidiary of Japanese company

Previous Experience

Earlier in his career, Mr. Akiyama worked for Nomura Securities Ltd. in Japan.

Education