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Masataka Yoshida

Managing Director at RECOF

After serving 8 years for one of the major Japanese city banks at its M&A division in Tokyo and London (more than 4 years), Yoshida joined RECOF from the beginning of the year 1995. He has a total of more than 30 years' experience of M&A origination and advisory services with over 50 transactions executed through his origination during his tenure at RECOF. In addition to various domestic transactions, he has been involved in many of the blue-chip American and European enterprises’ entry, expansion and exit in relation to the Japan market.

His main focus is extended to automotive industry including parts, F&B, paper manufacturing and its related sectors, logistics, auto related services, media/marketing, travel and cross border business (targeting Southeast –Asian countries, especially Vietnam).

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Sam originated and advised more than 60 completed transactions during his tenure of 20 years at RECOF as one of RECOF’s “from early-stage” core members. He has been engaged in both domestic and cross-border transactions in various industries including business services, financial services, consumer products, housing/building material, apparel, media, and automotive. Selected Transactions in cross-border deals are as follows. Advised on the “buy-side” a Japanese house-builder investing into a major Vietnamese construction company’s group company Advised on the “buy-side” a Japanese car dealer acquiring a majority stake of a South Vietnam car dealer company Advised on the “buy-side” a Japanese non-bank company investing into a Vietnamese bank’s consumer finance company Advised on the “buy-side” a Japanese leasing company forming s strategic alliance with one of Vietnamese bank’s subsidiary Advised on the “sell-side” for a Japanese IT product manufacturer to sell the majority stake to an Italian Milan listed IT product manufacturer Advised on the “sell-side” a French Paris listed IT service group to sell its Japanese subsidiary Consulting to Paris listed water business service group to acquire Japanese water service companies (total: 4 transactions) Consulting to the world’s largest US NYSE listed advertising and communications group to acquire Japanese companies: (total: 5 transactions)

Masataka Yoshida
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myoshida@reachma.com

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Qualmark Corporation
Espec Corp.
U.S. based manufacturer of reliability test equipment
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Advisor to the buyer :
Meridian Capital LLC & RECOF
Ceyoniq Group
Kyocera Group
Ceyoniq Group, German provider of ECM solutions, was sold to the Kyocera Document Solutions Inc.
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Advisor to the seller :
RECOF
KTS Kunststofftechnik Schmidt GmbH & Co. KG
Nifco Inc.
Sale of a manufacturer of kinematic plastic trim parts for the automotive industry
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Advisor to the seller :
RECOF
Japanese staff service company acquired a staff service subsidiary of a Japanese trading company
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Advisor to the buyer :
RECOF

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