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Lebrun, Kenneth

Shearman & Sterling LLP

klebrun@shearman.com | www.shearman.com

Winner –M&A, Japan

Ken Lebrun is a partner in Shearman & Sterling’s Tokyo office and has split his years with the firm between the Tokyo and New York offices. A fluent Japanese speaker, he focuses his practice primarily on public and private cross-border mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, strategic alliances and private equity transactions. He also advises public companies on corporate governance and takeover defence issues, and investment banks and securities companies on fairness opinions and other financial advisory matters. Highlights of his recent experience include advising Shiseido Company Limited on its $1.7 billion tender offer for Bare Escentuals, Inc; Mizuho Corporate Bank, Ltd in its investment in and strategic alliance with Evercore Partners Inc; Hitachi, Ltd in its $233 million sale of Hitachi Semiconductor Singapore Pte Ltd to Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing Ltd; and Bank of America Merrill Lynch as financial adviser to Nipponkoa Insurance Co Ltd in its $4.7 billion business combination with Sompo Japan Insurance Inc. He is recognized as a leading M&A lawyer in Japan by the

most recent editions of Chambers Asia, Chambers Global and the IFLR 1000. He has written extensively for many leading publications and has co-authored the “Mergers and Acquisitions: United States” chapter in Practical Law Company’s annually

published Cross-Border Mergers and Acquisitions Handbook

since 2004. He is also vice chair of the American Chamber Of Commerce in Japan’s Foreign Direct Investment Committee.

Shearman & Sterling LLP

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T +81 3 5251 0203 F +81 3 3597 0835

What clients said

“Nobody can beat him in this market in the M&A area.”

“He has more experience representing major cross-border clients and their financial advisers than anyone else in Japan.”

“Ken Lebrun has provided us with outstanding legal service for the biggest M&A project in our corporate history, as well as the biggest foreign investment by a Japanese cosmetics manufacturer.”

“His knowledge of market practices on a global level is excellent.”

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