Takashi Hirayama

Specialty

M&A Advisory
Technology, Communications, Entertainment and media

Summary of expertise

Takashi Hirayama has been covering TMT (telecommunications, media and technology) sector for long years, and has been involved in numerous large-scale M&A and financing projects.

Before joining PwC Advisory LLC in September 2023, he was a co-head of the Technology, Media and Telecom Group at J.P. Morgan Securities. Prior to his career at J.P. Morgan Securities, he was a Managing Director with Nomura Securities and was responsible for the projects with leading companies in the telecommunications, media, technology and industrial sector.
He was seconded to Singapore from 2014to 2016.

Recent Transactions

• Advised on the delisting of a major electronic manufacturer
• Advised a major domestic information service provider on the delisting of its equity method company that provides recruitment-related services in China
• A global private equity fund’s acquisition of a Japanese metal company owned by a major electronic manufacturer
• Sale of a network equipment manufacturer owned by a major electronic manufacturer to a private equity fund
• Advised a major semiconductor manufacturing equipment company owned by a major electronic manufacturer on tender offer for its shares by a global private equity fund
• Advised a general finance company on the sale of its shares owned by a major electronic manufacturer to a mega bank group
• Acquisition of an overseas brandy business owned by a major domestic beverage company by the world's largest brandy maker in the Philippines
• Sale of a semiconductor package base company owned by a major domestic printing company to a major electronic parts company
• Sale of a digital content distributor owned by a major domestic printing company to an e-book distributor
• Integration of the LCD colour filter business of the factory in Sakai, Osaka, of a major domestic electronics manufacturer by a major domestic printing company
• A major domestic system integrator’s acquisition of the largest independent system integrator together with a major trading house
• Advised a major domestic planning company on MBO by its founder
• Capital and business alliance by a major domestic machine tool manufacturer with the world's largest machine tool manufacturer