20 July, 2017
Skadden represented Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Daiwa Capital Markets Europe, J.P. Morgan and Nomura as underwriters in a US$5 billion offering of government-guaranteed bonds by the Japan Bank for International Cooperation in four tranches:
US$1.5 billion of 2.125% guaranteed bonds due 2020;
US$1.25 billion of 2.375% guaranteed bonds due 2022;
US$1.25 billion of 2.875% guaranteed bonds due 2027; and
US$1 billion of floating-rate guaranteed bonds due 2020.
The transaction was announced on July 12 and priced on July 13.
The Skadden team includes, in Tokyo, partner Kenji Taneda, Asia Pacific counsel Ken Kiyota and associates Yuko Ozaki, Tomoaki Kuragano and Timothy Morgan, corporate; and, in Palo Alto, partner Sean Shimamoto and associate Martin de Jong, tax.
