Ari Nishitani is a partner in the Corporate Department and a member of the firm’s Mergers & Acquisitions Group. She regularly advises in the negotiation and structuring of mergers and acquisitions, dispositions and joint ventures on behalf of a diverse range of clients, including public and private companies and other entities.
Ari is a native speaker of Japanese. She is registered as a gaikokuhō jimu bengoshi in Japan.
Ari’s representations include advising:
- Adjust GmbH’s sale to AppLovin Corporation
- Aioi Nissay Dowa Insurance (ADI)’s acquisition of Royal State Financial Corporation and ADI’s concurrent acquisition of the minority interests of DTRIC Insurance Company
- Citigroup’s acquisition of Nikko Cordial Corporation
- Citigroup’s sale of the retail brokerage business of Nikko Cordial to Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation
- Citigroup’s sale of its retail banking business in Japan to Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation
- Citigroup’s sale of Citi Cards Japan to Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Bank, Limited
- Citigroup’s sale of a $1.7 billion private equity portfolio to Axa Private Equity
- Dainippon Sumitomo Pharma’s acquisition of Sepracor
- A committee of independent directors of Garrett Motion Inc. in the company’s transactions to transform its capital structure, including the repurchase of a total of $570 million of its Series A preferred stock from Centerbridge Partners and funds managed by Oaktree Capital Management and the conversion all outstanding Series A preferred stock into a single class of common stock
- An ad hoc committee of unsecured noteholders in the prearranged chapter 11 cases of Gulfport Energy, an independent, natural gas-weighted exploration and production company and one of the largest producers of natural gas in the contiguous United States
- InnovaCare Health’s sale to a consortium of investors led by Summit Partners
- Mitsubishi Chemical America’s acquisition of Gelest from New Mountain Capital
- Oaktree Capital Management, alongside its portfolio company, Azorra Aviation, in its acquisition and recapitalization of certain aircraft owning silos of Nordic Aviation Capital pursuant to a prearranged chapter 11 plan process
- SVF Investment Corp. 3, a special purpose acquisition company sponsored by an affiliate of SoftBank Investment Advisers, in its merger with Symbotic to form a publicly traded company with a pro-forma equity value of $5.5 billion
