Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP is advising Chuo Mitsui Trust Holdings, Inc. (CMTH), Japan’s sixth-largest banking group by assets, in connection with its planned $15.8 billion management integration with Sumitomo Trust and Banking Co., Ltd. (STB), in a transaction that will create, on April 1, 2011, Japan’s fifth-largest banking group. Davis Polk is providing bank regulatory advice and advised CMTH on the registration, effective November 8, 2010, of the transaction on Form F-4 with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. CMTH becomes the second SEC-registered Japanese bank to report using IFRS.
The Davis Polk corporate team includes partner Theodore A. Paradise, counsel Michael T. Dunn and associates Christopher J. Kodama, Hiroshi Sugiyama, Daniel E. Newman, Shinichi Yuhara and Stephen Lindholm. The tax team includes partner John D. Paton and associate Alon Gurfinkel. Partner Arthur S. Long and associates Cristina V. Regojo and Michael Steinberg are providing bank regulatory advice. Counsel Marcie A. Goldstein is providing FINRA advice, counsel Stephen M. Pepper is providing antitrust advice and associate Catherine L. Martin is providing Investment Company Act advice. Nozomi Kameyama, Yuko Ema and Emma Ko are the legal assistants on the transaction. Members of the Davis Polk team are based in the Tokyo, New York and London offices.
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