Jonathan G. Stradling

A Partner in the Firm’s Mergers and Acquisitions Practice, Jonathan Stradling regularly represents private equity sponsors and public and private companies in mergers, acquisitions, dispositions, leveraged buyouts, joint ventures, carve-outs,  recapitalizations and other corporate transactions across a wide range of industries, including technology, financial institutions, infrastructure, real estate, energy and industrials, among others. He also advises on a wide range of corporate governance matters.

Jonathan’s recent transactions have included:

• KKR in numerous transactions, including its $5.2 billion acquisition of Hitachi Transport System, Ltd.; its acquisition, with Gaw Capital, of the Hyatt Regency Tokyo, which was named “Best Property Deal in North Asia” by FinanceAsia; its acquisition of Bushu Pharmaceuticals Ltd.; its $2 billion acquisition of Mitsubishi Corp.-UBS Realty from Mitsubishi Corporation and UBS Asset Management, which was named “M&A Deal of the Year (Premium)” at the ALB Japan Law Awards; its acquisition of Yayoi from ORIX Corporation; its acquisition of Central Tank Terminal from an affiliate of Macquarie Infrastructure and Real Assets; and its acquisition, with Rakuten, of a controlling stake in Seiyu from Walmart, which was named “Private Equity Deal of the Year” at the Asia Legal Awards, as well as restructurings and sales of KKR’s private portfolio companies
• Blackstone in multiple transactions, including its sale of a minority stake in IBS Software, its $6.3 billion acquisition of Crown Resorts Limited and Blackstone Real Estate Income Trust’s $6 billion acquisition of Home Partners of America
• SoftBank Corp. in the $30 billion business integration of its consolidated subsidiary, Z Holdings Corporation—the parent company of Yahoo! Japan—with LINE Corporation, which was named “M&A Deal of the Year: Premium” and “Technology, Media and Telecommunications Deal of the Year” at the ALB Japan Law Awards
• Monex Group and Coincheck in connection with Coincheck’s pending business combination with Thunder Bridge Capital Partners IV
• J.C. Flowers in its acquisition of the Asia Pacific subsidiaries of Chi-X and their subsequent sale to Cboe Global Markets
• China National Chemical Corporation in its $43 billion acquisition of Syngenta AG
• USAA in multiple transactions, including the $1.8 billion sale of its brokerage and wealth management divisions to Charles Schwab, and the $850 million sale of its mutual fund and ETF businesses to Victory Capital
• Vistra Energy Corp., the parent company for TXU Energy and Luminant, in its merger with Dynegy Inc.
• L3 Technologies in its sale of its Vertex Aerospace business
• Corsair in its strategic investment in CamberView Partners and subsequent disposition to PJT Partners
• Astatine Investment Partners in its acquisition of Conduent Incorporated’s commercial vehicle operations business
• EQT in its acquisition of a majority interest in Sitecore
• Private equity firms, including Riverstone and H.I.G. Capital, in sales of minority stakes

Jonathan has been recognized as one of the top M&A and governance lawyers in Japan by Who’s Who Legal and honored for his work in M&A and private equity by Asian Legal Business and IFLR 1000. He is fluent in Japanese. Jonathan received his J.D. from Harvard Law School, an A.M. from Harvard University and a B.A. from Brigham Young University.