Jonathan G. Stradling

A member of 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 multiple transactions, including its pending acquisition of Hitachi Transport System, Ltd.; 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; its acquisition of Mitsubishi Corp.-UBS Realty from Mitsubishi Corporation and UBS Asset Management; its acquisition of Yayoi from ORIX Corporation; and its acquisition of Central Tank Terminal from an affiliate of Macquarie Infrastructure and Real Assets, as well as restructurings and sales of KKR’s private portfolio companies
• Blackstone in multiple transactions, including 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
• 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
• Monex Group and Coincheck in connection with Coincheck’s pending business combination with Thunder Bridge Capital Partners IV, which will result in a newly formed holding company in the Netherlands with an expected implied equity value of approximately $1.25 billion
• China National Chemical Corporation in its $43 billion acquisition of Syngenta AG
• Vistra Energy Corp., the parent company for TXU Energy and Luminant, in its merger with Dynegy Inc.
• J.C. Flowers in its acquisition of the Asia Pacific subsidiaries of Chi-X and their subsequent sale to Cboe Global Markets
• L3 Technologies in its sale of its Vertex Aerospace business
• Corsair in its strategic investment in CamberView Partners and subsequent disposition to PJT Partners
• Alinda Capital 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. 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.