Nels Hansen is a partner in White & Case’s Corporate/M&A practice group, based in Tokyo. He has helped clients complete hundreds of billions of US dollars in completed mergers and acquisitions, hostile or contested transactions, investments and joint ventures, acting primarily for technology, media and telecommunications companies, energy-related companies and private equity and venture capital funds.

In connection with M&A mandates and otherwise, he also has assisted numerous targets of activist shareholder situations in the U.S. and Japan. This experience, together with mandates on behalf of engagement and/or activist hedge funds themselves in the U.S. and Japan, helps our Tokyo team to guide Japanese and international clients in activist shareholder situations with a uniquely global perspective and understanding of both sides of the table.

Chambers reports that “clients single out Nels Hansen for his ‘high level of legal expertise, high level of business understanding and ability to communicate in Japanese,'” and “‘Nels Hansen provided very reliable advice based on his extensive experience and expertise in dealing with activists.’”