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Company name

Flatwell & Co. LLC
Japan Corporate Advisory (DBA-Doing Business As)

History

  • 2001
    Founded in Burlingame, California
    (Post-dot-com bubble)
    Support for reverse listing on the US stock market
    M&A negotiations and acting as executive officer for a US listed company
  • 2006
    Full-scale support for Japanese companies entering the US market begins
    Business registration, visa support, accounting, and tax support begins
  • 2011
    (Post-Lehman shock)
    Advisory for restructuring of Japanese companies’ US business
    Support for business sales, mergers, and liquidations
  • 2014
    Opened affiliate branches in San Diego, Los Angeles, and Kansas
  • 2015
    Opened Miami affiliate branch for real estate financing, bridge loan signing, and asset management

  • 2016
    Opened Honolulu affiliate branch to provide restaurant with business advisory services and bridge loan brokerage services
  • 2018
    Support for US stock listings, support for US market ADRs(American depository receipt) and US institutional investors
  • 2020
    (COVID-19 market conditions)
    Restructuring/liquidation/subsidiary management/business advisory for Japanese companies in the US
    Business sale/merger/liquadation support
    Manufacturing base restructuring project
  • 2025
    Investment advisory for US instutitional investors and Japanese companies
    Acquisition of Japanese companies by US pension funds
    SPAC listing and reverse listing advisory for family offices in Asia

President/CEO

Satoru Hirai

Born in Japan and raised across three different continents, Satoru worked as an investment banker in companies across the US, Japan, and the UK. He has experience in negotiations, M&As, equity, debt, finance, and public markets and in 2001, he established Japan Corporate Advisory.
Formerly at:
  • NatWest Bank Plc.
    Investment Banking, Corporate Finance
  • Jardine Matheson Holdings Limited
    Specialty Products Division, International Business Division
  • Solomon Smith Barney
    Fixed Income Division, Derivatives Trading

Notable Clients

  • Asahi Glass
  • Aji no Hyoshiro Co., Ltd.
  • Okamura Food Industry Co., Ltd.
  • Ono Pharmaceutical
  • Kawai Electric Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
  • Konan University Co., Ltd.
  • Koganei Co., Ltd.
  • Kojima Productions Co., Ltd.
  • Cosmotec Co., Ltd.
  • Sanyo North America
  • JFE Shoji Corporation
  • JSOL Co., Ltd.
  • Shionogi Pharmaceutical
  • sharp
  • Sony
  • SoftBank
  • Sumitomo Life Insurance Company
  • Sumitronics Co., Ltd.
  • Daiichi Sankyo Co., Ltd.
  • Tiger
  • Daiwa Institute of Research Ltd.
  • Daiwa House
  • Takeda Pharmaceutical Company
  • Chiba University
  • Digital Garage Inc.
  • Tokyo Electron Devices Ltd.
  • Toray
  • Toray Precision
  • Toyota Motor Corporation
  • Toyota Tsusho
  • Nara Medical University
  • Kyoto University
  • Tokyo Denki University
  • Nippatsu Sales Co., Ltd.
  • Nitto Electric
  • Japan Airlines
  • Nippon Control System
  • Nippon Shaft Co., Ltd.
  • Taiyo Kogyo
  • Panasonic Corporation
  • Hitachi America, Ltd.
  • Hitachi Zosen
  • V-Tex Co., Ltd.
  • BBIX, Inc. (SoftBank)
  • Fuji Electric Co., Ltd.
  • Funai Research Institute Co., Ltd.
  • Benesse Corporation
  • National Defense Medical College Co., Ltd.
  • Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation
  • Mitsubishi Research Institute
  • Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation
  • Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
  • Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ
  • Mitsubishi Plastics
  • Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
  • Resona Bank
  • REDAC, Inc.