Crimson Phoenix’s team and network

Over the years, our firm has developed close relationships with a number of leading industrialists, entrepreneurs, financiers, investment professionals, consultants and government officials in Japan and abroad. We regularly work with a number of specialists with specific skills in executing our engagements to augment our own team where necessary.

We also have personal relationships with a number of like-minded M&A boutiques in Asia, Europe, the USA and Australia, with whom we are able to work on a project-specific basis.

Crimson Phoenix is managed by Yuuichiro Nakajima.

Yuuichiro Nakajima

Crimson Phoenix was founded by Yuuichiro Nakajima in 2003. He started his career in investment banking in 1987 when he joined S.G.Warburg in London. He moved to Crosby Corporate Advisory in 1997 to focus on transactions between European and Asian companies and then joined PricewaterhouseCoopers Corporate Finance and Investment Banking in 1999 with a brief to develop the firm’s Japan-related business in the UK. This was followed by his move two years later to PwC in Tokyo as Managing Director in the M&A advisory practice.

After establishing Crimson Phoenix in 2003, Yuuichiro was hired to represent Business Development Asia LLC as Country Head for Japan between 2007 and 2009. A long-term resident in the United Kingdom until 2001, Yuuichiro has a deep understanding of, and broad experience in, working with British, Dutch, German, Swedish, French, Swiss and other European companies, having assisted them in M&A, equity financing, listing, and general financial advice and consulting work. He has also carried out transactions in other parts of the world, including the USA, South Africa, China, Korea, Thailand, Singapore and Indonesia, in addition to Japan. He has also developed a highly international network in Japan in addition to his extensive domestic contact base. In recent years Yuuichiro has represented a large number of foreign clients in their dealings with Japanese counterparts, mostly medium-sized transactions with significant strategic value to the principals. He has also assisted Japanese companies with disposals to foreign buyers and fund-raising from overseas investors.

In addition to his corporate finance work, Yuuichiro Nakajima is an often-quoted figure by European and Asian broadcast media, notably the BBC, on Japanese business, economic, financial and political issues. (Follow this link for recent interviews by iTV Asia and BBC World TV: http://www.itv-asia.com/interview/yuuichiro-nakajima, http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/13465715.)

Yuuichiro Nakajima was educated at Keio University, Tokyo, and London Business School. He is bilingual in Japanese and English.