クリムゾン フィーニクス、株式会社RYODENによるTOPAS electronic AG買収を助言
クリムゾン フィーニクスは、株式会社RYODEN（東証プライム：8084）によるTOPAS electronic AG（ドイツ・ハノーバー市を拠点とする半導体および技術サービス事業会社）の買収について助言を行い、本件は2026年7月1日に完了しました。 この度、RYODENの買収プロセス全体を通じてご支援できましたことを、大変光栄に思っています。本件は、当社が最も強みとするクロスボーダー案件の典型であり、日系企業の欧州における買収案件について、案件の発掘から組成、そして完了に至るまでを支援するとともに、ビジネスおよび文化面での相違を橋渡しする役割を果たすものです。 RYODENは1947年に設立され、東京に本社を置く技術商社兼システムインテグレーターです。ファクトリーオートメーション、空調・ビルシステム、ICT、電子デバイスの各分野を手掛け、日本国内および海外の顧客にサービスを提供しています。 TOPAS electronic AGは1978年設立で、欧州の産業機器、通信、医療、計測制御分野向けに半導体を供給するとともに、ユニファイドコミュニケーション関連のシステムおよびサービス事業を展開し、欧州において確固たる地位を築いてきました。同社は40年以上にわたり、欧州の顧客および仕入先との間に深い関係を構築しています。 本件買収は、RYODENの中長期成長戦略を後押しするものであり、TOPASが有する現地の顧客基盤および技術サポート力と、RYODENが有する日本、アジア、米国における調達力、そしてプライベートブランド製品の提供力を組み合わせることで、同社の欧州における事業基盤を強化するものです。 RYODENおよびTOPAS electronic AGの両チームの皆様に、心よりお祝いを申し上げます。 クリムゾン フィーニクスは、日本関連のクロスボーダーM&Aアドバイザリーを専門とし、ロンドン、フランクフルト、東京の各拠点を通じて、日系企業と欧米企業を、買収、売却、合弁事業、資金調達の各分野で結びつけています。
Crimson Phoenix advises RYODEN Corporation on its acquisition of TOPAS electronic AG
Crimson Phoenix has advised RYODEN Corporation (TSE Prime: 8084) on its acquisition of TOPAS electronic AG, a Hannover-based semiconductor and technology services business, in a deal that completed on 1 July 2026. We are proud to have supported RYODEN throughout this process. This deal reflects the kind of cross-border work … Read more
Yuuichiro Nakajima discusses Japan-related M&A in Export to Japan podcast
Crimson Phoenix’s Managing Director, Yuuichiro Nakajima, took part in a podcast to disucss Japan-related cross-border M&A trends and issues with Steve Crane from Export to Japan. The Japan-related M&A market remains active and both its volume and value continue on their upward trends. Particularly there are more Japan-inbound deals, as … Read more
Crimson Phoenix painted by Hokusai
“Phoenix”, by Katsushika Hokusai, the creature’s crimson plumage and feathers glowing in dramatic contrast to the indigo blue background. Hokusai painted this crimson phoenix on the ceiling of the Higashimachi Festival Float, now kept at the Hokusai-kan Museum in Obuse, Nagano Prefecture, in 1844 at the age of 85. A … Read more
中島勇一郎が日経読者サイトで紹介されました。 Yuuichiro Nakajima featured on a Nikkei readers’ webpage
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The Japanese Economy, M&A and the Beautiful Game of Football
Crimson Phoenix Managing Director Yuuichiro Nakajima was interviewed by Kalavinka Advisors, a specialised corporate intelligence, enhanced due diligence and advisory services firm based in Hong Kong, for its publication Viewpoints. The full text is reproduced below by kind permission: Yuuichiro Nakajima is the founder of Crimson Phoenix, a cross-border Japan-focused … Read more
Crimson Phoenix acts on Japanese-French joint venture formation
Crimson Phoenix, the M&A advisory firm specialising in Japan-related cross-border transactions, announces that it advised a listed Japanese media conglomerate on its strategic expansion in the European market through the establishment of a joint venture with a French media group specialising in Franco-Belgian comics. This partnership, which was formalised on … Read more
State visit and M&A
It is heartening to see how well the recent state visit by the Emperor and Empress of Japan has been receiving in the UK. The Emperor himself has made a number of heartfelt and personal comments of gratitude for and appreciation of the warm welcome that they have been given. … Read more
Use of Japanese company shares as acquisition currency
Japan is taking steps to broaden companies’ options for using their own shares in acquisitions, aiming to facilitate more global deals, as reported by Nikkei. Changes proposed for 2025 to the Companies Act would enable “share delivery” to acquire stakes in foreign companies. This method allows buyers to offer their … Read more
Welcome to Crimson Phoenix’s news posts in 2024
It has been reported that M&A transactions involving Japanese companies in 2023 numbered 4,015, down by 6.7% in volume from 2022, the first decline in three years. It would appear that the increase in interest rates in major markets (excluding Japan) had reduced clarity on valuation and discouraged corporate investments. … Read more
What is the Japanese word for Unicorn?
Unicorns, privately held start-up companies valued at US$1 billion or more, are so called owing to their statistical rarity (though in real life of course they only exist in legends). What does the presence of unicorns, the corporate kind, signify to a country? Is it a reflection or product of … Read more
Harvard Business Review podcasts on Carlos Ghosn
Listen to Yuuichiro Nakajima’s thoughts on the Nissan ex-CEO’s dramatic escape from detention Yuuichiro Nakajima is featured in a podcast series by Harvard Business Review on Carlos Ghosn and the impact that he has had on Nissan and more broadly on Japanese business. When Japan’s most famous CEO is suddenly … Read more
Crimson Phoenix webinar on Japanese M&A
Join us at Crimson Phoenix for a webinar on Japan-related cross-border M&A transactions, on Friday, 16th April at 10am BST/11am CET/6pm JT. Designed to address concerns and frustrations sometimes felt by Western European M&A principals and their advisors, it will draw on our extensive transaction experience. We will share with … Read more
Yuuichiro Nakajima delivers lecture at MESGO
Yuuichiro spoke to participants in the Executive Master’s Course in European Sports Governance on the subject of finance and governance in Asian football in Tokyo on 8th March, 2018
Yuuichiro Nakajima interviewed on BBC World Service Radio
Yuuichiro provides his views on Japan’s 14th consecutive month of the growth in the country’s export, in an interview for the World Business Report, 18th February, 2018.