Citigroup hires ex-Silver Lake partner as Japan M&A head

Prior to joining Silver Lake in 2009, Yoshikawa worked for ten years as an investment banker in Tokyo covering the technology sector, first at Goldman Sachs then at Merrill Lynch.

He also spent several years at Fuji Bank in the M&A advisory group prior to 1999, as well as in the institution's Energy and Project Finance divisions in Houston, Texas.

Masao has an M.B.A. from the University of Chicago and a degree in Economics from Keio University in Tokyo.

The appointment comes as investment banks look to capitalize on the surge in outbound investment from Japan. Indeed, the $50.9 billion of capital invested across 438 outbound deals during the first three quarters of this year is on track to break all previous records.

Supported by low borrowing costs and a strong yen, large corporations and trading houses such as Toshiba and Marubeni have their fingers on the pulse of various industries and can easily identify targets by dint of having tracked their competitors so closely. Those strategic buyers that are less sophisticated and have little or no global expertise rely heavily on investment banks when putting together their outbound strategies.

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