MUFG Bank Seeks Partners to Share Corporate Buyout Risk
MUFG Bank is seeking partners to share risk on large corporate deals. CEO Masakazu Osawa says the bank aims to diversify funding as buyout deals grow in size.
Japan's largest lender, MUFG Bank, is actively seeking strategic partners to share the risks associated with financing major corporate acquisitions. The banking arm of MITSUBISHI UFJ FINL-SPON ADR is looking toward life and non-life insurers, government entities, and private credit funds to co-invest in large-scale deals, particularly leveraged buyouts.
CEO Masakazu Osawa noted that the bank intends to limit the use of its own balance sheet for these transactions. As a wave of leveraged buyouts sweeps through the domestic market, deal sizes are increasingly reaching the trillions of yen, making risk diversification a priority for the institution.
