Profile
Jerry Carter is a commercial real estate and M&A attorney based in Tokyo.
Jerry advises on complex cross-border multi-asset purchase and sale transactions and financing transactions across all key asset classes. He also advises on complex cross-border M&A transactions, joint ventures, private equity, and real estate fund formation and investment.
Jerry has represented public and private companies, investment banks, financial institutions, private equity funds, insurance companies, and institutional investors across various industries both inbound into Japan and outbound from Japan.
Prior to joining Greenberg Traurig, Jerry worked at U.S. law firms in Chicago and Tokyo assisting Asian and European companies to enter, operate, and expand in the United States through M&A, commercial, and real estate transactions.
Jerry has lived in Japan for a number of years and can read, write, and speak the Japanese language. He also lectures at a leading law school in Japan.
- Real estate and financing transactions (including data centers, office buildings, multi-family and residential developments, hotels, senior living and care facilities, and integrated resorts and related facilities)
- Mergers & acquisitions (including real estate, technology, automobile, industrial, energy, and life sciences companies and funds)
- Cross-border joint ventures
- Fund formation, management, and investment
Capabilities
Experience
- Represented an asset manager of a real estate platform of a global insurance company in connection with the structuring and investment in a complex joint-venture cross-border investment platform (including a consortium of global insurance companies and a Middle Eastern sovereign wealth fund) targeting multi-family and residential developments across Japan.
- Represented a fund sponsor and manager of a Singapore-domiciled real estate fund in connection with its acquisition and financing of senior living and care real estate assets in Japan.
- Represented a U.S. private equity firm in connection with its potential acquisition of land in Japan on which to build battery energy storage system projects and participate in auctions in Japan for long-term decarbonization power sources.
- Represented a Korean real estate asset management company and a global financial institution in connection with their approximately $200 million acquisition and financing of a data center in the United States.
- Represented a Chinese real estate holding company in connection with its approximately $20 million sale of multi-family and residential developments in the United States.
- Represented a Chinese real estate and development company in connection with its $175 million acquisition and financing of a multi-family and residential development in the United States.
- Represented a European real estate fund in connection with its $86 million sale and disposition of a large mixed-use real estate project in Japan.
- Represented an APAC property and infrastructure company and its co-investment partner, a sovereign wealth fund, in connection with their approximately $1 billion sale of a data center in Japan.
- Represented an APAC property and infrastructure company in connection with its approximately $90 million acquisition of a portfolio of multi-family and residential developments located in a variety of locations in Japan.
- Represented a Chinese private equity firm in connection with its $10 million mezzanine loan used downstream to acquire and finance a parcel of land in the United States.
- Represented a consortium consisting of a Hong Kong publicly listed company and a global casino operator in connection with their potential approximately $8 billion real estate and infrastructure project in Japan.
- Represented a Chinese private equity firm (approximately $2 billion AUM) in connection with the restructuring of its fund investment platform investing in hotel properties across the United States.
- Represented global gaming, hotel and resort companies throughout Japan in connection with their potential billion-dollar real estate and infrastructure projects in Japan.
- Represented a global real estate fund (approximately $100 billion AUM) in connection with its approximately $50 million acquisition of a portfolio of multi-family and residential developments located in a variety of locations in Japan.
- Represented a syndicate of Japanese financial institutions in connection with an approximately $200 million facility extended in Japan and secured by real estate assets located in the United States.
- Represented a global financial institution in connection with its approximately $100 million restructuring and refinancing of a hotel property located in Japan.
- Represented a U.S. private equity firm in connection with its acquisition of a global AI company (including subsidiaries in Japan and the United States).
- Represented a Korean electronics manufacturer in connection with its potential approximately $300 million acquisition of U.S. and German digital services and connectivity system companies.
- Represented a Japanese life sciences company in connection with its potential approximately $100 million acquisition of a U.S. technology company.
- Represented a Japanese technology company in connection with its potential acquisition of a Swiss technology company.
- Represented a Japanese technology company in connection with its reorganization prior to its potential approximately $800 million IPO.
- Represented a Japanese electric utility company in connection with its potential approximately $100 million minority investment in a Vietnamese solar and wind power company.
- Represented a Japanese pharmaceutical manufacturer in connection with its $108 million acquisition of a U.S. pharmaceutical producer.°
- Represented a Japanese manufacturer of inductive components in connection with its $55 million acquisition of a U.S. coil manufacturer.°
- Represented a Japanese manufacturer of ball bearings in connection with its $95 million acquisition of a U.S. tooling manufacturer.°
- Represented a U.S. logistics company in connection with the $15 million sale of its stock to a Japanese logistics company.°
- Represented a Japanese manufacturer of aluminum in connection with its reorganization following its $155 million acquisition of a U.S.-based aluminum extrusion and fabrication company.°
°The above representations were handled by Jerry Carter prior to his joining Greenberg Traurig Horitsu Jimusho.
- Represented a Japanese restaurant chain in connection with its Nasdaq listing.
- Represented a Japanese healthcare technologies company in connection with its Nasdaq listing.
- Represented a Japanese technology company in connection with its potential NYSE listing.
Recognition & Leadership
- Member, Daini Tokyo Bar Association
- Member, American Bar Association
Credentials
- J.D., Indiana University Maurer School of Law
- M.B.A., SKK Graduate School of Business
- Inter-University Center for Japanese Language Studies Program (administered by Stanford University), Yokohama, Japan
- Japanese Full-Year Asian Language Concentration Program, Cornell University
- B.S., summa cum laude, The University of Tennessee
- Japan, Gaikokuho Jimu Bengoshi
- Illinois
- English
- Japanese