US PARTNERS

Strategic Alliance: Evercore Partners

Established in 1996, Evercore Partners is a leading boutique advisory and investment firm. Evercore provides mergers and acquisitions and restructuring advisory services to prominent multinational corporations. The firm also manages private equity and venture capital funds. Evercore recently extended its investing business to create Evercore Asset Management, an institutional asset management firm. The company's recent advisory transactions include SBC's $22 billion acquisition of AT&T, Tyco's and Cendant's proposed split-ups, Scientific Atlanta's pending $6.9 billion sale to Cisco Systems, and Swiss Re's pending $6.8 billion purchase of General Electric's Insurance Business.

The alliance with Evercore Partners is intended to cover large-scale, cross-border M&A and related transactions between Japanese and North American companies.