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Takashi Toyokawa examines fundraising and exit conditions in Japan and Southeast Asia, from concentrated capital to cross-border M&A and liquidity.

The tools have never been more capable, or the work faster to produce. So why aren’t legal bills falling, and why, for some clients, are they beginning to rise? Authored by: Mason Gregory, Marcus Wolter and Lukas Kratochvil Ask a general counsel what artificial intelligence has done to their legal spend, and you will rarely hear the answer the technology seemed to promise. The tools are remarkable. Leaving aside questions of accuracy, a first draft that once took a junior ass

Authored by: Marcus Wolter and Lukas Kratochvil China’s Belt and Road programme pushed green energy financing to a record $20.1bn in the first half of 2026, exceeding the whole of 2025 in just six months.1 The immediate catalyst was the war in Iran: oil and gas prices spiked, renewables looked cheaper by comparison, and capital moved. Nothing about the economics of a wind turbine changed in the meantime. However, that has long been one of the defining features of the sector:

Explore how Singapore's VCC regime enables continuation vehicles and the active management of stranded corporate minority portfolios to unlock value and improve liquidity.

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Novara Advisory Partners Launches as the World’s First AI-Accelerated Global Professional Services Firm, Bringing Together Investment Banking, Law and Strategy

Novara Advisory Partners、Ignosi Partners と Angsana Merchant Capital を買収

Novara Advisory Partners、プロフェッショナルサービス業界初、投資銀行・法務・戦略を統合し、AIによって専門家の仕事を加速・効率化したグローバルファームとして始動

Novara Advisory Partners Acquires Ignosi Partners and Angsana Merchant Capital

Singapore · London · Tokyo · New York Today, Novara Advisory Partners opens its doors in Singapore, London, Tokyo and New York as a fully integrated global strategic advisory firm: investment banking, strategy advisory and legal counsel under one roof, with AI built into the architecture rather than bolted on top of it. Most clients know the alternative all too well. A deal needs a banker to run the process, a strategist to stress-test the thesis, and a lawyer to structure an

By Marcus Wolter The hardest part of exit preparation is rarely the work itself. It is understanding what the work is actually for and that question drives everything downstream: timing, deal structure, and the specific preparation required. Founders who skip it often spend years, and considerable advisory fees, optimizing for the wrong audience, or for an audience too broad to be useful at all. The Same Company Looks Different to Every Buyer A strategic acquirer planning to

Most fund review briefs land the same way. A large document package, a tight timeline, and an investment committee that needs clear answers before it will approve the commitment. The question is not whether the documents can be read. It is whether the lawyers reading them are focusing on what is key for your investment decision or just flag everything as a risk. That distinction is what our fund review practice is built around. What we bring to the work Our team has advised

By Marcus Wolter Everyone agrees that intellectual property drives enterprise value. That claim is easy to make in a pitch deck or an earnings call. It is much harder to defend across a negotiating table, where “valuable IP” stops being a slogan and becomes a number- and that number is rarely obvious. A patent that has never been tested in court, a brand that does not travel cleanly across the jurisdictions where the buyer actually operates, an R&D line item that may or may n

By Marcus Wolter SpaceX is public. Anthropic has filed. OpenAI filed days later, but has signaled its own listing may not arrive until 2027. After two years of market participants pricing in a wave of mega-IPOs from the leading AI and space companies, that wave has finally arrived, but it is breaking unevenly, one name at a time rather than as a single event. For dealmakers, the timing matters. The conventional playbook holds that mega-IPOs reignite M&A activity: they create