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Softbank to buy Japan Telecom from Ripplewood for 340 bil. yen

TOKYO, Japan - (From L to R) Ripplewood Holdings, LLC CEO Timothy Collins, Softbank Corp. President Masayoshi Son and Japan Telecom Co. President Hideki Kurashige shake hands at a Tokyo hotel on May 27 after Softbank announced the same day it will buy Japan Telecom from U.S. investment fund Ripplewood for about 340 billion yen in the fall.

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Ripplewood to seek synergy effect from Daiei assets

TOKYO, Japan - Timothy Collins, Chief Executive Officer of Ripplewood Holdings LLC, speaks to reporters in Tokyo on Sept. 17. He said the U.S. investment fund wants to buy Daiei Inc.'s properties in Fukuoka in a bid to seek a synergy effect.

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Ripplewood ready to work with Japan's IRC

TOKYO, Japan - Timothy Collins, chief executive officer of U.S. investment fund Ripplewood Holdings LLC, speaks in a recent interview with Kyodo News in Tokyo. He said Ripplewood is ready to work with Industrial Revitalization Corp. (IRC), set to begin operating in early May, to help troubled Japanese firms.

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Ripplewood shows interest in failed Huis Ten Bosch

TOKYO, Japan - Timothy Collins, president of U.S. investment fund Ripplewood Holdings LLC, speaks in an interview with Kyodo News on March 12. He expressed interest in the possibility of investing in the failed Huis Ten Bosch theme park in Nagasaki Prefecture.

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Reps of New LTCB Partners meet press

TOKYO, Japan - New LTCB Partners CV representatives Masamoto Yashiro (L) and Timothy Collins (R) shake hands before holding a press conference at a Tokyo hotel on Sept. 28 as the Japanese government announced the same day that New LTCB Partners, an investor group led by U.S. investment house Ripplewood Holdings LLC, is the most preferred candidate to acquire all the operations of the nationalized Long-Term Credit Bank of Japan (LTCB).

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Ripplewood shows interest in failed Huis Ten Bosch

TOKYO, Japan - Timothy Collins, president of U.S. investment fund Ripplewood Holdings LLC, speaks in an interview with Kyodo News on March 12. He expressed interest in the possibility of investing in the failed Huis Ten Bosch theme park in Nagasaki Prefecture. (Kyodo)

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THE CLANDESTINE MARRIAGE

THE CLANDESTINE MARRIAGE JOAN COLLINS, NIGEL HAWTHORNE, TIMOTHY SPALL Date: 1999

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Softbank to buy Japan Telecom from Ripplewood for 340 bil. yen

TOKYO, Japan - (From L to R) Ripplewood Holdings, LLC CEO Timothy Collins, Softbank Corp. President Masayoshi Son and Japan Telecom Co. President Hideki Kurashige shake hands at a Tokyo hotel on May 27 after Softbank announced the same day it will buy Japan Telecom from U.S. investment fund Ripplewood for about 340 billion yen in the fall. (Kyodo)

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Timothy Collins

TOKYO, Japan - Timothy Collins, chief executive officer of Ripplewood Holdings LLC, says the company is not planning to repurchase the stock of Shinsei Bank in an interview with Kyodo News on April 29. (Kyodo)

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Ripplewood to seek synergy effect from Daiei assets

TOKYO, Japan - Timothy Collins, Chief Executive Officer of Ripplewood Holdings LLC, speaks to reporters in Tokyo on Sept. 17. He said the U.S. investment fund wants to buy Daiei Inc.'s properties in Fukuoka in a bid to seek a synergy effect. (Kyodo)

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Ripplewood ready to work with Japan's IRC

TOKYO, Japan - Timothy Collins, chief executive officer of U.S. investment fund Ripplewood Holdings LLC, speaks in a recent interview with Kyodo News in Tokyo. He said Ripplewood is ready to work with Industrial Revitalization Corp. (IRC), set to begin operating in early May, to help troubled Japanese firms. (Kyodo)

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New LTCB to open as FRC approves agreement

TOKYO, Japan - The Financial Reconstruction Commission on Feb. 9 approved the final agreement on the sale of the nationalized Long-Term Credit Bank of Japan (LTCB) to an international consortium led by U.S. fund Ripplewood Holdings LLC. The new LTCB begins operations March 2. Among the signatories to the agreement were Masamoto Yashiro (third from R), as representative of New LTCB Partners, LTCB President Takashi Anzai (second from L), Noboru Matsuda (third from L), governor of Deposit Insurance Corp. (DIC), which owns LTCB's 2.4 billion common shares, Ripplewood founder Timothy Collins (second from R), and Christopher Flowers (R), former head of the Goldman Sachs Financial Institutions Group. At left is Keiji Matsuda, deputy governor of DIC.

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Reps of New LTCB Partners meet press

TOKYO, Japan - New LTCB Partners CV representatives Masamoto Yashiro (L) and Timothy Collins (R) shake hands before holding a press conference at a Tokyo hotel on Sept. 28 as the Japanese government announced the same day that New LTCB Partners, an investor group led by U.S. investment house Ripplewood Holdings LLC, is the most preferred candidate to acquire all the operations of the nationalized Long-Term Credit Bank of Japan (LTCB).