Shinsei Business Succession

Representative Director Koji Tsukakoshi leads the firm's investment activities. He represents the firm in media and industry publications discussing its succession-driven mandate, including interviews with Teikoku Databank and Tokyo Shoko Research in 2021.

Shinsei Business Succession is a consolidated subsidiary of SBI Shinsei Bank, established to execute the bank's business succession strategy. The firm operates from the bank's headquarters in the Izumi Garden Tower and leverages the bank's financial expertise and external network to support portfolio companies.

The firm avoids growth-stage or turnaround situations. It targets established Japanese companies with a solid business base that are facing a succession crisis due to a lack of heirs. The primary goal is to stabilize the company for a safe generational transition, not to engineer a high-growth exit.

The firm structures its transactions using common and preferred equity. There is no disclosure of debt-financed acquisitions or leveraged buyout structures in any publicly available materials; the model is equity-funded succession support.

After acquiring an equity stake, the firm strengthens governance and financial controls, supports business planning, supplements human resources, and provides financial strategy guidance. The operating company continues to run independently, with Shinsei acting as an active shareholder rather than a day-to-day operator.

Exit paths are flexible and aligned with the wishes of the old and new management teams. The firm states that after a holding period, it typically executes exits through share transfers to new sponsors or co-investors, share buybacks by the portfolio company, or an IPO. In February 2026, it announced a divestiture from one of its holdings.

Yes. The firm can structure deals as sole investments or as co-investments with strategic operating companies, depending on the specific challenges and scale of the target company. This flexibility allows it to bring in industry partners when additional operational expertise is needed.