Hiroyasu Kato

Mr. Hiroyasu Kato, CPA, is a Managing Director at Mezzanine Corp., President at DCo Tax Corp., and President at GCA Advisory Corp.
He is on the Board of Directors at GCA Savvian Group Corp.
In 1992, he started his career in audit in New York with KPMG, where he provided audit services to Japanese companies and also advised Japanese companies on the establishment of US joint ventures.
In 1998, he returned to Japan and joined KPMG Corporate Finance where he specialized in M&A and transaction advisory related services.
He has experience in a wide range of industries including manufacturing, wholesale, retail, automobile components, pharmaceuticals, and media.
He has specialized experienced in the acquisition of brand apparel, shoes, handbags and accessories.
Key transactions include the acquisition of luxury brand business and merchandise licenses of Hunting World, Bally, Chrome Hearts, Paul Smith and others by ITOCHU Corporation, the acquisition of sales agencies in Oceania area by Fuji Photo Films, the acquisition of SII compressor business by Calsonic, the acquisition of Two Wheels Manufacturing JV Company in Indonesia by Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
in conjunction with Astra, the transfer of electricity transformation operations from Hitachi, Fuji Electric and Meidensha to Japan AE Power Systems, and the acquisition Asahi Kasei by Japan Tobacco.
Mr. Hiroyasu Kato is a frequent lecturer at M&A seminars and contributes articles to M&A magazines.
He is a part-time instructor in the MBA program at Kobe University.
He graduated from Kansai University, where he majored in Commerce.