Keystone Partners Co., Ltd. entered final arrangements to acquire Diamond Asset Finance Company Limited from Mitsubishi HC Capital Inc. (TSE:8593) for ¥6.4 billion on December 22, 2022. For the fiscal year ending March 2022, Diamond Asset Finance Company has a sales of ¥9.8 billion, net assets of ¥40.8 billion, total assets of ¥209.8 billion, EBIT of ¥1.9 billion and net income of ¥2.3 billion as of year ended March, 2022. The transaction is expected to close on March 1, 2023.

Norio Maeda, Megumi Shimizu, Tadaaki Yato and Yasunori Ishizaki of Nishimura & Asahi acted as legal advisor to Mitsubishi HC Capital Inc. (TSE:8593).