Nikko Citigroup

Nikko Citigroup Limited
日興シティグループ証券株式会社

Type	Joint venture
Industry	Investment banking Securities trading
Founded	2003
Headquarters	Tokyo, Japan (HQ) Osaka, Japan (branch)
Key people	Yuji Shirakawa, Chairman Sim S. Lim, President/CEO
Employees	1,700
Website	www.nikkocitigroup.com

Nikko Citigroup Limited (日興シティグループ証券株式会社, Nikkō Shitigurūpu Shōken Kabushiki-gaisha^?) is a financial services firm in Japan. It is a joint venture between Citigroup and the Nikko Cordial Corporation.

Nikko Cordial and Citigroup first established a joint venture in Japan in 1999 as Salomon Smith Barney Japan Ltd., a company registered and domiciled in the Cayman Islands which operated through a "branch office" in Japan under the trade name Nikko Salomon Smith Barney Securities (日興ソロモン・スミス・バーニー証券, Nikkō Soromon Sumisu Bānī Shōken^?).

The company was re-incorporated in Japan in December of 2003 and renamed Nikko Citigroup as part of an overall unification of the Citigroup brand.

Nikko Citigroup is a member of the Tokyo Stock Exchange, Osaka Stock Exchange, Nagoya Stock Exchange and JASDAQ. Its headquarters are located in the Shin-Marunouchi Building in Otemachi, Chiyoda, Tokyo. It also has a branch office in the Sonezaki district of Kita-ku, Osaka.

In October 2007, Citigroup purchased Nikko Cordial Corporation.

At the 2008 ALB Japan Law Awards^[1], Nikko Citigroup was crowned:

• In-House of the Year - International Investment Bank In-House Team of the Year
• Deal of the Year - M&A Deal of the Year
• Deal of the Year - Japan Deal of the Year

In October 2010, this entity was rebranded and renamed Citigroup Global Markets Japan. The new website is http://www.citigroupglobalmarkets.co.jp/english/.

References

1. ^ www.legalbusinessonline.com.au