, styled as ORIX, is a Japanese diversified financial services group headquartered in

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, and

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, Japan. ORIX offers leasing, lending, rentals, life insurance, real estate financing and development, venture capital, investment and retail banking, commodities funds and securities brokering. In addition to expanding its offerings, ORIX has also expanded globally, offering financial services in North America,

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, the

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. Divisions include Japan-based ORIX Auto Leasing Corporation, which operates in other countries through subsidiaries such as ORIX Auto Leasing (

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) Co., Ltd. It is also known for being the majority owner of the ORIX Buffaloes baseball team in

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History

ORIX was established 17 April 1964 as ''Orient Leasing Co., Ltd.'' The company's name was changed to ORIX Corporation in 1989. ORIX was originally a subsidiary of the trading house Nichimen (now

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Yoshihiko Miyauchi is a Japanese businessman. He is Senior Chairman of ORIX Corp. and was a former CEO of ORIX Corp. Miyauchi served as President of the Council for Promoting Regulatory Reform in Japan. As of 2007, ORIX was Japan's largest leasing and leading d ...

transferred to the company from Nichimen and went on to serve as its chairman and CEO, taking a key role in expanding its leasing business into a global player. Following his retirement in 2014, he was paid a 4.4 billion yen retirement bonus, an amount generally unheard of in the Japanese corporate world. In 2006, Orix USA acquired a majority stake in the investment bank

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to address the growing international demand for middle-market investment banking services. Houlihan Lokey opened offices in Hong Kong and Tokyo in 2007. As of 2007, ORIX was Japan's largest leasing and leading diversified financial services conglomerate with assets in excess of US$69 billion and subsidiaries & associates in 24 countries worldwide. In early 2009, ORIX management advised employees worldwide that due to suffering a series of losses because of the economic downturn, a retrenchment of 10% of its employees would occur. In turn this resulted in the termination of approx 600 individuals' employment contracts. On July 1, 2013 ORIX has acquired approximately 90.01% of the equity in Dutch asset manager

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from

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also from the Netherlands.ORIX press releas
ORIX completes acquisition of Robeco, July 1, 2013
accessdate July 13, 2013 The total sale price was €1,937 million (JPY 250.7 billion). Robeco will help Orix to pursue its growth ambitions in global asset management. ORIX and

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won a 45-year contract in 2015 to operate Itami Airport and

Kansai International Airport Kansai International Airport ( ja, 関西国際空港, Kansai Kokusai Kūkō) commonly known as is the primary international airport in the Greater Osaka Area of Japan and the closest international airport to the cities of Osaka, Kyoto, and ...

in Osaka Prefecture, at a price of around US$18 billion.

References

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ORIX Corporation
Companies listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange Financial services companies based in Tokyo Companies based in Osaka Prefecture Leasing companies Japanese brands Midori-kai Financial services companies established in 1964 Japanese companies established in 1964 {{japan-company-stub