Ms. Shimada is a Principal at Mercer’s Global M&A consulting in Tokyo. She provides pre-and-post deal HR/Management and organization related support for both domestic and cross-border M&A deals of various industries and countries. She was a start-up member of the M&A business at Mercer Japan back in 2002 and has been playing the key role since then.
Examples of the projects she led :

- HR/Management Due Diligence of private equity and corporate deals
- Post-merger HR Management integration of large Japanese companies
- Organization survey and change management of foreign affiliated and Japanese companies
- Holistic pre-and-post outbound cross-border acquisition support of listed Japanese companies
- Holistic pre-and-post inbound cross-border acquisition support of foreign acquirers
- Cross-border Joint Venture development and employee transfer support in Japan
- Global HR management program development and implementation of Japanese companies

Prior to joining Mercer, she worked at HR Planning Department of a Japanese Corporation.
Ms. Shimada is the co-author of Attraction and Retention: The Human Capital Strategy (2001, Toyo Keizai), HR Due Diligence for Successful M&A (2006 & 2010 ; Chuo Keizai) and Post-Merger Integration" (2007 ; Nikkei Publishing), “M&A Integration Handbook” (2010, Chio Keizai).
Ms. Shimada holds BA from School of International Political Science and Business, Aoyama Gakuin University and MBA from University of Chicago Booth School of Business.