SHIFT Inc. (TSE:3697) executed a definitive agreement to acquire Wahl and Case from EQIQ K.K. for ¥1 billion on March 10, 2023. WAHL+CASE, which will become part of the SHIFT Group, has many customers, with a market-leading position in start-ups and tech companies, with the deep ability to recruit Tech personnel, particularly bilingual engineers, and other frontier skill sets that are being newly created in the tech industry, but have limited talent pools in Japan. WAHL+CASE primarily operates in with the majority of the tech candidate they source being bilingual talents or having unique technology skill sets not yet found in Japan.

The transaction is expected to close on May 1, 2023.