Hugh Goodwin

Hugh’s recent experience includes advising:

• Kirin and its subsidiary, Kyowa Hakko Bio, on the sale of the international business of manufacturing and selling certain amino acids and Human Milk Oligosaccharide to Meihua
• The Yokohama Rubber Company on its US$905m acquisition of Goodyear’s off-the-road tire business
• Leggett & Platt on the pending $285m sale of its Aerospace Products Group to Tinicum.
• Brazilian paper and pulp producer, Suzano, on its $3.4 billion international tissue joint venture with Kimberly-Clark.
• Celsius on its $1.8bn pending acquisition of Alani Nu.
• ENEOS Materials Corporation on its agreement to acquire, from Hungary's MOL Group, a 49% equity interest in ENEOS MOL Synthetic Rubber Ltd.
• Nippon Express Holdings, Inc. on the acquisition of the global logistics group cargo-partner, headquartered in Austria and consisting of 63 target companies around the world, for a total consideration of up to €1.4bn.
• Toray Industries, Inc. on entering into a battery separator film joint venture in Hungary with LG Chem, Ltd.
• SSE plc on an agreement with Pacifico Energy K.K. (a Japanese renewable energy developer) to create a joint ownership company to pursue offshore wind energy development projects in Japan.
• Ajinomoto Co., Inc. on the sale of its entire equity stake in Ajinomoto Animal Nutrition Europe S.A.S., a subsidiary engaged in feed-use amino acid production in Europe, to METabolic EXplorer S.A.
• Eppendorf AG on its acquisition of the centrifuge business of Japan’s Koki Holdings.
• Marubeni Corporation in its acquisition of Danish Salmon A/S together with Nippon Suisan Kaisha and international disposal transactions.
• A major Japanese energy company on its global corporate reorganization of approximately $1bn of clean energy assets.
• Japanese-listed companies on their growth equity and venture capital investments and CVC structures.