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Hugh Goodwin

Senior Associate
hugh.goodwin@freshfields.mom
Tokyo: +81 3 3584 8500
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Hugh is a senior associate in the Global M&A and Capital (GMAC) group, based in our Tokyo office since 2019. He advises clients on cross-border mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, minority investments, and other significant corporate matters for public and private companies in a range of industries.

Having spent a decade practicing across Asia, the US and Australasia, Hugh is able to draw from his broad experience to bridge technical and cultural differences in Japanese and international transactions.

Hugh is a Gaikokuho Jimu Bengoshi (registered foreign lawyer) and speaks English and Japanese.

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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.

Hugh Goodwin

Senior Associate
hugh.goodwin@freshfields.mom

T +81 3 3584 8500

Tokyo Office

Akasaka Biz Tower 36F

5-3-1 Akasaka, Minato-ku

Tokyo 107-6336

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