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About Junya Suzuki
Junya has extensive experience in cross-border M&A transactions (including complex carve-outs and joint ventures). He is also well versed in restructuring and insolvency, business closures and distressed transactions.
Recent work
M&As and joint ventures
- Advised Mitsubishi Electric Corporation on its strategic investment in a silicon carbide business of Coherent Corp.*
- Advised a major Japanese renewable energy company on the sale of a majority stake in its offshore wind business to a multinational energy company.*
- Advised a leading Japanese electronics company in its acquisition of the global power grid business of a European electronics company.*
- Advised Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd. (also known as Foxconn) and other investors in connection with their investment in Sharp Corporation.*
- Advised Sumitomo Mitsui Finance and Leasing Company, Limited in its acquisition of the Japanese leasing business of the General Electric group.*
- Advised CTBC Bank Co., Ltd. in its acquisition of The Tokyo Star Bank, Limited.*
Venture investments
- Advised Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance Company, Limited in its strategic partnership with Hippo Enterprises Inc.*
Restructuring and insolvency
- Represented a major foreign airline company as debtor's counsel in filing a petition for recognition and assistance of the company's foreign insolvency proceedings pursuant to the Act on Recognition and Assistance of Foreign Insolvency Proceedings of Japan.*
- Represented a domestic airline as debtor's counsel in filing a petition for commencement of bankruptcy proceedings.*
- Represented Takata Corporation as debtor's counsel in its civil rehabilitation proceedings and advised Takata group in relation to US Chapter 11 and 15 proceedings.*
- Acted as Japanese counsel to the Westinghouse group in connection with the group's global restructuring.*
- Represented a leading NYSE-listed technology company in the reorganisation proceedings of a major Japanese semiconductor manufacturer.*
* Representation occurred prior to joining Freshfields
Qualifications
Education
- University of Virginia, US (LL.M.)
- University of Tokyo, Japan (J.D.)
- University of Tokyo, Japan (LL.B.)
Professional memberships
- Member, Tokyo Bar Association
- Member, Law Society of England and Wales
- Member, American Bankruptcy Institute
- Member, INSOL International
- Member, Japan Federation of Insolvency Professionals
- Lecturer, The Business Law Department of Hitotsubashi University Graduate School of Law (2022 and 2024)
Professional qualifications
- Admitted to practice in Japan, the State of New York, and England and Wales
Professional honours
- Ones to Watch, Japan Corporate and Mergers and Acquisitions Law, The Best Lawyers in Japan (2024, 2025)
- Rising Star, Restructuring and Insolvency, The Legal 500 Japan (2024)
- Young Practitioner Spotlight 2022, INSOL International (recognised as one of around 60 rising stars in the globla restruturing market - the sole Japanese practitioner so honoured)