4 July 2023

Clifford Chance advises Mitsui on its US$472.5 million majority acquisition of Celanese’s Food Ingredients Business

M&A Consumer & Retail Expected to close Netherlands United States

Advising firms

Deal team

33 lawyers named

Lawyer	Firm	Seniority	Practice	Office
Natsuko Sugihara Lead	Clifford Chance	Partner	M&A	Tokyo
Tobias Kamerling Lead	Clifford Chance	Counsel	M&A	Düsseldorf
Yuki Hoshinaga	Clifford Chance	Senior associate	M&A	Tokyo
Benjamin Sibbett	Clifford Chance	Partner	M&A	New York
Matthew Warner	Clifford Chance	Partner	M&A	New York
Susan Trepekli	Clifford Chance	Associate	M&A	Not stated
Jeroen Thijssen	Clifford Chance	Partner	M&A	Amsterdam
Sebastiaan van Steenbergen	Clifford Chance	Associate	M&A	Amsterdam
Florian Reiling	Clifford Chance	Counsel	IP	Düsseldorf
Judith Dany	Clifford Chance	Associate	IP	Düsseldorf
Daryl Fairbairn	Clifford Chance	Counsel	IP	New York
Jennifer Saionz	Clifford Chance	Associate	IP	New York
Michiel Sunderman	Clifford Chance	Partner	tax	Amsterdam
Alec Sanderson	Clifford Chance	Associate	tax	Amsterdam
Jason Sacks	Clifford Chance	Associate	tax	New York
Gunnar Sachs	Clifford Chance	Partner	regulatory, commercial contracts, compliance and data privacy	Düsseldorf
Haruka Okihara	Clifford Chance	Counsel	regulatory, commercial contracts, compliance and data privacy	Düsseldorf
Yannick Frost	Clifford Chance	Senior associate	regulatory, commercial contracts, compliance and data privacy	Düsseldorf
Marlene Kießling	Clifford Chance	Associate	regulatory, commercial contracts, compliance and data privacy	Düsseldorf
Annabel Joschko	Clifford Chance	Associate	regulatory, commercial contracts, compliance and data privacy	Düsseldorf
Ines Keitel	Clifford Chance	Partner	employment	Frankfurt
Christopher Fischer	Clifford Chance	Counsel	employment	Frankfurt
Linda Tahiri	Clifford Chance	Associate	employment	Frankfurt
David Walsh	Clifford Chance	Associate	employment	New York
Najib Muslem	Clifford Chance	Associate	employment	Amsterdam
Masafumi Shikakura	Clifford Chance	Counsel	antitrust	Tokyo
Dimitri Slobodenjuk	Clifford Chance	Partner	antitrust	Düsseldorf
Caroline Scholke	Clifford Chance	Counsel	antitrust	Düsseldorf
Julius Schradin	Clifford Chance	Senior associate	antitrust	Düsseldorf
Thomas Voland	Clifford Chance	Partner	environmental, real estate and trade regulation	Düsseldorf
Maximilian Sablotny	Clifford Chance	Senior associate	environmental, real estate and trade regulation	Düsseldorf
Brigitta Olk	Clifford Chance	Associate	environmental, real estate and trade regulation	Düsseldorf
Kieran John McCarthy	Clifford Chance	Senior associate	environmental, real estate and trade regulation	London

Stated terms

Stated value: USD 473m (US$472.5 million)
What the figure measures: Total transaction value
Client: Mitsui & Co., Ltd.Buy-side
Counterparties: Celanese Corporation (Sell-side)