Hiroshi Kondo

Senior Counsel

Employment & Compensation、Corporate / M&A

Professional Summary

Hiroshi Kondo is a senior counsel in the Corporate/M&A Group. He has held a variety of leadership positions within Baker McKenzie, including heading the Firm’s M&A, Venture Capital and Private Equity groups. In addition to his practice, Hiroshi has authored and contributed to numerous publications. He is also a member of the Tokyo Bar Association and the Japan Federation of Bar Associations.

He has been a partner of Baker McKenzie Tokyo since 1995, and representative of Baker & McKenzie LPC since 2022.

Practice Focus

Hiroshi focuses on mergers and acquisitions, private equity investment, corporate/commercial and labor law. He has acted as lead counsel for several high-profile M&A transactions in Japan’s consumer industries, including food and beverage, pharmaceuticals, telecommunications and insurance markets. He also has extensive experience in private equity investments – particularly with MBOs and LBOs – corporate restructuring, securities regulation, anti-monopoly regulation and labor dispute resolution.

Representative Clients, Cases or Matters

Represented the largest domestic beer manufacturer in its acquisition of a beverage company in Australia.
Represented a domestic consumer goods manufacturer in its acquisition of a major company in the same trade in Australia.
Represented a major foreign insurance company concerning a tender offer for a Japanese insurance company.
Represented a European telecommunications company in the purchase and subsequent sale of its stake in one of Japan’s largest telecommunications companies and its wireless arm.
Counseled a major Japanese life insurance company concerning a complex demutualization merger involving the following components: establishment of a new joint venture company (i.e., K.K.) of a life insurance company with a major e-commerce and Internet conglomerate; takeover of the assets of a bankrupted life insurer; and an eventual merger of a major Japanese life insurance (mutual) company with the joint venture for the purpose of the demutualization.
Acted on behalf of a major domestic telecommunications company in one of the world’s largest mergers by three of Japan’s telecommunications companies.