White & Case advises Toyota Tsusho Corporation on US$1.34 billion acquisition of Radius

Global law firm White & Case LLP has advised leading Japanese trading company Toyota Tsusho Corporation (Toyota Tsusho) on its US$1.34 billion acquisition of North American metal recycling and steel manufacturing company Radius Recycling, Inc. (Radius).

"White & Case advised on a transaction which demonstrates Toyota Tsusho's commitment to expanding circular economy initiatives and supporting the accelerated global efforts toward achieving carbon neutrality," said White & Case partner Nels Hansen, who co-led the deal team. "The deal also underlines the position that White & Case has established as the leading firm for advising on intricate cross-border deals that set the standard for outbound transactions from Japan."

Toyota Tsusho aims to integrate Radius' strengths with its own to create a closed-loop supply chain focused on recycled materials, enhancing the supply of high quality recycling materials in North America and promoting global manufacturing decarbonization.

The White & Case team which advised on the transaction was led by partners Nels Hansen, Jun Usami, Shino Asayama (all Tokyo) and included partners Sasha Belinkie (New York), David Pezza (Chicago) and Heather Greenfield (Washington, DC), local partners David Albagli and Lorraine Yip (both Tokyo), counsel Takako Onoki (Tokyo), Laura Mulry (Los Angeles) and Samantha Rozell (Chicago) and associates Shintaro Kitayama, Brendan Harvey, Ayako Onishi, Zoey Zhu, Maoko Kamiya (all Tokyo), Brandon Dubov, Gabriella Klein (both New York), Cynthia Gu (Chicago), Dara Brown, Tyrone Crawford, Naari Ha (all Washington, DC), Yuhan Wang (Silicon Valley) and Johannes Wiehe (Düsseldorf).

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