Eliza Joseph
Senior Associate
Senior Associate
Tokyo
Eliza focuses on M&A, corporate advisory and governance matters across a range of sectors.
Eliza is a Senior Associate in the Corporate practice of Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer in Tokyo.
She advises Japanese and international clients, including listed and private companies, on a wide range of corporate transactions and advisory matters. She has practised in both London and Tokyo.
Eliza has particular experience in the financial services and fintech sectors. In 2024, she spent seven months on secondment to the M&A legal team at Lloyds Banking Group in London, where she assisted on UK and international acquisitions, disposals and joint ventures.
Experience & capabilities
Selected matters
- a major Japanese industrial group on the acquisition of a turbomachinery service provider in Europe, the USA and the Middle East
- a major Japanese trading house on the acquisition of a turnkey solutions machinery manufacturer in Europe
- a major Japanese trading house on an investment in an electronics trade-in platform in the Middle East and Europe
- a UK-listed financial services group on the disposal of its insurance and broking business in Southeast Asia
- Link Group on the sale of its UK and Irish funds management business to Waystone Group
- Panmure Gordon on its all-share merger with Liberum
- The Ardonagh Group on the merger between Markerstudy Group and Atlanta Group, Ardonagh's personal lines insurance broking business, funded by new investment led by Pollen Street Capital and Bain Capital Special Situations and valuing Atlanta at £1.2 billion
- Willis Towers Watson on its disposals of Innovisk Capital Partners, a London-based MGA, and The Asset Management Exchange Group, an institutional funds platform
- EML Payments on its £226 million acquisition of Prepaid Financial Services Limited, a prepaid product provider, e-money issuer and financial technology supplier
- Hammerson plc on its 2021 disposal of a portfolio of retail parks valued at £330 million
- The Go-Ahead Group on its £670 million recommended takeover by Kinetic and Globalvia
- Pension Insurance Corporation on a number of reinsurance transactions
- a major financial institution on a number of minority fintech investments
