Mindy Allen has joined southgate. Mindy is a senior U.S. lawyer who focuses on cross-border M&A, joint ventures, and strategic alliances. She also has considerable experience in corporate governance, U.S. capital markets and securities regulation, project finance and dispute resolution.

Mindy began her career at the New York and Tokyo offices of a leading Wall Street firm. Before joining southgate, she most recently served as a senior counsel in the legal department of a major Japanese trading house, where she supervised a broad range of outbound investments and business ventures in a variety of industries around the world.