So & Sato Law Offices

Capital Markets and Investment Funds; Regulatory and Compliance; M&A; General Corporate

Partner

11/2021 -            Outside Director at coconala Inc.

06/2020 -          Legal Professional Corporation So & Sato Law Offices (Representative Partner)

01/2019 -            So & Sato Law Offices (Partner)

10/2018              Director and Member of Auditing Committee at Net Protections Holdings Inc.

12/2016 - 12/2018            King & Wood Mallesons Tokyo Office Foreign Law Joint Enterprise (Partner, December 2016 - December 2018)

09/2016 -            Member of Auditing Committee at DLE inc.

06/2016 - 06/2021           Member of Auditing Committee at Zuu Co., Ltd.

03/2015 -            Member of Auditing Committee at Hatena Co., Ltd.

03/2015 - 03/2017            Member of Auditing Committee at save the Children Japan

09/2014 - 03/2015            Part Time Lecturer at Rikkyo University

10/2013 - 11/2016            Namura & Partners Legal Professional Corporation (Toranomon Chuo Law Firm Legal Professional Corporation from December 2014 to November 2016) (Partner)

09/2011 -12/2012             White & Case LLP, Singapore Office (Foreign Associate)

06/2006 - 09/2013            White & Case Law Offices, White & Case LLP, Tokyo Office (Associate)

10/2005 - 04/2006            Yamamoto Sogo Law Office (Associate)

Japanese/English

10/2005-    Dai-ichi Tokyo Bar Association, Japan

Japan Federation of Bar Associations

2007-          Corporate Law Committee at Daiichi Tokyo Bar Association

04/2012-   New York State Bar Association

11/2017-     Information Technology Laws Committee at Daiichi Tokyo Bar Association

Hitotsubashi University (LL.B., 2000); University of Southern California Gould Law School (LL.M., 2011)

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