Sohsuke Takahashi

Tokyo Office
Tokyo Bar Association

Practice Areas

  • Structured finance
  • Financial transaction
  • Corporate business law

Biography

1978
Born in Tokyo
Mar. 1997
Waseda Jitsugyo Senior High School
Mar. 2001
Waseda University Faculty of Political Science and Economics
Oct. 2004
The Supreme Court's Legal Research and Training Institute (57th term)
Oct. 2004
Admitted to the Bar
Registered with the Second Tokyo Bar Association
Atsumi & Partners
May. 2007
Registered with the Tokyo Bar Association
Midosuji Legal Profession Corporation Tokyo Office
May. 2010
University of Michigan Law School (LL.M.)
May. 2011
Butzel Long (Detroit, USA)
Jul. 2011
Admitted to the State Bar of California
Sep. 2011
Midosuji Legal Profession Corporation Tokyo Office

Publications

  • “Possibility of application of the US security regulations to M&A of J-REIT” (Kinyu Houmu Jijo No.1856)
  • “Impact of bankruptcy of J-REIT” (Kinyu Houmu Jijo No.1855)
  • “The practical treatment against the issues on financial instruments and exchange law in the field of real estate structured finance” (Gekkan Shihon Shijo No. 276)
  • “M&A of the real estate investment corporation (REIT) - legal investigation of its possibility” (Kinyu Houmu Jijo No.1828)
  • “M&A of J-REIT - Feasibility from legal perspective” (Gekkan Shihon Shijo No. 260)
  • “Equity in Tokumei Kumiai partnerships to be deemed securities under Japan's new Securities Exchange Law” (Asian Counsel February,2005 Pacific Business Press Limited)
  • “The Reality of the Japanese Legal System for Cross-Border Insolvency ～Driven by Fear of Universalism～” (Awarded the Gold Prize at the Prize in International Insolvency Studies 2011 held by the International Insolvency Institute )

Lectures

  • “Bankruptcy of J-REIT” (Institute for Financial Affairs, Mar. 2009)
  • “Impact on the financial legal practice and analysis of the issues in the bankruptcy era, and legal practice after bankruptcy” (Kinzai Institute for Financial Affairs, Inc., Feb. 2009)
  • “Real estate finance scheme and bankruptcy” (Seminar-info Co., Ltd., Feb. 2009)
  • “Structured finance in the bankruptcy era” (FN Holding, Co., Ltd. Dec. 2008)
  • “Points and issues for M&A of the real investment corporation (REIT)” (Sogo Unicom Co., Ltd., Dec. 2008)
  • “Structured finance in the bankruptcy era” (FN Holding, Co., Ltd. Nov. 2008)
  • “M&A of REIT” (FN Holding, Co., Ltd. Nov. 2008)
  • Contact Us
  • Top