So & Sato Law Offices

Private equity, venture capital, emerging companies, corporate M&A, international disputes

October 2023 So Sato Law Office (Senior Advisor) - Tokyo

November 2022 BGC Godo Kaisha (Founder/Director) - Tokyo

March 2018 - May 2019 Cogito Optical Technology Company (Advisor to CEO), Beijing

March 2005 - Tiger Capital Partners (Founder/Principal) – London/Beijing

January 1999 - May 2004 Yuasa and Hara (Foreign Counsel) , Tokyo

September 2012 - February 2018 Perkins Coie (Asia Director of Business Development / Special Counsel), Beijing / Shanghai

August 2000 - September 2003 Temple University Law School Japan (Adjunct Professor), Tokyo

February 1998 - October 1998 Tokyo Aoyama/Baker & McKenzie (Associate Attorney), Tokyo

English, Japanese, Mandarin

1988 - The State Bar of California

1988 - California State and U.S. Federal District Courts and California Court of Appeals, 2nd District

1998 - 2004 Daiichi Tokyo Bar Association, as a foreign lawyer

2012 - 2018 China Ministry of Justice, as a foreign lawyer (inactivated)

1988 Loyola Law School, J.D.

1982 University of California, Los Angeles, B.A.