Biography
Satoru Hasumoto has led domestic and foreign real estate transactions, construction projects, fund formations, and project financing deals — with recent work focusing on the areas of cross-border transactions involving data centers for international operators and investors; hotels and logistics facilities for foreign investors; and U.S. and Australian real estate investments.
Satoru has not only handled numerous data center projects, but also contributed to the development and rule-making of the practice in Japan — striving to propose innovative structures that are not bound by conventional approaches, and respond to the clients’ requirements.
Satoru has not only handled numerous data center projects, but also contributed to the development and rule-making of the practice in Japan — striving to propose innovative structures that are not bound by conventional approaches, and respond to the clients’ requirements.
Key practice areas
Recent case highlights
- Hankyu Hanshin Real Property’s Real Estate investment in Australia
- Advising a Japanese real estate developer for its formation of a joint venture to develop a data center in Japan
- Advising a US based data center operator for its 45MW data center in Japan
- Advising a US based real estate developer for its entry of a hyper scale data center lease agreement with an Australia based data center operator
- Advising a Singapore based data center operator for its construction of a data center in Japan and formation of a joint venture
- Advising Double Dragon for its development of Niseko hotel
- Construction of Google’s first Japan data center in Inzai
- Advising Mitsui for its establishment of US senior living fund
- Advising GIC in relation to the formation of a data center joint venture with Equinix
Academic qualifications
- Keio University (LL.B., 2007)
- seconded to the IB Products Group of Mizuho Securities Co., Ltd. (2013-2014)
- The University of Pennsylvania Law School (LL.M., Wharton Business and Law Certificate, 2015)
- Slaughter and May, London (2015-2016)
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Japan