LAWYERS
TAKEO KOSUGI
Takeo KOSUGI is one of the named partners of Matsuo & Kosugi and has been with the firm almost since its inception. Currently, Kosugi is a senior counsel of Matsuo & Kosugi.
Prior to joining M&K, Kosugi first worked as a court judge in Japan where, for six years, he presided over a variety of civil, criminal and family law matters. After six years of sitting on the Osaka and Kushiro district courts, Kosugi made the decision to enter private practice.
After leaving the judiciary, Kosugi then went on to complete his LLM at Harvard Law School where he was also invited to study for an additional year as a visiting scholar in the East Asian Studies program. Upon completion of his studies at Harvard, Kosugi interned at a law firm in Paris and Milbank LLP in New York before returning to Japan and joining the firm that eventually became Matsuo & Kosugi. Based on these experiences, Kosugi has amassed extensive experience in a variety of Japanese, foreign and international legal fields, such as international arbitrations, domestic and international lawsuits, bankruptcy cases, cross-border litigations and cross-border insolvency cases. In addition, Kosugi routinely handles corporate legal issues such as M&As, international business transactions and the drafting of various contracts based on his experiences of having been a trustee in corporate reorganization cases as well as having acted as an outside director and outside corporate auditor for various companies.
As the chairman of LAWASIA and a director of the International Civil and Commercial Law Centre Foundation, Kosugi has built and maintained a close network of lawyers and various organizations in China and other Asian countries.
Prior to joining M&K, Kosugi first worked as a court judge in Japan where, for six years, he presided over a variety of civil, criminal and family law matters. After six years of sitting on the Osaka and Kushiro district courts, Kosugi made the decision to enter private practice.
After leaving the judiciary, Kosugi then went on to complete his LLM at Harvard Law School where he was also invited to study for an additional year as a visiting scholar in the East Asian Studies program. Upon completion of his studies at Harvard, Kosugi interned at a law firm in Paris and Milbank LLP in New York before returning to Japan and joining the firm that eventually became Matsuo & Kosugi. Based on these experiences, Kosugi has amassed extensive experience in a variety of Japanese, foreign and international legal fields, such as international arbitrations, domestic and international lawsuits, bankruptcy cases, cross-border litigations and cross-border insolvency cases. In addition, Kosugi routinely handles corporate legal issues such as M&As, international business transactions and the drafting of various contracts based on his experiences of having been a trustee in corporate reorganization cases as well as having acted as an outside director and outside corporate auditor for various companies.
As the chairman of LAWASIA and a director of the International Civil and Commercial Law Centre Foundation, Kosugi has built and maintained a close network of lawyers and various organizations in China and other Asian countries.
| Education & Legal Training | [March 1966:]
The University of Tokyo, Faculty of Law [April 1968:] Graduated from the Legal Training and Research Institute [June 1972:] Harvard Law School, LL.M. [September 1974:] Visiting scholar at the Harvard Law School, East Asian Studies Program |
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| Professional Carriers | [April 1968:]
Osaka District Court, Assistant Judge [September 1972:] Kushiro District & Family Court, Assistant Judge [March 1974:] Left judicial office to enter private practice [April 1974:] Registered as an attorney-at-law with the Tokyo Bar Association [June 1974:] Joined the Matsuo Law Offices (currently, Matsuo & Kosugi) [August 1975:] Trainee at Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP in New York From August to [October 1976:] Trainee at S.G. Archibald in Paris |
| Official Positions | [From 1980 to 1985:]
Instructor, Transnational Legal Cases, Legal Training and Research Institute [1982:] Member, Council for Basic Issues regarding Oil Development under the auspices of the Resources and Energy Agency, Ministry of International Trade and Industry [1982:] Member, Council for Basic Issues regarding Construction Project in Foreign Countries, Ministry of Construction [From 1986 to 1990:] Executive Member, Conflict of Laws Division, Legislative Council of the Ministry of Justice [From 1993 to 2000:] Instructor, University of Tsukuba, Graduate School of Management Science and Public Policy Studies in the study of international economic law [From 1996:] Executive Auditor, Japan Association of Financial Law [From 1996:] Director, International Civil and Commercial Centre (ICCLC) [1996:] Instructor, Waseda University, Graduate School of Law, in the study of United States civil procedure [From 1997 to 1999:] President, LAWASIA (The Law Association for Asia and the Pacific) [From September 2001:] Director, Japanese American Society for Legal Studies [From 1999 to September 2008:] Public Interest Member, Central Labour Relations Commission for Seafarers [From January 2007 to September 2008:] President, Central Labour Relations Commission for Seafarers [From March, 2009 to March, 2011:] Member, Council for Transport Policy, Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism [From June 2017:] President, Friends of LAWASIA Association in Japan |
| Major Books and Articles | Collected Works Vol. I: “American Society and Law” (Commercial Law Center, Inc., 1995)
Collected Works Vol. II: “Internationalization of Legal Services” (Commercial Law Center, Inc., 1995) Collected Works Vol. III: “Laws in the Era of Asia” (Commercial Law Center, Inc., 1999) Co-editor: “Reading People’s Daily Articles – China’s eighteen years to build new legislations” (Shinzansha, December 2004) Co-editor: “The Decision Making of the United States Supreme Court 1993-2005” (University of Tokyo Press, 2007) Joint-translation: David G. Epstein’s “Debtor-Creditor Law in a Nutshell 2nd edition” (Commercial Law Center, Inc., 1984) |
| Major Areas of Practice | Corporate, International Business Transactions, Domestic & International Bankruptcy, Litigation, Arbitration |