Masatomo Suzuki (Tomo)
Partner
Tokyo
Tel: 81.3.6800.1817
Fax: 81.3.5401.2725
Email:
msuzuki@jonesday.com
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Tomo Suzuki has a broad range of experience in real estate transactions, representing major Japanese real estate companies as well as foreign companies involved in real estate transactions in Japan. He is head of the real estate practice in the Tokyo Office, and as such he leads a team of lawyers working on securitization/liquidation of real estate assets for foreign real estate investment funds. His experience covers a wide range of real estate properties from office, commercial, and residential buildings to shopping centers and hotels.
He also counsels on corporate and regulatory matters, including joint ventures, licensing and distributorship contracts, and mergers and acquisitions, representing Japanese domestic corporations dealing with foreign entities and foreign corporations doing business in Japan. In addition, he has a great deal of experience in international litigation and arbitration.
Tomo was a lecturer at Keio University, Law Faculty from 1991 to 1998 teaching civil code (general theory and real estate). In addition, he has been lecturing at Keio Law School on international transaction and lawyers' ethics since 2005.
Prior to joining Jones Day, Tomo was a senior partner of the Showa Law Office from 1985 to 2001.
Admitted
Japan
Education
Keio University (LL.B. 1973; LL.M. 1977); The Legal Training and Research Institute of the Supreme Court of Japan (1979); University of Pennsylvania (LL.M. 1983)
Languages
English, Japanese