Satoru Hasumoto

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.

• 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

• 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)