KARASHIMA Satoshi
- Title
- Partner
- Bar Association
- Daini Tokyo Bar Association
- Languages
- Japanese (native)/English
- Telephone Number
- +81-3-3214-6227
- E-mail address
- satoshi.karashima@iwatagodo.com
Practice Areas
Engaged Cases
・Advice on the Take-Private Transaction of a Listed Company through MBO/LBO by the Founding Family (2024)
・Advice on the Sale of four domestic and overseas subsidiaries by a Japanese company (2024)
・Advice to Japanese companies in dealing with activist shareholders (2022)
・Advice on listing a foreign-affiliated broadcasting and communication company on the Tokyo Stock Exchange (2005)
・Advice on a Tender Offer for a Japanese Listed Company by a U.S. Company (2003)
Career Summary
- November 1965
- Born in Kumamoto Prefecture, Japan
- March 1984
- Graduated from Kumamoto High School
- March 1989
- Received his LL.B. from Waseda University
- March 1993
- Received his Diploma from the Legal Training and Research Institute of the Supreme Court of Japan (45th)
- April 1993
- Registered as a Japanese attorney
- 1993-2003
- Served at Asahi Law Offices (Present: Nishimura & Asahi) (Served as Partner from 2001)
- May 1997
- Received his LL.M. degree from Columbia University School of Law
- 1998
- Admitted to the New York State Bar Association
- 2003-2010
- Served as Partner at Latham & Watkins Gaikokuho Joint Enterprise
- 2010-2020
- Served as In-house Counsel at a major Japanese securities firm
- 2018-
- Appointed as Member of International Committee of the Daini Tokyo Bar Association
- April 2020
- Joined Iwata Godo
List of Main Publications
・6,000 Lectures on Legal Issues for Financial Institutions (co-author, Kinzai Institute For Financial Affairs, 2022)
・Expansion of stock options and practice for the issuance of new shares under the revised law (co-author, Chuokeizai-sha, Inc, 2002)
・Private equity in Japan (co-author, Nikkei Inc, 2001)
・All about company split (co-author, Chuokeizai-sha, Inc, 2000)
Publications
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202402
Karashima Satoshi authors "Partial Spin-Off: METI Approves Sony's Corporate Restructuring Plan Under the Act on Strengthening Industrial Competitiveness" (Shoji Homu Portal website)
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- KARASHIMA Satoshi
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202309
Karashima Satoshi authors a commentary on METI's best practices guidelines for M&A (Shoji Homu Portal website)
- Author：
- KARASHIMA Satoshi
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202303
Karashima Satoshi authors a commentary on the Disclosure Working Group Report of the FSA's Financial Advisory Council (Shoji Homu Portal website)
- Author：
- KARASHIMA Satoshi
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202209
Karashima Satoshi authored a commentary on the provisional injunction against the transfer of Shidax shares held by a Unison Capital fund (Shoji Homu Portal website)
- Author：
- KARASHIMA Satoshi
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202202
Karashima Satoshi's commentary on the 5th Meeting of the Working Group on Corporate Disclosure of the FSA's Financial System Council is available on the Shoji Homu Portal Site.
- Author：
- KARASHIMA Satoshi
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202108
Karashima Satoshi's commentary titled "euglena Co., Ltd. Releases Notice Regarding Decision on Date and Time of Extraordinary General Meeting of Shareholders (Virtual Only General Meeting of Shareholders) and Partial Amendment of Articles of Incorporation” is available on the Shoji Homu Portal Site.
- Author：
- KARASHIMA Satoshi
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202101
Karashima Satoshi's commentary titled "The Working Group on Market System under the Financial System Council Publicizes the First Report: Toward the Realization of an International Financial Center that is Open to the World" is available on the Shoji Homu Portal Site.
- Author：
- KARASHIMA Satoshi
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News
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202004
We welcomed a new special counsel , Noguchi Motoo , and a new counsel , Karashima Satoshi. We welcomed a new attorney, Ishikawa Teppei.
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