Takeshige Sugimoto

Takeshige (“Take”) Sugimoto is the Managing Director and Partner of S&K Brussels LPC, a Japanese boutique law firm specializing in data protection, privacy laws, and AI regulations in the US, EU, UK, China, and Japan. He is qualified to practice law in Japan and New York State and is a member of the Brussels Bar Association (B-List). He is a Senior Fellow with the Future of Privacy Forum, and also serves as the Director of the Japan DPO Association, which he co-founded.

Take’s data protection practice includes the establishment and review of clients’ global data protection compliance systems; representation and defense in disputes involving global data protection law issues, including but not limited to negotiations with European, UK, US, Chinese and Japanese data protection supervisory authorities. As a Japanese lawyer, he regularly advises various clients on Japan’s Act on the Protection of Personal Information (APPI), taking into account his paralleled ongoing practical experiences with the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), UK GDPR, US California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) / Consumer Privacy Rights Act (CPRA), and China’s Personal Information Protection Law (PIPL).

Take has assisted a number of clients in complying with China’s data-related laws, including the PIPL, Data Security Law, and Cybersecurity Law. His ongoing work includes helping clients carry out personal information protection impact assessment under the PIPL, preparing PIPL-compliant consent forms, personal information entrustment addendums, data transfer agreements (SCCs), guidance on data protection management systems, internal security rules, privacy policies, data subject rights request manuals, personal information breach response manuals, and handling large data mapping projects in bilingual languages in collaboration with major Chinese law firms.

Take received an LL.B. degree from Keio University, Faculty of Law in 2004; an LL.M. degree from the University of Chicago Law School in 2012; and an MJur degree from the University of Oxford, Faculty of Law (Pembroke College) in 2013.