HIDEHIKO SUZUKI
Hidehiko Suzuki specializes in corporate legal affairs, such as bank transactions, finance transactions (ECA finance, aircraft/ship and other asset finance, project finance, etc.), insurance (insurance business law, insurance law, reinsurance contracts, etc.), patent rights and other intellectual property rights (such as litigation and dispute resolution). In the area of asset finance, he continued to receive “Tier 1” ratings until 2018 from rating agencies such as Chambers and Legal 500.
- Profession
- Attorney at Law
- Admissions
- Japan (1989)
- Membership
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Daini Tokyo Bar Association
- Professional Experience
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2026 – Present – Sonderhoff & Einsel Law Office
2019 – 2025 – Sonderhoff & Einsel Law and Patent Office
2002 – 2019 – Clifford Chance
1989 – 2002 – Nakagawa Godo Law Office
2006 – 2009 – Supreme Court, Legal Training and Research Institute of Japan, Professor (Civil Procedures)
1993 – 1996 – Supreme Court, Legal Training and Research Institute of Japan, Assistant Professor (Civil Procedures)
- Education
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1985-1987 – Waseda University Graduate School of Law (Doctoral course)
1985 – Waseda University Graduate School of Law (Master)
1982 – Waseda University School of Law
- Publications
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“Theory and Practice of Aircraft Finance” (Nos. 1994 – 1996, The Financial Law Journal, 2014)
- Lectures
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“Documentation and Repossession in Aircraft Lease Transactions” (SeminarInfo) May 14, 2025
“Documentation and Repossession in Aircraft Lease Transactions” (SeminarInfo) May 29, 2024
“Documentation and Repossession in Aircraft Lease Transactions” (Financial Facsimile Newspaper) February 18, 2021
“Documentation in Aircraft Lease Transactions” (SeminarInfo) January 21, 2020
“Issues in Repossession in Aircraft Finance” (SeminarInfo) October 31, 2018
“Practice of Aircraft Finance” (SeminarInfo) December 6, 2017
- Languages
- Japanese, English