Takeshige Sugimoto is the founder of both S&K Brussels LPC, S&K Brussels BV and S&K Brussels LPC where he serves as Managing Director and Partner. His expertise spans data protection, privacy law, and AI regulation, with a focus on the US, EU, India and Japan. Mr. Sugimoto is qualified to practice law in Japan and New York and is a member of the Brussels Bar Association (B-List), the New York State Bar Association, and the Dai-ichi Tokyo Bar Association. He divides his time between the firm's offices in Tokyo, New York, and Brussels.

As a data protection specialist, Take's practice includes the establishment and review of clients' data protection compliance systems; representation and defense in disputes involving international data protection law issues, including class actions and negotiations with European, UK, US and Japanese data protection supervisory authorities; data protection in M&A transactions. He also advises clients on a wide range of issues, including the assessment and establishment of data protection compliance systems during due diligence and post-M&A PMI phases and data protection in relation to cutting-edge technologies and services (e.g., IoT, connected cars, MaaS, AI). He also advises on various regulations regarding generative AI, including copyright law and data protection laws.

Take has also successfully negotiated with European data protection supervisory authorities (the Spanish data protection supervisory authority (AEPD), and the data protection supervisory authority of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany), representing clients in the approval of EU Binding Corporate Rules (BCRs) and Processor BCRs under the GDPR, following the European Data Protection Board's (EDPB) opinion on the respective authorities' draft approval decisions for 2021.

In addition to his work at the firm, Mr. Sugimoto is a co-founder of Japan DPO Association, where he currently serves as Secretary General.