Sachiko Bussey

PARTNER
San Francisco

English

日本語

About Sachiko Bussey

With experience at several premier global law firms, Sachiko Bussey has spent her career focused on Japan-related business transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, intellectual property matters, and corporate finance, while based in Tokyo and San Francisco/Silicon Valley.

In addition to her law firm experience, Ms. Bussey has served as internal counsel for a U.S. subsidiary of a major Japanese company. She is often called upon by clients to review, analyze, and summarize Japanese-language contracts and other complex documents and to prepare legal memoranda in English and Japanese. Ms. Bussey has also served as an interpreter in international arbitrations.

Ms. Bussey was a monthly columnist for Gekkan Shiho Kaikaku (Monthly Journal of Judicial Reform), which is published in Japan. She also speaks on U.S.-Japan legal issues and has been a guest speaker at Waseda University in Tokyo, addressing the U.S. legal system and education.

Contact: sbussey@gammalaw.com

Clients rely on Ms. Bussey for her rare ability to bridge the U.S.–Japan legal divide — particularly her fluency in both languages and legal systems.

Areas of Focus

  • Japan-related business transactions
  • Mergers & acquisitions
  • Intellectual property matters
  • Corporate finance
  • Contract review, analysis & summarization (Japanese-language documents)
  • Legal memoranda preparation
    (English and Japanese)
  • International arbitration (interpreter services)
LANGUAGES SPOKEN
  • Japanese (native)
  • English
BAR ADMISSIONS
  • New York
EDUCATION

JD

  • Boston College Law School

BA

  • University of California, Berkeley, BA
PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND

PREVIOUS

  • Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP
  • Squire Sanders & Dempsey LLP