Starting with the subprime crisis, the world economy has been plunged into a "once in a hundred years" economic crisis. With the United States as the epicenter, the U.S., Europe, Japan, and China are creating demand for goods and services through large-scale government spending in order to cover the sudden shrinkage in demand.

As outlined above, the Amendments will significantly tighten regulations on managers of funds marketed to Japanese investors.

With the prevailing low interest rates, Japanese asset allocators have increasingly turned to offshore investment funds for target returns

Following the publication of a policy framework establishing margin requirements for non-centrally cleared derivatives agreed by the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision and the International Organisation of Securities Commissions, . . .

The corporate value study group, comprising leading scholars and practitioners and orchestrated by the Ministry of Trade, Economy and Industry of Japan ("METI"), has recently issued a report on takeover defense measures (the "2008 Report").

Japanese investors are progressively increasing their exposure to private equity, infrastructure, real estate and other alternative asset classes.

Until 2022, the COVID-19 pandemic was one of the significant concerns in the Japanese financial market. However, from 8 May 2023...

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On June 5, 2020, the Diet of Japan adopted several amendments to the Payment Services Act (Act No. 59 of June 24, 2009) (the "PSA"). The amendments include reforms of the licensing/registration system...

The leveraged buyout market in Japan has remained active throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. Recent transactions include a number of divestitures or carve-outs by Japanese conglomerates of their assets...

On May 15, 2024, the Diet passed into law amendments to the Financial Instruments and Exchange Act (the "FIEA") (the "Amendments").

Procedures began in April 2016 for the long awaited listing of the first infrastructure fund on the Tokyo Stock Exchange targeted at investments in renewable energy plants...

On June 1 2023, the amended Payment Services Act (the "PSA" or "amended PSA") went into effect along with the Cabinet Office Ordinance on Electronic Payment Instruments...

Lately, global-level issues and the UN's 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) that indicate the goals for solving these issues have been drawing more attention.

Previously, Japanese labor laws and regulations required employers to pay wages to their workers only in cash or by transfer into the workers' bank accounts or other similar accounts at financial...

A bill amending the Financial Instruments and Exchange Act, the main statute codifying securities laws and regulating securities companies in Japan, including new rules requiring fair information disclosure..

Do foreign lenders (including non-bank foreign lenders) require a licence/regulatory approval to lend into your jurisdiction or take the benefit of security over assets located in your jurisdiction?

On May 31, 2004, the Fair Trade Commission of Japan (the "JFTC") published new "Guidelines on the Application of the Anti Monopoly Act to Reviewing Business Combination" (<I>Kigyo Ketsugo Shinsa ni Kansuru Dokusenkinshiho no Unyou Shishin</I>) ("New Guidelines").

Despite the substantial amount of lip service being paid to the revitalizing role that could be played by mergers and acquisitions, the fact is that Japan remains a significantly under-developed market for public M&A activity. Year-on-year change rates are high but M&A as well as inward FDI are miniscule compared to other major OECD nations.

On May 15, 2024, the Diet passed into law amendments to the Financial Instruments and Exchange Act (the "FIEA") (the "Amendments"). While the Amendments contain many important measures, one of the noteworthy measures...