Tokyo-based Morrison & Foerster partner, Yuka Teraguchi, and Eriko Suzuki, Managing Director of MPower Partners, are featured in the latest edition of the HEDGE GUIDE discussing gender equality.

On January 31, 2007, the Japan Fair Trade Commission published for public comment a draft of the revised "Guidelines on the Application of the Anti-Monopoly Act to Reviewing Business Combination".

The Anti-Avoidance Rule authorizes tax authorities to disallow a taxpayer's act or calculation if "the corporate tax burden is determined to have been unduly decreased" due to reorganization transactions...

On January 1, 2010, amendments to the Japanese Anti-Monopoly Act (the "AMA") that substantially revise Japan’s pre-merger notification system came into effect.

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In contrast, the decision did not give special consideration to the fact that the employee was a doctor in deciding the extra pay issue.

On March 21, 2025, the Financial Services Agency released a proposal for revisions to the Principles)...

The amendment to the Financial Instruments and Exchange Act ("Amended FIEA") was enacted on May 17, 2017, and promulgated on May 24, 2017.

On December 15, 2023, the Working Group on the Tender Offer System and Large Shareholding Reporting System, etc. issued the "Report of the Working Group...

The Amendment will come into force on or before May 17, 2020, the exact date to be specified by a Cabinet Order.

On May 27, 2020, the Japanese parliament passed the "Act on Improvement of Transparency and Fairness in Trading on Specified Digital Platforms

In April 2022, the Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE) implemented changes to market classifications in order to clarify the concept of each classification and to motivate companies...

On December 22, 2017, the Japanese Cabinet approved the 2018 Tax Reform Proposal.

Offshore vehicles, principally formed in the Cayman Islands, have for some time been used in Japan to facilitate the issuance of a wide variety of debt and equity instruments, bonds and other types of products.

The amendment to the Payment Services Act ("PSA") of Japan took effect in May 2021, removing the current numerical transfer cap placed on fund transfer services by nonbank institutions.

Effective on October 31, 2012, the Financial Services Agency of Japan ("FSA") amended the Japanese tender offer rules and introduced a new exemption for acquisition of shares made through a proprietary trading system ("PTS").

At the time of its launch, Japan's first ESG-focused venture capital fund MPower Partners Fund, established by former Goldman Sachs vice-chair Kathy Matsui and sized at US$150 million, ...