レベッカ・スウィンドルズ（ロンドンオフィス パートナー）、高橋美智留弁護士、マックスウェル A.フォックス外国法事務弁護士の論稿、「

In accordance with the Act concerning Promotion of Development of Integrated Resort Areas that we first described in our December 2016/January 2017 issue, the Council for the Promotion of the Development of Integrated Resort Areas ...

The draft Basic Policy was open for public comment through October 3, 2019. The MLIT is now considering the comments received and may make further changes to the Basic Policy

In "Japan's evolving merger reviews foreshadow both caution and hope for companies", we explore the Korean Air-Asiana merger, where the JFTC criticised the economic analysis submitted by the merging...

Mlex Insight featured a presentation by Hiroshi Yamada, former chief of investigations at the Japan Fair Trade Commission (JFTC) and an academic advisor to AlixPartners.

Digitalization. Complex supply chains.

　経済安全保障分野における新たなセキュリティ・クリアランス制度を創設する、重要経済安保情報の保護及び活用に関する法律（令和6年

On May 10, 2024, the Diet passed the Act on the Protection and Utilization of Important Economic Security Information (the "CESI Act").

令和3年度企業結合事例からは、従前の公取委の審査の傾向から不変の傾向と、やや逸脱する傾向の両方が見てとれます。

　2024年1月19日、2023年2月に設置された経済安全保障分野におけるセキュリティ・クリアランス制度等に関する有識者会議（以下「有識者会議」と

On April 1, 2020, the Act to Partially Amend the Civil Code ("Amendment") will come into effect, with some exceptions.

Japanese institutional investors have been steadily increasing their allocations to private equity, private credit, infrastructure and other private markets strategies.

Though many worry over the government's deficits and deflation in recent decades, Japan's economy seems to be progressing better than the world perceives.

Japan’s system of interlocking shareholdings is collapsing as Japan’s banks move to isolate their reported capital ratios from equity market volatility.

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.

A variety of factors have converged in recent years to cause discretionary investment managers ("DIMs") to need to provide a variety of ancillary services to their clients, particularly their international clients.