In February 2013, we reported on legislative momentum in the Japanese Diet to bring Japan’s sixty-year-old election laws into the brave new world of Web 2.0. On April 19, 2013, that reform effort came to fruition, when a bill...more
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...more
12/4/2012