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Recent revisions to Japanese tender offer rules: toward transparency and fairness

  • Jones Day
  • -
  • Japan
  • -
  • June 27 2007

Japanese tender offer regulations were substantially amended in December 2006 in the wake of recent hostile-takeover activities in Japan

Japan passes amendments to the Anti-Monopoly Act to strengthen cartel enforcement and expand the scope of single-firm conduct subject to fines

  • Jones Day
  • -
  • Japan
  • -
  • June 15 2009

On June 3, 2009, the Japanese Diet passed a bill that will amend the Japanese Anti-Monopoly Act ("Amendments") to impose larger surcharges (administrative fines) on companies engaged in cartels and certain types of unilateral conduct and increased prison sentences for individuals participating in cartels

Amendment of the Anti-Monopoly Act of Japan and its impact on mergers and acquisitions

  • Jones Day
  • -
  • Japan
  • -
  • September 30 2009

On June 3, 2009, the Japanese Diet enacted a bill to amend the Act on Prohibition of Private Monopolization and Maintenance of Fair Trade (the "Anti-Monopoly Act" and, as amended, the "Amended Act"), promulgated as of June 10, 2009

Japan challenges "essential" patent licenses under Anti-monopoly Act

  • Jones Day
  • -
  • Japan
  • -
  • November 6 2009

The Japan Fair Trade Commission ("JFTC") has announced a cease and desist order requiring that Qualcomm Inc. rescind license provisions that required licensees to cross-license their patents to Qualcomm and refrain from asserting their own patents against Qualcomm or Qualcomm licensees

Japan proposes to reform JFTC hearing procedure for antitrust violations

  • Jones Day
  • -
  • Japan
  • -
  • March 25 2010

The Japanese government has proposed significant changes to the procedures for challenging orders issued for antitrust violations by the Japanese Fair Trade Commission (JFTC

Japanese Cabinet approves Basic Anti-Global Warming Law

  • Jones Day
  • -
  • Japan
  • -
  • April 13 2010

On March 12, 2010, the Cabinet of the Japanese Prime Minister, Yukio Hatoyama, approved the Basic Anti-Global Warming Law

Overseas protectionist policy

  • Jones Day
  • -
  • Japan, USA
  • -
  • August 14 2009

Starting with the subprime crisis, the world economy has been plunged into a "once in a hundred years" economic crisis

JFTC issues draft guidelines on the prohibition of abuse of a superior bargaining position under the Japan Anti-Monopoly Act

  • Jones Day
  • -
  • Japan
  • -
  • August 20 2010

The Japan Fair Trade Commission (JFTC) has issued draft guidelines on enforcement of the prohibition on abuse of a superior bargaining position, which long has been a violation of Japan's "Anti-Monopoly Law" (AML) and has been enforced mostly through the Japanese administrative guidance system

Tax treatment of stock options issued by "specified multinational enterprises"

  • Jones Day
  • -
  • Japan
  • -
  • September 12 2011

The latest tax reform bill provides that certain multinational companiesthose that make their subsidiary in Japan serve as either a center for their R&D business or their headquarters in Asia that controls their other subsidiaries in Asiaare eligible for special tax treatment

Form 7-2 filing requirements amended

  • Jones Day
  • -
  • Japan
  • -
  • September 12 2011

Effective April 6, 2011, the Financial Instruments and Exchange Act of Japan was revised to expand the scope of an exemption from the requirement for an issuer to file a Securities Registration Statement ("SRS") (Form 7-2) in connection with a stock option grant

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