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MEDIROM Healthcare Technologies Inc. Reports Financial Results for the Six Months Ended June 30, 2023 and Provides Corporate Update New York - December 29, 2023...

The Fair Trade Commission has ordered three major regional utilities to pay record fines of about 101 billion yen ($757 million) in total for forming cartels that eliminated competition for corporate customers. 

J Ryan Dwyer III, Tsuguhito Omagari and Andrea Ng, K&L Gates

This article highlights the key features of the legal framework governing mergers and acquisitions of publicly listed companies in Japan, including filing and disclosure requirements.

The "Act on Prohibition of Private Monopolization and Maintenance of Fair Trade" (Law No. 54 of 1947), commonly known as the "Antimonopoly Act" (the "AMA")...

March 16 2021 The Japanese M&A market in 2020, like markets globally, was deeply impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. Notably, there was a dramatic decrease in outbound deal volume with Japanese corporations instead focusing on the domestic market. Japanese companies continued the trend of shedding non-core assets and consolidating their businesses. According to data from Dealogic, Japans M&A deal volume in 2020 fell to 538 total transactions, with a total deal value of ov...