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In light of a series of judgements for increased damages endorsed by the Supreme Court, Yoshinori Ono of Nishimura & Asahi offers an introduction to the position and responsibilities of directors under the Companies Act

From 1998 to 2000, the Corporate Restructuring Committee (CORC), an organisation established by 205 financial institutions pursuant to the Financial Institutions Arrangement for Facilitating Corporate Restructuring, aggressively pursued and conducted corporate restructuring in Korea (workouts), while the Financial Supervisory Commission supervised workouts of financial institutions. Upon the dissolution of the CORC in 2001, the principal creditor banks of the workout companies took the lead in corporate restructuring pursuant to the Corporate Restructuring Promotion Act (CRPA).

It may even violate the German constitution

The US changes to IFRS and fair value

Law firm strategy around the world

Hiroki Aoyama of Mori Hamada & Matsumoto outlines recent developments and legal issues, with a particular focus on hybrids that are treated as debt for tax purposes but as equity for other purposes

Under these depressed market conditions, M&A of J-Reits has been attracting attention. Nobuhiko Shimose and Yasuhiko Fujitsu of Mori Hamada & Matsumoto outline possible M&A schemes for them

After a 15-year lawmaking process, the Enterprise State-owned Assets Law (Law) was promulgated on October 28 2008 to strengthen the supervision and administration of operational state-owned assets (equities arising from capital investment by the state in enterprises, SOEs), while other types of state-owned assets such as the assets of governmental and administrative agencies and the nation's resources are regulated by other rules. The Law will come into effect on May 1 2009.

Why Spain suffered less from short selling

Regulation must be considered and not vague