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  • Corporate scandals have forced Japan to tighten reporting obligations for large shareholdings. But it might have gone too far. By Hirohito Akagami and Atsutoshi Maeda of Anderson Mori & Tomotsune
  • Oji Paper's bid for rival Hokuetsu breaches a Japanese taboo on hostile takeovers. It has also prompted some extraordinary, perhaps illogical, defence tactics. Is this the shape of things to come?
  • Recent revisions to the large shareholdings reporting system have introduced more frequent and stringent disclosure requirements for investors. The revised Securities and Exchange Law (SEL), its enforcement order and the cabinet ordinance with respect to this system came into effect, with some exceptions, on December 13 2006.
  • The acquisition of a qualifying direct or indirect holding in a Czech bank, representing more than 20% of the bank's capital or voting rights, requires the approval of the Czech National Bank (CNB), the Czech financial market supervisory body. On April 1 2006, a new CNB decree was introduced, stipulating the essential elements of applications and notifications to CNB.
  • Rolling old deals: the new fashion
  • Securitization
  • Hostile takeovers
  • Management buyouts
  • Adam Wiseberg and Kei Ito of Nishimura & Partners compare Japan's new securities law with its US counterpart, contemplating what would happen if US federal securities law applied
  • Akimitsu Kamori of Blakemore & Mitsuki analyses the Dowa Model and outlines measures to enforce takeover defences