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Excerpts from the Deloitte report (link below): Many issues compete for a place at the top of a company’s list of governance priorities,including the potential expansion of shareholder rights, regulatory demands for enhanced disclosure, and the oversight of risk management. However, we would argue there is no higher governance priority than ensuring you have the right people on the board.
Freshfield's Guide for Directors of Subsidiary Companies in Japan is well worth reading if you are adirector on a subsidiary company board and have never learned much about your duties and responsibilities under Japanese law.
Freshfields Bruckhous Deringer has produceda useful short memo summarizing the impact of the decision by the Japanese Supreme Court earlier this year regarding the appraisal rights (to receive a fair price) of an objecting shareholder in a demerger.
The followingentry appeared as part of GovernanceMetrics International’s GMI Blog. GMI is the leading independent provider of global corporate governance and ESG ratings and research. Corporate stakeholders – including leading investors, insurers, auditors, regulators and others – use GovernanceMetrics services to identify and monitor risks related to non-financial measures covering key environmental, social, governance and […]
The followingentry appeared as part of GovernanceMetrics International’s GMI Blog. GMI is the leading independent provider of global corporate governance and ESG ratings and research. Corporate stakeholders – including leading investors, insurers, auditors, regulators and others – use GovernanceMetrics services to identify and monitor risks related to non-financial measures covering key environmental, social, governance and […]
Professor Colin P.A. Jones, Doshisha University Law School
In the legal universe, municipal regulation and corporate governance occupy different solar systems. This may explain why few people orbiting the sun of Japanese corporate governance may have noticed the potential significance of Tokyo’s prefectural Anti-Violent Crime Group ordinance, which was passed on March 18, 2011 and comes into force on October 1.
I thought it might be illuminating to others if I wrote down why I founded BDTI, why it is a nonprofit organization, and why I donated a large portion of my wealth to it.
Just for fun, here are some simple questions. I betmore than halfof the directors on Japanese public company boards cannot answer all 10questions correctly.
If you sit on the board of a private company in Japan, and you don't know the answers, you too may need to worry about what else you don't know.
1) How is the duty of due care interpreted in Japanese courts?What is the business judgment rule and how is it interpreted?