The enigma of hostile takeovers in Japan: Bidder beware

• Main Authors: PUCHNIAK, Dan W., NAKAHIGASHI, Masafumi
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2017
• Subjects: Comparative Takeover Regulation; Hostile Takeovers; Comparative Corporate Governance; Shareholder Structure; Japanese Corporate Law; Corporate Culture; Dispersed Shareholders; Lifetime Employment; Asian Studies; Comparative and Foreign Law
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sol_research/3984; https://search.library.smu.edu.sg/discovery/fulldisplay?docid=alma99317812102601&context=L&vid=65SMU_INST:SMU_NUI&lang=en&search_scope=Everything&adaptor=Local%20Search%20Engine&isFrbr=true&tab=Everything&query=any,contains,Comparative%20Takeover%20Regulation:%20Global%20and%20Asian%20Perspectives&sortby=date_d&facet=frbrgroupid,include,9065816880032837088&offset=0
• Institution: Singapore Management University

For over two decades, Japan has ostensibly had all the essential elements that leading academics and sophisticated investors have assumed to be sufficient for a country to develop an active market for hostile takeovers (i.e., dispersed shareholder ownership, depressed share values, and a United King...