A stock company must specify the persons from among the applicants the persons to whom share options for subscription will be allotted, and determine the number of share options for subscription to be allotted to those persons. In these cases, the stock company may reduce the number of share options for subscription the stock company allots to these applicants below the number under paragraph (2), item (ii) of the preceding Article.
In the following cases, the determination under the provisions of the preceding paragraph must be made by a resolution at a shareholders meeting (or at a board of directors meeting for a company with board of directors); provided, however, that this does not apply if it is otherwise provided for in the articles of incorporation:
if some or all of the shares underlying the share options for subscription are shares with restriction on transfer; or
if the share options for subscription are share options with restriction on transfer (meaning share options for which it is provided that the acquisition of relevant share options by transfer requires the approval of the stock company; hereinafter the same applies in this Chapter).
The stock company must notify the applicants, no later than the day immediately preceding the day of allotment, of the number of the share options for subscription that will be allotted to relevant applicants (if relevant share options for subscription are attached to bonds with share option, including a description of the classes of bonds with respect to relevant bonds with share option and the total amount of money for each class of bonds).
If the stock company has granted entitlement to the allotment of share options pursuant to the provisions of Article 241 to its shareholders, if the shareholders do not submit, no later than the date under paragraph (1), item (ii) of that Article, applications under paragraph (2) of the preceding Article, relevant shareholders will lose the entitlement to the allotment of share options for subscription.
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(Cases Where Entitlement to Allotment of Share Options Is Granted to Shareholders)
In carrying out solicitation under Article 238, paragraph (1), the stock company may grant entitlement to the allotment of share options to its shareholders.
株式会社は、第二百三十八条第一項の募集において、株主に新株予約権の割当てを受ける権利を与えることができる。この場合においては、募集事項のほか、次に掲げる事項を定めなければならない。
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the day for the application for subscription for the share options for subscription referred to in the preceding item.
前号の募集新株予約権の引受けの申込みの期日
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A person who applies to subscribe for the share options for subscription in response to solicitation in Article 238, paragraph (1) must deliver a document giving the following information:
第二百三十八条第一項の募集に応じて募集新株予約権の引受けの申込みをする者は、次に掲げる事項を記載した書面を株式会社に交付しなければならない。
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the number of share options for subscription for which the person intends to subscribe.
引き受けようとする募集新株予約権の数
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A stock company must specify the persons from among the applicants the persons to whom share options for subscription will be allotted, and determine the number of share options for subscription to…
株式会社は、申込者の中から募集新株予約権の割当てを受ける者を定め、かつ、その者に割り当てる募集新株予約権の数を定めなければならない。この場合において、株式会社は、当該申込者に割り当てる募集新株予約権の数を、前条第二項第二号の数よりも減少することができる。
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「取締役会設置会社」
A stock company that has a board of directors, or that this Act requires to have one.
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (1), item (vii)· applies throughout the law
shares with restriction on transfer
「譲渡制限株式」
Shares whose terms require the company's approval for anyone to acquire them by transfer.
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (1), item (xvii)· applies throughout the law
share option
「新株予約権」
A right that entitles its holder, by exercising it against a stock company, to receive shares of that company.
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (1), item (xxi)· applies throughout the law
bonds with share options
「新株予約権付社債」
A bond with share options attached to it.
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (1), item (xxii)· applies throughout the law
bond
「社債」
A money claim against a company, arising from an allotment the company makes under this Act, that is to be repaid according to the terms set under Article 676.
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (1), item (xxiii)· applies throughout the law
share options for subscription
「募集新株予約権」
Share options that a stock company allots to the persons who applied for them in response to its invitation to subscribe.
Defined inArticle 238, paragraph (1)· applies only in this chapter
day of allotment
「割当日」
The day on which shares for subscription, or share options for subscription, are allotted to the persons who applied for them.
Short name set inArticle 238, paragraph (1), item (iv)· applies only in this section
applicants
「申込者」
A person who has applied to subscribe for share options for subscription offered by a stock company.
Short name set inArticle 242, paragraph (5)· applies only in this subsection
share options with restriction on transfermachine translation
「譲渡制限新株予約権」
Share options whose terms require the company's approval for anyone to acquire them by transfer.
Defined inArticle 243, paragraph (2), item (ii)· applies only in this chapter
articles of incorporation
定款
A company's own basic rules, written by its founders when it is formed: at least its purpose, its trade name, where its head office is, the value of the property contributed at incorporation and who the founders are (Companies Act, Article 27). A stock company's must be certified by a notary before it takes effect (Article 30, paragraph (1)), and can later be changed by a resolution of the shareholders meeting (Article 466). Many rules in the Act apply "unless the articles of incorporation provide otherwise", so a company's articles decide a great deal of how the Act applies to it.
Written by AI using Companies Act, Arts. 26, 27, 30, 466, 575 as a reference.
board of directors
取締役会
The body made up of all of a stock company's directors (Companies Act, Article 362, paragraph (1)). It decides how the company's business is carried out, supervises the directors, and appoints and removes the representative directors (代表取締役) (Article 362, paragraphs (2) and (3)) — except in a company with a nominating committee and the other committees (指名委員会等設置会社), where it appoints representative executive officers (代表執行役) instead (Articles 416 and 420). Some decisions, such as disposing of important assets or borrowing a large amount, it normally may not hand to the directors (Article 362, paragraph (4)). A company with an audit and supervisory committee (監査等委員会設置会社) can hand more of them to directors (Article 399-13, paragraphs (5) and (6)), and a company with the committees hands them to executive officers (執行役) rather than directors (Article 416, paragraphs (3) and (4)). A company chooses in its articles of incorporation whether to have one (Article 326, paragraph (2)), but a public company (公開会社), among others, must (Article 327, paragraph (1)): a public company is one whose articles of incorporation let at least some of its shares change hands without the company's approval (Article 2, item (v)). A company with a board must have at least three directors (Article 331, paragraph (5)).
Written by AI using Companies Act, Arts. 2, 326, 327, 331, 362, 399-13, 416, 420 as a reference.
shareholders meeting
株主総会
The meeting of a stock company's shareholders, and the body through which they decide the company's basic matters. It elects the directors and company auditors (Companies Act, Article 329, paragraph (1)) and changes the articles of incorporation (Article 466). In a company without a board of directors it may decide any matter about the company; in one with a board, only what the Act or the articles of incorporation leave to it (Article 295). An annual shareholders meeting must be called after the end of every business year, and another may be called whenever needed (Article 296). A resolution normally passes by a majority of the votes present, with holders of a majority of the votes entitled to vote attending (Article 309, paragraph (1)).
Written by AI using Companies Act, Arts. 295, 296, 309, 329, 466 as a reference.