Article 771Effectuation of a Share Exchange Which Causes a Limited Liability Company to Acquire the Issued Shares

①The wholly owning parent limited liability company resulting from a share exchange acquires all of the issued shares of the wholly owned subsidiary company resulting from the share exchange (excluding shares of the wholly owned subsidiary company resulting from the share exchange already held by the wholly owning parent limited liability company resulting from the share exchange) on the effective day.

②In the case set forth in the preceding paragraph, the wholly owned subsidiary company resulting from the share exchange is deemed to have given the approval set forth in Article 137, paragraph (1) with regard to the acquisition of shares of the wholly owned subsidiary company resulting from the share exchange (limited to shares with a restriction on transfer, and excluding those already held by the wholly owning parent limited liability company resulting from the share exchange prior to the effective day) by the wholly owning parent limited liability company resulting from the share exchange.

③In the case prescribed in paragraph (1), item (ii) of the preceding Article, the shareholders of the wholly owned subsidiary company resulting from the share exchange, in accordance with the provisions on the matters set forth in that item, become members of the wholly owning parent limited liability company resulting from the share exchange on the effective day. In these cases, the wholly owning parent limited liability company resulting from the share exchange is deemed to have effected changes to the articles of incorporation relating to the members set forth in that item on the effective day.

④If there are provisions on the matter set forth in paragraph (1), item (iii), (a) of the preceding Article, the shareholders of the wholly owned subsidiary company resulting from the share exchange, in accordance with the provisions on the matter set forth in item (iv) of that paragraph, become holders of bonds relevant in item (iii), (a) of that paragraph on the effective day.

⑤The provisions of the preceding paragraphs do not apply if procedures under the provisions of Article 799 (excluding paragraph (2), item (iii)) as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 802, paragraph (2) are not completed yet or where the share exchange is cancelled.