If a stock company effects entity conversion, holders of share options of the stock company effecting entity conversion may demand that the stock company purchase, at a fair price, the share options that they hold.
If holders of the share options attached to bonds with share options intend to make the demand under the preceding paragraph (hereinafter referred to as "the "exercise of appraisal rights on share options" in this Section), they must also demand that the stock company purchase the bonds concerning bonds with share options;provided, however, that this does not apply if it is otherwise provided for with respect to the share options attached to the bonds with share options.
A stock company which intends to effect entity conversion must notify the holders of share options thereof that it will effect entity conversion, by twenty days prior to the effective day.
A public notice may be substituted for the notice under the provisions of the preceding paragraph.
前項の規定による通知は、公告をもってこれに代えることができる。
To exercise appraisal rights on share options, the share option holder must indicate the features and number of the share options with respect to which the holder is exercising appraisal rights, between twenty days prior to the effective day and the day immediately preceding the effective day.
When intending to exercise appraisal rights on share options in respect of share options for which share option certificates have been issued, the holder of those share options must submit to a stock company effecting the entity conversion the share option certificates;provided, however, that this does not apply to a person who files a petition for public notice prescribed in Article 114 of the Non-Contentious Cases Procedure Act with respect to those share option certificates.
When intending to exercise appraisal rights on share options in respect of share options attached to bonds with share option for which certificate representing the bond with share options have been issued, the holder of those share options must submit to the stock company effective entity conversion the certificate representing the bond with share options;provided, however, that this does not apply to a person who files a petition for public notice prescribed in Article 114 of the Non-Contentious Cases Procedure Act with respect to that certificate representing the bond with share options.
Share option holders exercising appraisal rights on share options may withdraw their demands for appraisal of the share options only with the approval of the stock company effecting the entity conversion.
The demands of the share option holders exercising appraisal rights on share options lose effect if the entity conversion is cancelled.
The provisions of Article 260 do not apply to share options for the exercise of appraisal rights on share options.