A financial instruments business operator (limited to one that engages in securities services; the same applies in the following paragraph) may not become a bond administrator provided for in Article 702 of the Companies Act, a bond administration assistant provided in Article 714-2 of that Act, or the trustee company under a trust contract as defined in Article 2, paragraph (1) of the Secured Bonds Trust Act.
金融商品取引業者(有価証券関連業を行う者に限る。次項において同じ。)は、会社法第七百二条に規定する社債管理者、同法第七百十四条の二に規定する社債管理補助者又は担保付社債信託法第二条第一項に規定する信託契約の受託会社となることができない。
Notwithstanding the provisions of other Acts, a financial instruments business operator may become an underwriter.
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(Prohibition on Corporate Bond Management)
Notwithstanding the provisions of other Acts, a financial instruments business operator may become an underwriter.
金融商品取引業者は、他の法律の規定にかかわらず、引受人となることができる。
Open this provision(Establishment of Bond Administrators)
If a company will issue bonds, the company must specify a bond administrator and entrust the receipt of payments, the preservation of rights of claim on behalf of the bondholders and other…
会社は、社債を発行する場合には、社債管理者を定め、社債権者のために、弁済の受領、債権の保全その他の社債の管理を行うことを委託しなければならない。ただし、各社債の金額が一億円以上である場合その他社債権者の保護に欠けるおそれがないものとして法務省令で定める場合は、この限りでない。
Open this provision(Establishment of Bond Administration Assistant)
In the case of the proviso of Article 702, a company may specify a bond administration assistant and entrust that bond administration assistant to assist bond administration for the benefit of the…
会社は、第七百二条ただし書に規定する場合には、社債管理補助者を定め、社債権者のために、社債の管理の補助を行うことを委託することができる。ただし、当該社債が担保付社債である場合は、この限りでない。
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「引受人」
In this Act other than Chapter V, a person that, in a public offering or secondary distribution of securities, a private placement, or a solicitation for selling, etc. made only to professional investors, acquires all or part of the securities in order to have others acquire them, contracts to acquire whatever part no one else acquires, or, for share option certificates, contracts to acquire and exercise the options left unexercised.
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (6)
financial instruments business operator
「金融商品取引業者」
A person registered by the Prime Minister under Article 29 to carry on financial instruments business (金融商品取引業).
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (9)· applies throughout the law
securities services
「有価証券関連業」
In Chapter III, carrying on as a business any of these: buying and selling securities, or intermediating, brokering (other than brokerage for clearing of securities, etc.) or acting as agent in such trades; intermediating, brokering or acting as agent for entrustments of securities trades on a financial instruments exchange market or a foreign financial instruments market; securities-related market and over-the-counter derivatives transactions, similar transactions on foreign markets, and intermediation, brokerage or agency for them; brokerage for clearing of securities trades and securities-related derivatives transactions; and underwriting, secondary distributions, and handling public offerings, secondary distributions and private placements of securities (Article 28, paragraph (8), items (i) to (viii)).
Defined inArticle 28, paragraph (8)· applies only in this chapter