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For a stock company that disappears in an absorption-type merger, splits in an absorption-type company split or becomes wholly owned in a share exchange, the day from which it must keep the agreement at its head office: the earliest of two weeks before the shareholders meeting that must approve the agreement, the day it notifies its shareholders or share option holders or gives public notice to them, and the day it gives public notice or notice to its creditors, or, where none of these applies, two weeks after a company split or share exchange agreement is concluded.
次に掲げる日のいずれか早い日
In Article 2, item (vi), (a) and (b), which decide whether a stock company is a large company (大会社), the balance sheet for its most recent business year: where the first sentence of Article 439 applies, the one whose contents were reported to the annual shareholders meeting under that Article, and until the first annual shareholders meeting after the company is formed, the balance sheet under Article 435, paragraph (1).
第四百三十九条前段に規定する場合にあっては、同条の規定により定時株主総会に報告された貸借対照表をいい、株式会社の成立後最初の定時株主総会までの間においては、第四百三十五条第一項の貸借対照表
The day from which a parent company in a partial share exchange must keep the plan at its head office for inspection: the earliest of dates such as two weeks before the shareholders meeting that approves it, or the day notice of it is given to shareholders or creditors.
次に掲げる日のいずれか早い日
The day from which a stock company in a consolidation-type merger, incorporation-type company split or share transfer must keep the agreement or plan at its head office for inspection: the earliest of dates such as two weeks before the shareholders meeting that approves it, or the day notice of it is given to shareholders, share option holders or creditors.
次に掲げる日のいずれか早い日
The pay, bonuses and any other financial benefit that directors and other officers receive from a stock company in return for doing their job.
新株予約権
A share option (新株予約権), of a kind a Cabinet Order (政令) specifies, that a person is to be granted under a resolution under Article 238, paragraph (2) of the Companies Act (including a decision on offering matters delegated under Article 239, paragraph (1) and a board resolution under Article 240, paragraph (1)).
Shares fewer in number than one share unit, which carry no vote at shareholders meetings.
議決権行使書面
The form on which a shareholder can cast their vote in writing, which the directors must send with the notice of a shareholders meeting when they have decided that shareholders who do not attend may vote in writing.
The money or other property a company hands shareholders in exchange for acquiring its shares subject to class-wide call.
自己株券買付状況報告書
The report that an issuer of listed share certificates, etc. (上場株券等) must submit to the Prime Minister by the 15th of the following month for each month covered by a shareholders' meeting or board resolution to acquire its own shares (Article 24-6, paragraph (1)), stating how it bought its own shares that month and other matters a Cabinet Office Order (内閣府令) specifies.
A shareholder who holds shares less than one unit, which carry no vote at shareholders meetings.
効力発生日
The day on which the corporate action in question takes effect, such as a share consolidation, business transfer, entity conversion, merger, company split, share exchange or partial share exchange.
A share option holder's demand that the company buy back their share options at a fair price, allowed when the company makes certain changes such as amending its articles of incorporation, converting into another kind of company, merging or splitting.
会社の組織に関する訴え
The lawsuits listed in Article 834 that challenge a company's basic acts, such as its incorporation, a merger, a company split, a share exchange, a share issue or a shareholders meeting resolution, each of which must be brought against the defendant that Article names.
A shareholder's request to be sent on paper the shareholders meeting materials that the company otherwise makes available online through electronic provision measures.
A corporation holding a majority of the votes in a stock company, in whose pending special liquidation, bankruptcy, rehabilitation or reorganization court the stock company's own special liquidation may also be filed.
取締役等
The directors and executive officers involved in an issue of shares (Article 213) or of share options (Article 286) who must pay the company the shortfall when property contributed in kind turns out to be worth far less than the value set on it.
The period, at least one month, within which a shareholder who asked for paper copies of shareholders meeting materials must object after the company announces that it will stop sending them.
In Article 24-6, paragraph (1), a resolution of a shareholders meeting or board of directors under Article 156, paragraph (1) of the Companies Act (including as applied under Article 165, paragraph (3) of that Act) on acquiring the company's own shares, or a decision of a body a Cabinet Order (政令) specifies as equivalent.
The resolution of a shareholders' meeting or similar body by which a company acquires all the shares of a class whose terms allow it to do so.