If the stock company to be incorporated is a company with class shares, and effecting any amendment in articles of incorporation with respect to any of the following matters is likely to cause detriment to the class shareholders at incorporation of any class of shares issued at incorporation, relevant amendment in the articles of incorporation does not become effective unless a resolution is passed at an organizational meeting of class shareholders constituted by the class shareholders at incorporation of the shares issued at incorporation of relevant class (if there are two or more classes of shares issued at incorporation relating to relevant class shareholders at incorporation, referring to the respective class organizational meetings of class shareholders constituted by the class shareholders at incorporation categorized by the class of relevant two or more classes of shares issued at incorporation); provided, however, that this does not apply to cases where there is no class shareholder at incorporation who may exercise votes at relevant organizational meeting of class shareholders:
creation of a new class of shares;
株式の種類の追加
changes in the features of shares;
株式の内容の変更
increase of the total number of authorized shares, or the total number of authorized shares in a class (meaning the total number of shares in one class that the stock company is authorized to issue; the same applies hereinafter).
発行可能株式総数又は発行可能種類株式総数（株式会社が発行することができる一の種類の株式の総数をいう。以下同じ。）の増加
If any amendment in the articles of incorporation with respect to the share unit is to be effected and there are provisions in the articles of incorporation pursuant to the provisions of Article 322, paragraph (2) with respect to relevant amendment in the articles of incorporation, the provisions of the preceding paragraph do not apply to the organizational meeting of class shareholders constituted by the class shareholders at incorporation of relevant class of the shares issued at incorporation.
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If the stock company to be incorporated is a company with class shares, and effecting any amendment in articles of incorporation with respect to any of the following matters is likely to cause…
設立しようとする株式会社が種類株式発行会社である場合において、次に掲げる事項についての定款の変更をすることにより、ある種類の設立時発行株式の設立時種類株主に損害を及ぼすおそれがあるときは、当該定款の変更は…
Open this provision(General Meetings of Class Shareholders Where Detriment to Class Shareholders of Certain Class Likely)
A company with class shares may provide in the articles of incorporation that, as a feature of a certain class of shares, a resolution at the general meeting of class shareholders pursuant to the…
種類株式発行会社は、ある種類の株式の内容として、前項の規定による種類株主総会の決議を要しない旨を定款で定めることができる。
Open this provisioncompany with class shares
「種類株式発行会社」
A stock company that issues two or more classes of shares with different terms on the matters listed in Article 108, paragraph (1), such as dividends of surplus or voting rights.
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (1), item (xiii)· applies throughout the law
share unit
「単元株式数」
The number of shares that a stock company's articles of incorporation make one unit, carrying one vote at a shareholders meeting.
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (1), item (xx)· applies throughout the law
shares issued at incorporationmachine translation
「設立時発行株式」
The shares a stock company issues when it is formed.
Defined inArticle 25, paragraph (1), item (i)
total number of authorized shares
「発行可能株式総数」
The total number of shares a stock company's articles of incorporation authorize it to issue.
Short name set inArticle 37, paragraph (1)
organizational meeting of class shareholdersmachine translation
「種類創立総会」
A meeting of the shareholders at incorporation who hold one class of the shares issued at incorporation, whose resolution may be needed as well as the organizational meeting's.
Defined inArticle 84, paragraph (1)
class shareholder at incorporationmachine translation
「設立時種類株主」
A shareholder at incorporation who holds a particular class of the shares issued at incorporation.
Defined inArticle 84, paragraph (1)· applies only in this section
total number of authorized shares in a classmachine translation
「発行可能種類株式総数」
The total number of shares of one class that a stock company is authorized to issue.
Defined inArticle 101, paragraph (1), item (iii)
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.