# 会社法 / Companies Act — 第二百七十七条 (Article 277) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-277. Every law, and how to address a provision: https://japanlaw.org/llms.txt. The same laws as MCP tools (no sign-in): https://japanlaw.org/mcp. - Law: 会社法 (Companies Act), 平成十七年法律第八十六号 - English title "Companies Act": Ministry of Justice translation - Kind: Act — the distinction between 法律 (Act), 政令 (Cabinet Order), 省令 (Ministerial Order) and 条例 (local ordinance) decides who may issue it and what it may say. - Provision: 第二百七十七条 (Article 277)（新株予約権無償割当て） — address `art-277` - Text in force since: 2026-08-12 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-277 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-277 - Every provision below carries its address and both URLs on the line under it. - Japanese text: e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁). English: as marked on each line below. Only the Japanese as published by the government has legal effect; the text below is a copy of it. Every English rendering below is a translation and says which kind: the Ministry of Justice's translation, or this site's machine translation, whose model and date the Sources list names. They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第二百七十七条（新株予約権無償割当て） — (Allotment of Share Options without Contribution) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-277 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-277 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-277 **第一項** 株式会社は、株主（種類株式発行会社にあっては、ある種類の種類株主）に対して新たに払込みをさせないで当該株式会社の新株予約権の割当て（以下この節において「新株予約権無償割当て」という。）をすることができる。 art-277/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-277/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-277/par-1 A stock company may allot the share options of relevant stock company to shareholders (or, for a company with class shares, shareholders of a certain class) without requiring them to make additional contribution (hereinafter in this Section referred to as "allotment of share options without contribution"). Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System ## Cited by 8 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 会社法 第百十六条第一項第三号ヘ（反対株主の株式買取請求） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-116/par-1/item-3/sub-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-116/par-1/item-3/sub-6 - 会社法 第百五十一条第一項第七号（株式の質入れの効果） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-151/par-1/item-7 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-151/par-1/item-7 - 会社法 第三百二十二条第一項第六号（ある種類の種類株主に損害を及ぼすおそれがある場合の種類株主総会） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-322/par-1/item-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-322/par-1/item-6 - 所得税法 第二百二十八条の二第一項（新株予約権の行使に関する調書） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/income-tax-act/art-228-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/340AC0000000033/art-228-2/par-1 - 所得税法施行規則 第九十七条の二第一項（新株予約権の行使に関する調書） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/income-tax-act-enforcement-regulation/art-97-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/340M50000040011/art-97-2/par-1 - 金融商品取引法 第十三条第一項（目論見書の作成及び虚偽記載のある目論見書等の使用禁止） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-13/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-13/par-1 - 金融商品取引法 第二十七条の二第一項（発行者以外の者による株券等の公開買付け） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/art-27-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/art-27-2/par-1 - 金融商品取引法 附則第六条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/financial-instruments-and-exchange-act/suppl-4231-49/art-6/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000025/suppl-4231-49/art-6/par-1 --- ## Sources - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 会社法 — the text in force from 2026-08-12 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/417AC0000000086/20260812_508AC0000000064), retrieved 2026-09-17 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Companies Act — Ministry of Justice translation (part 1 of 2) (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4481/tb), retrieved 2026-09-17 - This site's parser, version 223 — 会社法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-09-17