A New Era of Unsolicited Takeovers in Japan | Round Table: “How Should Japanese Firms and Institutional Investors Cope with an Unsolicited Acquisition Offer?”
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Solvay Brussels School for Economics and Management, Université libre de Bruxelles
Waseda University
Waseda University
The joint seminar, co-hosted by RIETI (Research Institute of Economy Trade and Industry), WBF (Waseda Institute of Business and Finance), and ECGI (European Corporate Governance Institute), was held on 18 November 2024 at Waseda University, Tokyo. It was a hybrid seminar with English interpretation.
Kazunori (Icko) Suzuki (Waseda University) moderated the roundtable discussion titled: 'How Should Japanese Firms and Institutional Investors Cope with an Unsolicited Acquisition Offer?' The panelists:
- Marco Becht (Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management, Université libre de Bruxelles, and ECGI),
- Hideaki Miyajima (Waseda University),
- Wataru Tanaka (Institute of Social Science, The University of Tokyo),
- Atsuko Furuta (Deloitte Tohmatsu Equity Advisory LLC),
- Yuko Yoshitomi (Recof Data Corporation)
—examined the current challenges Japan faces in this evolving market.
