Japanese Corporate Groups under the New Legislation
Corporate governance and creditor protection are core issues of today's company law. A major playing field in this respect is the law of corporate groups. The High Level Group has, in pursuance of the Forum Europaeum Konzernrecht, proposed to facilitate corporate groups while safeguarding the interests of minority shareholders and creditors. Therefore, the ECFR starts introducing international group laws in a loose series of articles. The first in this line is Eiji Takahashi's overview of the current Japanese group law.