July 25, 2006 Firm News

Our firm held a seminar on the new Financial Instruments and Exchange Law and hosted a reception afterward

Mori Hamada & Matsumoto held a seminar on the new Financial Instruments and Exchange Law (tentative name) and hosted a reception afterward at the Hotel New Otani, Tokyo. Over 1,000 guests took part in the seminar and reception, including many of our clients. In the seminar, we invited as panelists people from universities and the Financial Services Agency who are at the forefront of the enactment of the new Financial Instruments and Exchange Law, which has just taken effect this June through the amendment and abolishment of over 90 financial laws. We explained to participants the developments leading up to and the details of the amendments, as well as the expected impact of the newly established law on everyday business, from various perspectives. The seminar was well received by our clients, because it provided prompt and substantial information to participants about the new law.

The Mori Hamada & Matsumoto seminars and receptions are an opportunity for us to invite our clients, who constantly support our business, to events where we can swiftly provide them with information necessary and useful to their businesses at the same time as cultivating deeper and closer relationships with them. Mori Hamada & Matsumoto intends to hold such seminars regularly in the future and invites its clients and other interested people to continue to take advantage of these opportunities.

Seminar Contents

Part I:"Financial Practice under the New Financial Instruments and Exchange Law"

Panel Discussion

Panelists Shuya Nomura (Professor, Faculty of Law, Chuo University Law School)
Naohiko Matsuo (Head of Preparatory Office for Investment Services Law of Financial Markets Division, and Head of Legal Affairs Office of Communications and Policy Division, Planning and Coordination Bureau, Financial Services Agency)
Takahiro Kobayashi (MHM partner)
Hisao Saito (MHM associate)
Masayuki Hashimoto (MHM associate)
Moderator  Yukinaga Kojima(MHM associate)

Part II:"Disclosure and Take-Over Bid under the Financial Instruments and Exchange Law"

Panel Discussion

Panelists Hideki Kanda (Professor, University of Tokyo Graduate Schools for Law and Politics)
Yoshiyuki Taniguchi (Corporate Disclosure Adjust Officer, Corporate Accounting and Disclosure Division Planning and Coordination Bureau, Financial Services Agency)
Yuto Matsumura (MHM partner)
Katsumasa Suzuki (MHM associate)
Moderator  Satoshi Nakamura (MHM partner)