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Japan to reduce stake that triggers tender offer to 30%

Move would put rules in line with major European markets

The FSA aims to have legal changes to put the new rules in place next year.   © Reuters

TOKYO -- Japan's Financial Services Agency is planning to lower the threshold that a mandatory tender offer is triggered from aiming to buy a stake of one third or more in a company to 30%, Nikkei has learned.

The reason is that in a majority of cases, a shareholder with even less than a third of a stake in a company has effective power to veto resolutions.

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