June 21/2011
Japan Fair Trade Commission
For the purpose of ensuring transparency of reviews of the Japan Fair Trade Commission (hereinafter, referred to as “JFTC”) on business combination cases and the purpose of improving predictability of the JFTC’s reviews on case, the JFTC has published “Guidelines to Application of the Antimonopoly Act concerning Reviews of Business Combination (hereinafter, referred to as the “Business Combination Guidelines”)”, in applying Anti-monopoly Act (hereinafter,referred to as “the AMA”) to the JFTC’s reviews on business combinations. In addition, the JFTC has also published the results of the JFTC’s reviews on major business combination cases in each fiscal year.
Also this year, the JFTC officially publishes the results of reviews on major business combination in fiscal year 2010 and provides the data associated with these reviews.
The JFTC sincerely hopes the companies,planning business combinations, to make use of the announced outcomes of the JFTC’s reviews on major business combination cases along with the Business Combination Guidelines
*Every announcement is tentative translation. Please refer to the original text written in Japanese.
