{"id":49,"date":"2017-01-12T07:53:03","date_gmt":"2017-01-12T07:53:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.at-law.jp\/?page_id=49"},"modified":"2025-05-14T00:59:31","modified_gmt":"2025-05-14T00:59:31","slug":"mergers-acquisitions","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.at-law.jp\/en\/practice-areas\/mergers-acquisitions\/","title":{"rendered":"Mergers &#038; Acquisitions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the last 5 years, Mergers &amp; Acquisitions (M&amp;As) has become popular among small- or medium-sized Japanese companies. Some companies struggle to find successors for the founders who are reaching retirement age. Others seek a buyer for their business as an exit option. The above trends provide attractive M&amp;A opportunities for foreign companies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Finding potential companies for acquisition\u2014Working with M&amp;A advisory firms<\/li><li>Identifying the best scheme from a business, tax, and accounting point of view<\/li><li>Conducting due diligence of target companies<\/li><li>Drafting stock acquisition or business transfer contracts<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the last 5 years, Mergers &amp; Acquisitions (M&amp;As) has become popular among small- or medium-sized Jap&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":72,"parent":96,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-49","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.at-law.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/49","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.at-law.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.at-law.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.at-law.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.at-law.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49"}],"version-history":[{"count":34,"href":"https:\/\/www.at-law.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/49\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2178,"href":"https:\/\/www.at-law.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/49\/revisions\/2178"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.at-law.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/96"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.at-law.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.at-law.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}