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May 31, 2000

Flash in the pan

The hostile bid for Shoei Co and two decades of corporate battles in Japan

Much media attention has been paid recently to what was billed by the Wall Street Journal as 'the first hostile takeover bid by a Japanese company for another Japanese company'. The story? The public tender offer for shares of Shoei Co, a smallish second-section TSE-listed company with interests in electronics, construction, real estate, and laundry services. Is the hyperbole justified? Does this deal (which failed) represent a turning point for Japanese M&A specifically or Japanese business

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