Remerciements

En droit européen la 4^ème Directive sur les Sociétés adopte une classification à partir des actifs nets, du chiffre d’affaires net et du nombre d’employés

Le système de la Société avec Censeur statutaire diffère du système allemand dans lequel les actionnaires nomment les membres du Conseil de Surveillance lequel désigne les administrateurs.

Compléments bibliographiques sur la gouvernance d’entreprise au Japon:

Shiro Kawashima & Susumu Sakurai, “Shareholder derivative litigation in Japan: law, practice and suggested re forms”, 33 Stan. J. Int’l, 9, 1997
Bruce E. Aranson, “Reconsidering the importance of law in Japanese Corporate Governance Evidence from the Daiwa Bank Shareholder Derivative Case”, 36 Cornell Int’l J. 2003
Patrick, Hugh T. “Evolving Corporate Governance in Japan.” in Claudio Borio, William C. Winter, George G. Kaufman, and Kostas Tsatsaronis, eds., Market Discipline Across Countries and Industries. Cambridge , MA : MIT Press, 2004.
Douglas M. Branson, “Teaching Comparative Corporate Governance: the significance of “soft law” and international institutions”, Georgia Law Review, Winter 2000
Laurie N. Lebrun, “Recent amendments to the Commercial Code of Japan: impact on mergers & acquisitions”, Law and Policy in International Business, Summer 2001
Kenji Utsumi, “The business judgement rule and shareholder derivative suits in Japan: a comparison with those in the United States”, New York International Law Review, Winter 2002
Yoshiro Miwa & J. Mark Ramseyer, “The value of prominent directors: corporate governance and bank access in transitional Japan”, Journal of Legal Studies, June 2002
Hideki Kanda & Curtis J. Millhaupt, “Re-examining legal transplants: the director’s fiduciary duty in Japanese corporate law”, American Journal of Comparative Law, Fall 2003
Bruce E. Aronson, “Learning from comparative law in teaching U.S. corporate law: director’s liability in Japan and the U.S.”, Pennsylvania State International Law Review, Fall 2003
Kelly R. Morrison, “The Sarbanes-Oxley act and the Japanese accounting big bang: new motivations for the promotion of multidisciplinary practices”, Washington University Global Studies Law Review, 2004
Ronald J Gilson, “The poison pill in Japan: the missing infrastructure”, Columbia Law Review 2004
Curtis J. Mihaupt, “Prescribing the pill in Japan? Foreword to the hostile M&A conference issue”, Columbia Business Law Review, 2004
Katsumasa Suzuki, “Future prospects of takeovers in Japan analysed from the view of share-ownership structures and laws in comparison with the United States and the European Union”, Columbia Journal of Transnational Law, 2004
Toru Yoshikawa and Phillip H. Phan, “The Effects of Ownership and Capital Structure on Board Composition and Strategic Diversification in Japanese Corporations”, Corporate Governance, Vol. 13, N°2, March 2005
Gregory Jackson, “Stakeholders under pressure : corporate governance and labour management in Germany and Japan”, Corporate Governance, Vol. 13, N°3, May 2005
Brian R. Cheffins & Bernard S. Black, “Outside Director Liability across countries”, Texas Law Review, May 2006
Douglas G. Gruener, “Chilled to the pill: the Japanese judiciary’s cool reception of the poison pill and potential repercussions”, University of Pittsburgh Law Review, Summer 2006
Kent Anderson, “Mixed reception: Culture, International Norms, and Legal Change in East Asia Review Essay, The next Generation: Milhaupt and West on Japanese Economic Law, Economic Organizations and Corporate Governance in Japan: the impact of formal and informal rules”, Michigan Journal of International Law, Spring 2006
D. Hugh Whittaker, Masaru Hayakawa, “Contesting "Corporate Value" Through Takeover Bids in Japan” Corporate Governance: An International Review, Vol. 15 Issue 1, January 2007, pages 16-26
John Buchanan, “Japanese Corporate Governance and the Principle of "Internalism", Corporate Governance: An International Review, Vol. 15 Issue 1, January 2007, page 27
Gregory Jackson & Andreas Moerke, “Continuity and Change in Corporate Governance: comparing Germany and Japan” , Corporate Governance: An International Review, May 2005 - Vol. 13 Issue 3 , pages 351–361
Gerhard Cromme, “Corporate Governance in Germany and the German Corporate Governance Code”, Corporate Governance: An International Review, May 2005 - Vol. 13 Issue 3 pages 362–367
Michael Nietsch, “Corporate Governance and Company Law Reform: a German perspective “,Corporate Governance: An International Review, May 2005 - Vol. 13 Issue 3 pages 368–376
Takaya Seki, “Legal Reform and Shareholder Activism by Institutional Investors in Japan”, Corporate Governance: An International Review, May 2005 - Vol. 13 Issue 3 pages 377–385
Sigurt Vitols, “Changes in Germany's Bank-Based Financial System: implications for corporate governance”, Corporate Governance: An International Review, May 2005 - Vol. 13 Issue 3 pages 386–396
Andreas Hackethal, Reinhard H. Schmidt & Marcel Tyrell, “Banks and German Corporate Governance: on the way to a capital market-based system?”, Corporate Governance: An International Review, May 2005 - Vol. 13 Issue 3 pages 397–407
Yasuhiro Arikawa & Hideaki Miyajima, “Relationship Banking and Debt Choice: evidence from Japan”, Corporate Governance: An International Review, May 2005 - Vol. 13 Issue 3 pages 408–418
Gregory Jackson, “Stakeholders under Pressure: corporate governance and labour management in Germany and Japan”, Corporate Governance: An International Review, May 2005 - Vol. 13 Issue 3 pages 419–428
Ronald Dore, “Deviant or Different? Corporate Governance in Japan and Germany”, Corporate Governance: An International Review, May 2005 - Vol. 13 Issue 3 pages 437–446
Masaru Yoshimori, “Does Corporate Governance Matter? Why the Corporate Performance of Toyota and Canon is Superior to GM and Xerox”, Corporate Governance: An International Review, May 2005 - Vol. 13 Issue 3, pages 447-457
Toru Yoshikawa & Phillip H. Phan, “The Effects of Ownership and Capital Structure on Board Composition and Strategic Diversification in Japanese Corporations”, Corporate Governance: An International Review, March 2005 - Vol. 13 Issue 2, pages 303–312
Aris Solomon, Jill Solomon, & Megoni Suto, “Can the UK Experience Provide Lessons for the Evolution of SRI in Japan?” Corporate Governance: An International Review, Oct. 2004 - Vol. 12 Issue 4, pages 552-566
Ariyoshi Okumura, “A Japanese view on corporate governance”, Corporate Governance: An International Review, Jan. 2004 - Vol. 12 Issue 1, pages 3-4
Curtis J. Milhaupt, “A relational theory of Japanese Corporate Governance: contract, culture and the rule of law”, Harvard International Law Journal, Vol. 17, N°1, Winter 1996, p. 3-64
ANNEXE 3
Cabinets d’avocats

Par ordre alphabétique

Bien que non exhaustive cette liste est plus complète que celle proposée par la Mission Economique du Japon, car elle prend en compte l’ensemble des cabinets disposant d’interlocuteurs au Japon maîtrisant parfaitement l’anglais
Akasaka International Law, Patent & Accounting Office

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Cabinet parisien associé :

Mandel & Associés

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