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Maki Hiroyuki raised his BASE holding to 23.32% from 20.53% and now says he may vote against individual directors, while aiming for more than 30% of voting rights and a committee-based board proposal once the SBINM tender offer ends.
SBI's vehicle kept its ¥340 BASE offer and 20.67% cap but extended the deadline to October 21 and pushed settlement to October 28, after a major shareholder said he would resume buying to pass 30%.
A major BASE shareholder has told the company it will buy again from October 2 to push its holding past 30%, after a disagreement over management support, while the board keeps backing SBI Holdings' extended tender offer and stays neutral on tendering.
SBI Holdings made crypto exchange bitbank a wholly owned subsidiary on October 1 after the exchange repurchased shares from MIXI and Ceres, with Ceres reporting ¥8.61bn for its 21,480 shares and about ¥5.7bn in expected special gains.
SBI Insurance Group would be delisted on 30 March 2027 as planned, with each of its shares converting into 3.53 SBI Global Asset Management shares, but the ratio can change and a final agreement, votes and approvals are still needed.
SBI Holdings' offer vehicle lengthened its ¥340-a-share bid for BASE from 20 to 30 business days after reviewing how holders had tendered, with the 20.67% ceiling and BASE's neutral stance untouched.
A Blackstone-affiliated TechnoPro vehicle, TX1 Kabushiki Kaisha, wants to take Project Holdings private at ¥2,200 a share, a price it raised twice after the target's independent committee rejected two lower offers, and investors holding almost 60% of the stock have already agreed to sell.
The JFTC told SBI's tender vehicle it won't block the tender offer for BASE and cut the mandatory waiting period from 30 days to 18, but SBI says the correction changes nothing about the offer's actual purchase terms.
SBI Holdings is offering ¥340 a share for up to a fifth of BASE, a price it raised twice after the e-commerce platform pushed back, and the tender is structured to create an affiliate stake rather than take the company private.
SBI Holdings filed for a ¥170bn unsecured note and a separate ¥50bn dual-tranche bond on the same day, both charged against one ¥800bn shelf registration that still shows ¥610bn unclaimed while both payments await settlement.