Mergers, tender offers, buyouts and asset sales involving Japanese companies, in English.
A Cayman vehicle whose representative chairs a Bain Capital entity began settling its Baudroie tender offer on October 13, funded by ¥37bn of bank loans pledged against the shares, with an 87.43% stake and a squeeze-out vote still to come.
Hulic's ¥295-a-share offer for the rest of Riso Kyoiku Group is a 41.15% premium, ¥25 below its 2024 price, with no majority-of-minority condition, and Riso's board backs it.
Omron will pay $675mn on an enterprise-value basis, mainly from cash on hand, for Vermont-based OnLogic and its parent, which sells made-to-order industrial PCs directly to customers, mostly outside Japan.
Toho Holdings has decided to end its examination of acquiring PHC Holdings, which had received a non-binding initial proposal; neither company's October 9 notice gives terms or a reason.
Shinko Shoji shareholders backed a 7,894,651-to-1 consolidation with 95.59% approval; Kaga Electronics is set to become sole owner after delisting expected on October 29, with minority cash of ¥1,580 per share expected in late March 2027.
KJ005 now aims to open its Taiyo Holdings tender offer in late November, not early October, with China competition-law and Japan investment-screening procedures still outstanding and Spain and Israel filings no longer needed.
Crunchyroll holds 7.03% of Link-U after paying ¥917.5mn at ¥856 a share, with a consent right over specified deals with its competitors, a conditional board nomination and a 10% ceiling on further buying.
Cluster Technology will issue 996,677 shares at ¥301 to customer Seiko Epson, with payment due October 27, diluting holders by 17.51% and directing most of the ¥296.1mn net to factory works and Epson-lent inspection equipment.
NOK Corporation became a wholly owned subsidiary of the new NOK Group on October 1, 2026, after a joint share transfer with Eagle Industry, and its former group CEO took a representative director post at the parent.
Booking Resort signed a deal to take 100% of the company running a pet-friendly hot-spring inn in Aso for ¥147mn, or ¥173mn with advisory costs, paid in cash with transfer scheduled for November 2.
Yodoko paid ¥4.9bn from its own funds for 10.70% of Nakayama Steel Works on October 2, saying the stake supports an alliance to spread high-value electric-furnace steel.
True Data will acquire the Osaka maker of the MUSASI hardware-store system, partly funded by a ¥200mn MUFG Bank loan, on the company's view that trade purchases can foreshadow household demand; its two disclosures give different price figures.
Nittoc Construction signed on September 28 to buy a Kanagawa ground-reinforcement contractor with ¥3.52bn in sales, with the price undisclosed and the transfer scheduled for November 30 after a merger and property carve-out.
coconala will pay ¥867mn for 51% of Acrosstudio, a 63-person AI consultancy with ¥1.13bn in sales and ¥46mn operating profit in the year to June 2026, with the transfer scheduled for October 30.
Image Information agreed to buy a CRM call-centre business for ¥170mn in cash, effective October 1, with 85 employees due to transfer; the unit earned ¥86mn in operating profit in the year to May on unaudited seller figures.
Meiji will recapitalise a Hokkaido corn processor with one new share to erase its negative net assets, then transfer the company to Yoshimura Food Holdings on a planned November 1 date, at an undisclosed price.
Pharma Foods International will buy 100% of a medical-food supplier to hospitals and school-lunch operators from a buyout fund for ¥5.03bn, with the transfer planned for October 30 pending Japan Fair Trade Commission review.
Sekisui Jushi has taken control of Korea's Hi-Q, and its Vietnamese factory subsidiary, for KRW58bn, expecting only a minor effect on current-year forecasts with earnings contribution starting in the quarter to March 2027.
Holders tendered 9,057,536 JPMC shares at ¥2,270, above the 5,049,300 minimum, but the bidders will still need a share-consolidation vote before the planned delisting from the Prime market, with settlement starting October 13.
A Bain Capital-linked vehicle drew 10,365,448 shares in its offer for baudroie,inc. and expects 85.68% of voting rights after the October 13 settlement and founder transfers, with a squeeze-out and Prime market delisting planned.
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%.
W&D, the 50-50 investment company of World and the Development Bank of Japan, plans to move all of Uchino's business and designated financial debts into a new subsidiary on December 1, then liquidate the old company.
Chuo Warehouse will pay about ¥6.115bn including costs for 70% of Takara Logistics System, with Takara Holdings booking an expected gain of about ¥3.625bn in consolidated results for the year to March 2028 if the deal closes in April 2027 after a competition review.
Nippon Chutetsukan will move its straight ductile iron pipe production into a new company and sell 19.9% to Kubota, with the January 4, 2027 start conditional on a December 17 shareholder vote.