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Matters Concerning Controlling Shareholders

The company reported the voting rights ratios, relationships with the listed company, transaction status, and measures to protect minority shareholders concerning affiliated companies, including LY Corporation. It explained that independence is ensured by having 6 independent outside directors out of 10 directors.

Worth reading
61In focus
Scored from 3 of 5 sections
Direction
Neutral
Direction inferred from the company’s description.
Scale
46.9
Voting rights ownership ratio (%)
Wording
Conditional
How definitive the wording is.

Governance structure

Controlling shareholder
There is no controlling shareholder. LY Corporation, an other affiliated company, directly holds 46.9% of the voting rights. The parent companies of the other affiliated companies are SoftBank Group Corp.46.90%Voting rights

aggregate ownership of 46.9%), SoftBank Group Japan Corporation (aggregate ownership of 46.9%), SoftBank Corp. (aggregate ownership of 46.9%), and A Holdings Corporation (aggregate ownership of 46.9%).

When one company holds most of the voting rights, its wishes are more likely to prevail in management. How the interests of minority shareholders are protected is a key issue.

Number of directors10 in total, including 6 outside directors (independent outside directors)
Number of independent officers6Number

This is the number of people reported to the exchange as independent officers. Whether someone is an outside officer and whether they qualify as independent are separate determinations.

Governance structure
ItemDetails
Number of directors10 in total, including 6 outside directors (independent outside directors)
Number of independent officers6 (independent outside directors)
Controlling shareholderThere is no controlling shareholder. LY Corporation, an other affiliated company, directly holds 46.9% of the voting rights. The parent companies of the other affiliated companies are SoftBank Group Corp. (aggregate ownership of 46.9%), SoftBank Group Japan Corporation (aggregate ownership of 46.9%), SoftBank Corp. (aggregate ownership of 46.9%), and A Holdings Corporation (aggregate ownership of 46.9%).
Items this document does not state (5)
Corporate Governance StructureCommitteePolicy on cross-shareholdingsTakeover defensesChanges this time

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The reasons the company gives

The company's own explanation, not something inferred from the numbers.

To provide information on matters concerning controlling shareholders, etc. LY Corporation was identified as the company with the greatest influence on the listed company because it holds 46.9% of the voting rights and has 2 secondees serving as officers of the company.

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