Development and provision of an AI-powered shareholder and activist risk analysis product

「The Group established a Market Intelligence Division to strengthen its proprietary databases covering leading-edge market intelligence, ESG information, and emergency TOBs and proxy contests, while seeking to improve the efficiency and value added of its conventional research operations.」

「By collecting and analyzing cutting-edge market intelligence and ESG information from around the world, the group provides unique, sophisticated equity consulting, supported by its proprietary database, expertise and execution capabilities, covering everything from support for ordinary IR and SR activities, which serve as the point of contact for activists, to tender offers and proxy contests in times of crisis.」

「From the previous consolidated fiscal year through the current consolidated fiscal year, the group has continued to achieve an outstanding track record in large PA and FA projects, including proxy contests, hostile tender offers, MBOs and other contests for corporate control, as well as activist defense.」

「Activist activity has become active again, and engagements for the group’s activist defense services have increased.」

「The relevant organization is making full use of AI to collect and analyze intelligence data around the clock, covering shareholdings, voting, and tender offer information for institutional shareholders and activist investors worldwide. It is rapidly expanding the database, which is at a world-leading level.」

「The company is expanding engagements by providing world-class advanced solutions that draw on unparalleled AI-based data analysis and expertise in activist defense, together with intelligence covering cutting-edge voting rights and tender offer information on institutional shareholders worldwide.」

「Notably, as the company’s track record in activist defense, proxy contests and M&A has gained significantly greater recognition, attention has increased for its unique consulting and advisory business, which combines proxy advisory (PA) and financial advisory (FA) services and uses cutting-edge AI. As more clients have come to understand the appropriateness of the company’s stance as an independent firm, which remains entirely aligned with the interests of issuing companies, engagements for large PA and FA projects have expanded rapidly.」

「Notably, as the company’s track record in activist defense, proxy contests and M&A has gained significantly greater recognition, attention has increased for its unique consulting and advisory business, which combines proxy advisory (PA) and financial advisory (FA) services and uses cutting-edge AI. As more clients have come to understand the appropriateness of the company’s stance as an independent firm, which remains entirely aligned with the interests of issuing companies, engagements for large PA and FA projects have expanded rapidly.」

「In addition to these existing services, amid growing awareness of the need for corporate defenses, the cutting-edge product under development, Activist Analytics, which uses AI to analyze activist risks, has been increasingly adopted mainly by large-cap companies, while the company’s consulting services on capital policy have also grown.」

「In addition to these existing services, the cutting-edge product under development, Activist Analytics, which uses AI to analyze activist risks, has been increasingly adopted by large-cap companies.」

「In particular, engagements for the activist solutions system using cutting-edge AI and data aggregation and analysis technologies have expanded,」

「The company also developed and released an analysis tool using artificial intelligence (AI), as well as new products based on the results of AI analysis, to identify and address in advance risks inherent in companies and external-pressure risks from activists and others.」