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AMT: Japan's New "Early Business Turnaround Act"

Norbert Gehrke

21 Jul 2025 — 4 min read

In a newsletter published at the end of June, Anderson Mori & Tomotsune (AMT) lawyers explained the newly enacted "Act on Procedures for Adjustment of Debts Owed by Business Operators to Financial Institutions, etc. for Facilitating Business Turnaround," referred to as the "Early Business Turnaround Act." The Act is set to be implemented within 18 months of its promulgation.

The Act introduces a groundbreaking "private restructuring by majority vote" system in Japan, creating a new, hybrid procedure that sits between fully consensual private workouts (like Turnaround ADR) and formal, public court-led proceedings (like Civil Rehabilitation or Corporate Reorganization).

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Japan FinTech Observer #122

Welcome to the one hundred twenty-second edition of the Japan FinTech Observer. We have implemented our own, very personal "Don't buy American" policy, which might seem ironic, given that you are most likely to read this newsletter on LinkedIn, but we do offer a self-hosted version

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JAPAN AI Completes JPY 1.9bn Series B Funding Round

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Mizuho Bank to acquire 70% of Upsider Holdings for JPY 46bn

Japan FinTech Observer #122