Gen Goto

University of Tokyo - Graduate School of Law and Politics

Professor

7-3-1 Hongo Bunkyo-Ku

Tokyo, 113-0033

Japan

  • University of Tokyo - Graduate School of Law and Politics

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Scholarly Papers (9)

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Comparative Corporate Law: Look No Further

Bocconi Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2626021
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 07 Jul 2015
Marco Ventoruzzo, Pierre-Henri Conac, Gen Goto, Sebastian Mock, Mario Notari and Arad Reisberg
Bocconi University - Department of Law, University of Luxembourg, University of Tokyo - Graduate School of Law and Politics, Vienna University of Economics and Business - Department for Private Law, Bocconi Law School and Brunel University London
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corporate law, comparative law, corporate governance, corporate finance, shares, bonds, board of directors, directors' liability, M&As, takeovers, insider trading, liitgation, arbitration

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The Outline for the Companies Act Reform in Japan and Its Implications

Zeitschrift für japanisches Recht / Journal of Japanese Law, vol. 35 (2013)
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 02 Nov 2013
Gen Goto
University of Tokyo - Graduate School of Law and Politics
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Japanese law, corporate governance, independent directors, private placement of shares, squeeze out, liability of parent company, derivative action

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Diversity of Shareholder Stewardship in Asia: Faux Convergence

53(3) Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law 829–880 (2020), European Corporate Governance Institute - Law Working Paper No. 485/2019, NUS Law Working Paper No. 2019/027, The University of Tokyo Business Law Working Paper Series No.2019-E-01, NUS Centre for Asian Legal Studies Working Paper 19/08, NUS EW Barker Centre for Law & Business Working Paper 19/05
Number of pages: 55 Posted: 06 Nov 2019 Last Revised: 15 Oct 2020
Gen Goto, Alan K. Koh and Dan W. Puchniak
University of Tokyo - Graduate School of Law and Politics, Nanyang Business School, Nanyang Technological University and Yong Pung How School of Law, Singapore Management University
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shareholder stewardship, stewardship codes, institutional investors, shareholder structure, legal transplants, faux convergence, comparative corporate law, UK stewardship code, Japanese corporate governance, Singapore corporate governance, corporate law in Asia

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The Logic and Limits of Stewardship Codes: The Case of Japan

Berkeley Business Law Journal, Forthcoming, The University of Tokyo Business Law Working Paper Series, No. 2018-E-01
Number of pages: 54 Posted: 18 Jan 2019
Gen Goto
University of Tokyo - Graduate School of Law and Politics
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Japanese Stewardship Code, UK Stewardship Code, Institutional Investors, Corporate Governance

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Recent Boardroom Reforms in Japan and the Roles of Outside/Independent Directors

Published in Hiroshi Oda (ed.), Comparative Corporate Governance: The Case of Japan, Journal of Japanese Law, Special Issue 12 (Carl Heymanns Verlag, 2018)
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 19 Nov 2018
Gen Goto
University of Tokyo - Graduate School of Law and Politics
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Japanese corporate governance, independent directors, outside directors

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Enterprise Law Conference of 2014: Edited Transcript

Number of pages: 202 Posted: 26 Sep 2014
Bruce E. Aronson, Kenneth Ayotte, Takaaki Eguchi, David Gamage, Mark P. Gergen, Gen Goto, Benjamin E. Hermalin, Yohsuke Higashi, Akio Hoshi, Hidefusa Iida, Hideshi Itoh, Hideshi Itoh, Takahito Kato, Nobuo Matsuki, Manabu Matsunaka, Manabu Matsunaka, Curtis J. Milhaupt, Hiroshi Mitoma, Hideaki Miyajima, Sadakazu Osaki, J. Mark Ramseyer, Shruti Rana, Roberta Romano, Takuji Saito, Kenichi Sekiguchi, Masakazu Shirai, Zenichi Shishido, Shinjiro Takagi, Wataru Tanaka, Takashi Toichi, Hideaki Umetsu, J. H. Verkerke, Tetsuya Watanabe and Noriyuki Yanagawa
Hitotsubashi University Graduate School of International Corporate Strategy, University of California, Berkeley - School of Law, Hitotsubashi University, Indiana University Maurer School of Law, University of California, Berkeley - School of Law, University of Tokyo - Graduate School of Law and Politics, University of California, Berkeley, Independent, Gakushuin University, University of Tokyo - Faculty of Law, Waseda Business SchoolCESifo (Center for Economic Studies and Ifo Institute), University of Tokyo, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Nagoya University, Graduate School of lawNagoya University, Graduate School of law, Stanford Law School, Independent, Waseda University - Graduate School of Commerce, Nomura Institute of Capital Markets Research, Harvard Law School, Indiana University Bloomington - Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies, Yale Law School, Waseda University, Independent, Doshisha University, Faculty of Law, Hitotsubashi University Graduate School of Law, Independent, Independent, Independent, Independent, University of Virginia School of Law, Waseda University - School of Law and University of Tokyo - Faculty of Economics
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Growing Securities Litigation Against Issuers in Japan: Its Background and Reality

Number of pages: 40 Posted: 13 Jan 2016
Gen Goto
University of Tokyo - Graduate School of Law and Politics
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securities litigation, Japan, issuer's liability

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Legally 'Strong' Shareholders of Japan

Michigan Journal of Private Equity and Venture Capital Law, Volume 3 Issue 2 (2014)
Number of pages: 40 Posted: 29 Mar 2014 Last Revised: 05 Aug 2014
Gen Goto
University of Tokyo - Graduate School of Law and Politics
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Japanese law, corporate law, shareholder activism, shareholders' rights

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Die japanische LLP im gesellschaftsrechtlichen Kontext (The Japanese LLP in the Context of Company Law)

Journal of Japanese Law (ZJapanR), Vol. 21, No. 41, pp. 89-115, 2016, Max Planck Private Law Research Paper No. 16/18
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 08 Jul 2016
Harald Baum and Gen Goto
Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law and University of Tokyo - Graduate School of Law and Politics
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Introduction of the limited liability partnership (LLP) in Japan, great expectations but limited success of Japanese LLP since 2005, overly restrictive regulation, no availability for most of the independent professions.

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Shareholder Activism and the Role of Independent Directors in Japan

Number of pages: 87 Posted: 06 Feb 2021
Jeffrey N. Gordon, Zenichi Shishido, Wataru Tanaka, Akitsugu Era, Gen Goto, Tsuyoshi Maruki, Hirohiko Nakahara, Yasunori Nakagami, Sadakazu Osaki, Junji Ota, Hiroki Sampei, Akira Tokutsu, Akira Tokutsu and Masao Yoshimura
Columbia Law School, Hitotsubashi University Graduate School of Law, Institute of Social Science, the University of Tokyo, affiliation not provided to SSRN, University of Tokyo - Graduate School of Law and Politics, affiliation not provided to SSRN, Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI), affiliation not provided to SSRN, affiliation not provided to SSRN, affiliation not provided to SSRN, affiliation not provided to SSRN, Tohoku UniversityTohoku University and affiliation not provided to SSRN
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Japanese corporate governance, hedge fund activism, institutional investors, independent directors