Board Advisory — Overseas Shareholder Engagement
Japan·Industrial & Precision Manufacturing·Posted 22 August 2026
TSE Prime Market issuer facing engaged overseas shareholders
Actively sourcing
A demand profile the Exchange is actively sourcing against. The sponsor is not confirmed on this board, and we say so rather than implying a signed mandate. Registering interest puts you in front of the sponsor when the brief converts.
The problem this seat exists to solve
The board has received a substantive letter from an overseas institutional shareholder on capital efficiency and board composition, and has no director who has been on the other side of that conversation.
The remit
- Advise the board on the substance and sequencing of its response
- Prepare directors for direct engagement with overseas institutional investors
- Review the company's cost-of-capital disclosure against what those investors actually read
- Advise on board composition implications, without conducting the search
What the sponsor will not compromise on
- Direct experience of engaged or activist shareholder situations from the company side
- Credibility with global institutional investors and proxy advisers
- Understanding of Japanese board process and decision cadence
- English required; Japanese an advantage
Terms
- Engagement
- Three to six months, approximately six days a month, with board attendance by invitation.
- Compensation
- Fee scoped on engagement; day rates in the JPY 400,000 – 700,000 range are typical.
- Cross-border
- An advisory engagement does not create an office of director and carries no appointment formalities or statutory liability.
Before you apply — an advisory engagement
No office of director, and no appointment formalities.
An advisory engagement creates no directorship in Japan. There is no registry filing, no regulator pre-approval, no residency arithmetic and no statutory director liability — which is why it is so often the right first step into a market you do not yet know.
- On this brief
- An advisory engagement does not create an office of director and carries no appointment formalities or statutory liability.
- Independence
- Where the engagement specifies independence from any search that follows, that is a requirement of the engagement rather than a courtesy — an adviser to a board is not a candidate for it.
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