"Virtual Shareholders' Meeting" to prevent infection Participate online from home March 14 4:35
The challenge is how to hold a general meeting of shareholders with a large number of shareholders participating in the medium-sized companies, where the spread of the new coronavirus continues to spread. A new movement has begun in which shareholders will attend a general meeting from home via the Internet to prevent infection.
It is necessary for the general shareholders meeting of a company to determine the venue in advance by law and have the shareholders attend the meeting. The implementation guide has been compiled.
Fujitsu, a software developer working on the Internet, held a virtual general meeting of shareholders on the 13th, as the spread of the new coronavirus spread the self-restraint of events where many people gather.
In addition to the venue in Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, we made it possible to attend from the Internet, and shareholders operated the app to express approval or disapproval of the bill of the general meeting.
According to the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, this is the first general meeting based on a nationally compiled guide, and the number of companies that will adopt it as an infection control measure is likely to increase in the future.
"We thought that taking on new challenges while ensuring safety was also a social contribution, and we want to be able to operate more smoothly."
"Possible to gradually settle."
Mitsubishi UFJ Trust and Banking, which advises on the operation of the General Meeting of Shareholders, has received consultations from companies one after another since the last month.
Masahiro Nakagawa, Deputy General Manager of the Securities Agency Business Office, says, "There is an increasing number of companies that want to use the Internet to provide information to shareholders who do not attend the general meeting of shareholders because of the risk of infection. There are benefits, and it may be gradually established in the future. "