The 6th Corporate Innovation Seminar ends in great success

Sep 12th, 2008

On September 11th and 12th, RISA Partners Inc., together with RIFAS Inc. and RISA Loan Servicing, Inc., hosted the 6th Corporate Innovation Seminar titled “Rediscovery of Economic Vitality ~the wave from local regions~” at Nippon Keidanren hall in Tokyo.

We invited and welcomed guest speakers who are successful in their respective front lines, including the president of Molten Corporation, Mr. Fumiya Tamiaki, who has grown the company as the world’s largest ball and equipment manufacturer.

Over 100 guests from regional financial institutions participated in the seminar and the seminar ended in great success.

Lectures given in the seminar are as follows:

■ Development of the Asian economy and the local economy
~notes for SMEs making forays into overseas market

Tadayasu Sano
Partner, Jones Day Law Office

■ Keywords of management innovation in this age of M&A
~present state and issues of M&A regulations

Masakazu Iwakura
Partner, Nishimura&Asahi Law Office

■ “Business opportunities are right in front of you”
~international strategy for local companies

Fumiya Tamiaki
President, Molten Corporation

■ RISA groups’ performance report and case study (1)
-latest performance report
-issues and verification of M&A by local companies
-present state of local distributive firms and key factors for profit improvement

〈Frontier Management Inc.〉
Shoichiro Onishi, Representative Director
Masahiro Matsuoka, Representative Director
Tamotsu Moriyama, Executive officer

■ RISA groups’ performance report and case study (2)
-NPL/SPL investment business
-remarkable progress of RISA Corporate Solution Fund
-vitalization of local companies by utilizing the Fund

〈RISA Partners Inc.〉
Masahito Kotake, Director, Investment Banking Department
Hiroshi Koyama, Director, Investment Banking Department
Hideki Iiyama, Director, Solution Department