ACGA Blog: Seven & i and Alimentation Couche-Tard: Lessons from a broken cross-border deal in Japan’s season of corporate governance change

2025-08-08

If “the proof of the pudding is in the eating”, Japan’s corporate governance reform—long seen as a slow-moving ambition—is finally showing its flavour. Institutional investors and global asset managers have long scrutinised Japanese boardrooms for signs of real shareholder value generation, writes Anuja Agarwal, ACGA Research Head, Japan and India. Read more here.