[Held on 4/23: Must-see for companies preparing for IPO/Listing & M&A] 'Anti-Social/Compliance Doubts' Become an Issue Right Before Exit!? Initial Response and Normal-Time Design Management Departments Must Know

Effectual Inc. (Headquarters: Minato-ku, Tokyo, Representative Director: Tomoaki Tanaka) will hold an online webinar themed on anti-social forces checks and compliance response for the management departments of companies preparing for IPO/listing, titled 'Anti-Social/Compliance Doubts Become an Issue Right Before Exit!? Initial Response and Normal-Time Design Management Departments Must Know' on Thursday, April 23, 2026, from 11:00. Participation is free. In this seminar, together with Socialwire Inc. and ZeLo law firm, we will explain anti-social and compliance concerns that frequently occur right before an Exit and their practical responses.

━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ■ Background of the Event: Why 'Anti-Social/Compliance' Becomes the Biggest Risk in Exit Screenings ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Right before an Exit such as an IPO or M&A, strict screenings of business partners, individuals, and shareholders for anti-social forces are conducted during the Due Diligence (DD) by securities firms and auditing firms. If anti-social or compliance doubts surface at this stage, it leads to serious management risks such as:

- Postponement of the listing schedule or suspension of the deal - Negotiations to reduce valuation - Damage to reputation, including stock price

On the other hand, many companies face challenges such as:

- Having no criteria for the scope and frequency of anti-social checks - Lacking an established initial response flow when doubts arise - Not knowing how to design a system with 'DD resistance' during normal times

In this webinar, we will share specific measures from a practical perspective to address these challenges.

━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ■ Seminar Overview ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ This webinar will organize the following points that CFOs and management department personnel must know:

- Typical patterns where 'anti-social/compliance concerns' arise and their background - 'Bottlenecks' that occur during the initial response when doubts arise and how to handle them - Key design points for 'accountability' that should be established during normal times - Practical design linking anti-social checks of partners, individuals, and shareholders to improved DD resistance

━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ■ Event Details ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Seminar Title: 'Anti-Social/Compliance Doubts' Become an Issue Right Before Exit!? / Initial Response and Normal-Time Design Management Departments Must Know Date & Time: Thursday, April 23, 2026, 11:00 - 12:10 Format: Online Event (LIVE streaming) Participation Fee: Free (Pre-registration required) Target Audience: CFOs and management department staff of companies preparing for IPO/listing, or companies considering M&A Participation Bonus: Presentation materials will be given to those who complete the questionnaire.

▼ Click here to apply: https://service.effectual.co.jp/event/conference_20260423?utm_source=effectual&utm_medium=seminar * Viewing URL will be sent after registration.

━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ■ Speakers ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ZeLo Law Firm Lawyer: Yusuke Sawada Graduated from Kyoto University Faculty of Law in 2011, completed Keio University Law School in 2013, and passed the bar exam the same year. Appointed as a prosecutor in 2014. Registered as a lawyer in 2019 (Daini Tokyo Bar Association). Joined Sato Sogo Law Office in 2019. Joined ZeLo law firm in 2021. Main practice areas include litigation/dispute resolution, crisis management, M&A, general corporate, human resources/labor, and venture/startup legal affairs.

Socialwire Inc. Reference Division, General Manager: Kento Sugiyama Joined Socialwire Inc. in May 2018. Mainly engaged in corporate sales for influencer marketing. In 2021, assumed the position of Sales Manager of the department overseeing the anti-social check tool 'RISK EYES', leading to a 140% increase in the number of customers compared to the previous year. Currently...