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This excerpt taken from the TM 20-F filed Jun 24, 2005. Subscription Rights
Holders of shares have no preemptive rights under Toyota’s articles of incorporation. Under the Commercial Code, the board of directors may, however, determine that shareholders shall be given subscription rights in connection with a particular issue of new shares, stock acquisition rights or bonds with stock acquisition rights. In this case, such rights must be given on uniform terms to all shareholders as of a specified record date by at least two weeks’ prior public notice to shareholders of the record date. Individual notice must be given to each of these shareholders at least two weeks prior to the date of expiration of the subscription rights.
Rights to subscribe for new shares may be transferable or nontransferable and may be made substantially below the market price of shares. Accordingly, rights offerings can result in substantial dilution or can result in rights holders not being able to realize the economic value of those rights.
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