{"id":27479,"date":"2025-07-01T04:10:12","date_gmt":"2025-07-01T04:10:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hotelsalepage.com\/feed\/cision-pr-newswire\/elliott-statement-on-sumitomo-realty-development-co-ltd\/"},"modified":"2025-07-01T04:10:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-01T04:10:12","slug":"elliott-statement-on-sumitomo-realty-development-co-ltd-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thaipropertynews.com\/feeds\/?p=27479","title":{"rendered":"Elliott Statement on Sumitomo Realty &amp; Development Co., Ltd."},"content":{"rendered":"<table border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"10\" cellpadding=\"5\" align=\"right\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mma.prnasia.com\/media2\/2705826\/5395261\/Elliott_WhiteText_GreenBackground_ID_facf9659ef5c_Logo.jpg?p=medium600\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" title=\"logo\" hspace=\"0\" vspace=\"0\" width=\"118\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p> <span class=\"legendSpanClass\">LONDON<\/span>, <span class=\"legendSpanClass\">July 1, 2025<\/span> \/PRNewswire\/ &#8212; Elliott Investment Management,\u00a0L.P. and Elliott Advisors (UK) Limited (&#8220;Elliott&#8221;), which advise funds that together have a more than 3% ownership stake in Sumitomo Realty &amp; Development Co., Ltd. (&#8220;Sumitomo Realty&#8221; or the &#8220;Company&#8221;), making Elliott one of the Company&#8217;s largest shareholders, note the results of Sumitomo Realty&#8217;s 2025 Annual General Meeting of Shareholders.<\/p>\n<p>In our view, the low approval rate for members of senior management reflects investor dissatisfaction with the Company&#8217;s current course. Despite Sumitomo Realty&#8217;s high-quality portfolio, the Company remains Japan&#8217;s most undervalued real estate developer.<\/p>\n<p>As we have previously stated and tried to impress upon management, urgent action is needed to address the Company&#8217;s poor shareholder returns, excessive cross-shareholdings, lack of focus on capital efficiency, and subpar corporate governance.<\/p>\n<p>We value our dialogue with Sumitomo Realty&#8217;s management and look forward to continuing our engagement to support clear, near-term steps that resolve the Company&#8217;s self-imposed challenges.<\/p>\n<p> <b>About Elliott<br \/><\/b>Elliott Investment Management L.P. (together with its affiliates, &#8220;Elliott&#8221;) manages approximately $72.7 billion in assets as of December 31, 2024. Founded in 1977, it is one of the oldest funds under continuous management. The Elliott funds&#8217; investors include pension plans, sovereign wealth funds, endowments, foundations, funds-of-funds, high net worth individuals and families, and employees of the firm. Elliott Advisors (UK) Limited is an affiliate of Elliott Investment Management L.P.<\/p>\n<p> <b>Media Contacts:<\/b> <\/p>\n<p> <b>London<br \/><\/b>Alice Best<br \/>Elliott Advisors (UK) Limited<br \/>T: +44 203 009 1715<br \/><a href=\"mailto:abest@elliottadvisors.co.uk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">abest@elliottadvisors.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n<p> <b>Tokyo<br \/><\/b>Brett Wallbutton<br \/>Ashton Consulting<br \/>T: +81 (0) 3 5425-7220<br \/><a href=\"mailto:b.wallbutton@ashton.jp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">b.wallbutton@ashton.jp<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><!-- wp:html --><\/p>\n<table border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"10\" cellpadding=\"5\" align=\"right\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mma.prnasia.com\/media2\/2705826\/5395261\/Elliott_WhiteText_GreenBackground_ID_facf9659ef5c_Logo.jpg?p=medium600\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" title=\"logo\" hspace=\"0\" vspace=\"0\" width=\"118\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p> <span class=\"legendSpanClass\">LONDON<\/span>, <span class=\"legendSpanClass\">July 1, 2025<\/span> \/PRNewswire\/ &#8212; Elliott Investment Management,\u00a0L.P. and Elliott Advisors (UK) Limited (&#8220;Elliott&#8221;), which advise funds that together have a more than 3% ownership stake in Sumitomo Realty &amp; Development Co., Ltd. (&#8220;Sumitomo Realty&#8221; or the &#8220;Company&#8221;), making Elliott one of the Company&#8217;s largest shareholders, note the results of Sumitomo Realty&#8217;s 2025 Annual General Meeting of Shareholders.<\/p>\n<p>In our view, the low approval rate for members of senior management reflects investor dissatisfaction with the Company&#8217;s current course. Despite Sumitomo Realty&#8217;s high-quality portfolio, the Company remains Japan&#8217;s most undervalued real estate developer.<\/p>\n<p>As we have previously stated and tried to impress upon management, urgent action is needed to address the Company&#8217;s poor shareholder returns, excessive cross-shareholdings, lack of focus on capital efficiency, and subpar corporate governance.<\/p>\n<p>We value our dialogue with Sumitomo Realty&#8217;s management and look forward to continuing our engagement to support clear, near-term steps that resolve the Company&#8217;s self-imposed challenges.<\/p>\n<p> <b>About Elliott<br \/><\/b>Elliott Investment Management L.P. (together with its affiliates, &#8220;Elliott&#8221;) manages approximately $72.7 billion in assets as of December 31, 2024. Founded in 1977, it is one of the oldest funds under continuous management. The Elliott funds&#8217; investors include pension plans, sovereign wealth funds, endowments, foundations, funds-of-funds, high net worth individuals and families, and employees of the firm. Elliott Advisors (UK) Limited is an affiliate of Elliott Investment Management L.P.<\/p>\n<p> <b>Media Contacts:<\/b> <\/p>\n<p> <b>London<br \/><\/b>Alice Best<br \/>Elliott Advisors (UK) Limited<br \/>T: +44 203 009 1715<br \/><a href=\"mailto:abest@elliottadvisors.co.uk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">abest@elliottadvisors.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n<p> <b>Tokyo<br \/><\/b>Brett Wallbutton<br \/>Ashton Consulting<br \/>T: +81 (0) 3 5425-7220<br \/><a href=\"mailto:b.wallbutton@ashton.jp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">b.wallbutton@ashton.jp<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:html --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[5,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cision-pr-newswire","category-cision-pr-newswire-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thaipropertynews.com\/feeds\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thaipropertynews.com\/feeds\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thaipropertynews.com\/feeds\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thaipropertynews.com\/feeds\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thaipropertynews.com\/feeds\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thaipropertynews.com\/feeds\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27479\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thaipropertynews.com\/feeds\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thaipropertynews.com\/feeds\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thaipropertynews.com\/feeds\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}