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The agreement includes provisions for property sales information sharing, asset acquisition support, warehousing functions, tenant introductions, financing cooperation, investor referrals, real estate and financial market information provision, and personnel support. The contract is conditional upon the execution of the capital and business alliance agreement and payment of investment funds, with no expected changes to operational forecasts.","jir_financial_highlights":"Equity Stake: 25.00% (New Investment)\nVoting Rights Ownership: 24.90% (New Investment)\nSponsor Support Agreement Term: 3 years (automatically renewed annually thereafter) (New Contract Conclusion)","jir_category":"","jir_hashtags":"#StarAsiaInvestmentCorporation, #CapitalAndBusinessAlliance, #M&A, #JapaneseStocks","jir_key_figures":"Equity Stake: 25.00% (Mizuho Leasing Group\u2019s investment ratio in Star Asia Group LLC)\nVoting Rights Ownership: 24.90%\nSponsor Support Agreement Term: 3 years (automatically renewed annually thereafter)","jir_meta_title":"Star Asia Investment Corporation Forms Capital and Business Alliance with Mizuho Leasing Group and Signs Sponsor Support Agreement","jir_meta_description":"Star Asia Investment Corporation has entered into a capital and business alliance agreement with Mizuho Leasing Group for a 25.00% equity stake, and has signed a three-year sponsor support agreement with ML Estate Co., Ltd. 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