Shin Keiei Service Co., Ltd., a Kyoto-based consulting firm specializing in management innovation, subsidy utilization, and business succession consulting, will hold an online seminar titled “2026 Edition: Challenges After Becoming a Holding Company: Is It Risky to Accept a Bank’s Proposal at Face Value!?” on June 18, 2026. The seminar is designed for business owners, successor executives, and corporate planning managers. In one hour, it will explain, in an accessible format, the disadvantages, real failure cases, and expert knowledge that companies should understand before deciding to adopt a holding company structure. The free seminar for small and medium-sized enterprises will cover the challenges and countermeasures after transitioning to a holding company. It is recommended for companies that have received proposals from financial institutions, are considering a holding company structure, have already made the transition but are not using it effectively, or want to review their organizational structure. The speaker will be Kensuke Uesaka, senior consultant in the Management Support Department of Shin Keiei Service, a certified business succession professional and SME management consultant. He has supported a wide range of succession cases, including companies without successors, employee succession, succession schemes combined with holding company structures, and family succession cases involving strained relationships. The program will examine whether holding companies truly reduce share value, pitfalls in schemes proposed by financial institutions, advantages and disadvantages of holding companies, post-transition risks such as higher costs, fragmentation among group companies, increased administrative staffing, and issues involving overseas subsidiaries, as well as the factors that separate success from failure. The seminar will be held online via Zoom from 17:00 to 18:00 on June 18, 2026, and participation is free.