When is a buyout premium not a buyout premium? In Japan, at least, it’s when the cross-shareholdings companies hold get in the way. The issue is going to come into sharp focus if Toyota Motor Chair Akio Toyoda and his family follow through on the 6 trillion yen ($42 billion) offer reported by Bloomberg on Friday to take private Toyota Industries ,

Shares of Toyota Industries Corp. were poised to soar Monday after Bloomberg reported that Toyota Motor Corp. Chairman Akio Toyoda had proposed a buyout.