(Reuters) - TOKYO, April 11 - A group of angry shareholders in Japan will take a popular restaurant chain to court this week in a case likely to heighten scrutiny of the growing number of buyouts here. Management buyouts in Japan have gone from next to nothing five years ago to $6 billion worth of deals in 2006 as more companies go private to avoid hostile takeovers or restructure without the intrusion of short-term investors.
The upsurge in this market is creating a windfall for bankers and investment funds orchestrating deals, but it has angered retail investors who have been forced to sell shares at a loss.
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