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Tell Nomura to Stop Funding HLS Animal Abuse
  1. Signatures
    400 out of 10,000
    Petitioning
    1. President and Chief Executive Officer, Nomura Holding (+ 2 others)
      Petitioning
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      • President and Chief Executive Officer, Nomura Holding (Shigesuke Kashiwagi)
      • Nomura UK CEO (Tarun Jotwani)
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  2. Created By
    Kitty Autumn
    Catopia, United Kingdom
About this Petition Petition Letter

 

Fortress Investment Group have loaned HLS well over $70million and who
are the one lifeline keeping them open. They are 10% owned by a Japanese company called Nomura. The two companies share directors and Nomura can have a lot of influence over Fortress’ decision making. As Fortress is part of Nomura’s
American portfolio, please take a moment to email their American CEO, Shigesuke
Kashiwagi, and urge him to pressure Fortress to pull the plug on HLS.

This loan is HLS's life line right now and without it
they will go bankrupt.

 Please see www.shac.net for more information

Please also use Nomura's feedback form to contact them on:
https://www.nomuraholdings.com/cgi-bin/feedback.cgi



UK head office
One Angel Lane
London EC4R 3AB
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UK registered address
Nomura House
1 St Martin's-le-Grand
London EC1A 4NP

Nomura International plc
Tel: (44 20) 7521 2000

Nomura Bank International plc
Tel: (44 20) 7521 2000

http://www.nomura.com/europe/about_nomura/offices.shtml

Recent Signatures

Tell Fortress to Retract Loan to Animal Abusing HLS

Greetings,

I am writing in regards to your company’s involvement, and part ownership of,
the Fortress Investment Group. Specifically I would like to draw your attention
to an ongoing loan facility that they have provided through their Drawbridge
Special Opportunities Fund to Huntingdon Life Sciences (HLS), to the value of
$70 million plus.

As you may be aware, HLS are Europe’s largest animal testing laboratory, who
have been exposed repeatedly between 1997 and 2008, punching puppies in the
face, cutting open live primates without anaesthesia, allowing primates to self
mutilate, and staff have been caught drinking and drug taking between invasive
procedures, as well as on occasion accidentally stitching surgical equipment
into live animals. For more information on this, please visit
www.shac.net.

The reason that Fortress agreed to provide this loan was due to previous
lenders (including NatWest and Stephens Inc.) withdrawing their support, in
part due to animal welfare concerns. There can be no doubt that Fortress are
aware of the public outrage towards HLS, as part of their loan agreement has a
confidentiality clause.

I urge you to use your influence over Fortress to encourage them to disengage
with HLS, and to adopt an ethical policy which prevents future investment in
the most controversial, and most exposed animal testing laboratory in the
world.

Yours sincerely

[Your name]

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