ArchiveJuly 2015

Composite Caps for Foreign Investment Formalized

We had earlier discussed the Union Cabinet’s decision to create composite caps for foreign investment under various categories. That decision has now been formalized in the form of Press Note No. 8 of 2015 issued by the Department of Industrial Policy & Promotion, Government of India (“DIPP”). In the previous post, we had highlighted two outstanding issues from the Cabinet decision that were...

Participatory Notes

[The following guest post is contributed by Rishi A, a fourth year student of Hidayatullah National Law University] Introduction The Supreme Court appointed Special Investigations Team (“SIT”), in its report on how best to curb black money, made a number of recommendations. One of these was to check the misuse of participatory notes (“p-notes”). When the markets opened on the following...

Secretarial Standards – 1: Circulation of Signed Board Minutes

[The following guest post is contributed by Nivedita Shankar, Partner, Corporate Law Division at Vinod Kothari & Co.] Paragraph 7.6.4 of Secretarial Standards – 1 (“SS-1”) states that signed board minutes have to be circulated to all directors within 15 days of their signing. This is a novel requirement and is an addition to the already lengthy process surrounding finalisation of board...

SEBI Regulations Inapplicable to “Phantom” Stock Schemes

The SEBI (Share Based Employee Benefits) Regulations, 2014 (the “Regulations”) regulate various types of schemes offered by companies to their employees relating to shares. In two separate letters issued pursuant to requests for informal guidance, SEBI has stated that the Regulations are not applicable to phantom stock options and similar schemes that do not involve the actual issue or transfer...

Is the Alternate Listing Platform for Start-Ups Really an Alternative?

[The following guest post is contributed by Geeta Dhania, Partner and Abhyuday Bhotika, Associate at Luthra & Luthra Law Offices. Views are personal.] For any business to grow it is pertinent that it has access to capital and is able to complete the capital formation cycle. Companies should be able to access the funding they need for their growth and the investors should be able to smoothly...

Revitalising Distressed Assets Through the Joint Lenders Forum

[The following post is contributed by Dhanush. M, a 4th year studnent at the Jindal Global law School] The rapid growth of non-performing assets (NPAs), especially with regard to public sector banks (PSBs) is a major hurdle to the sustenance of the banking system. This prompted the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) to issue a paper in early 2014 titled “Framework ForRevitalising Distressed Assets and...

Call for Papers: Journal on Corporate Law & Governance

[The following announcement is posted on behalf of The Centre for Corporate Governance at National Law University, Jodhpur] The Centre for Corporate Governance at National Law University, Jodhpur is proud to announce the launch of Volume II Issue 1 of its Journal on Corporate Law Governance, 2015-16. This issue is focused on recent legislative changes in the corporate sector, which have led to...

Composite Caps for Foreign Investment

Although liberalized over time, caps on foreign investments in select sectors have been a hallmark of India’s foreign investment policy. Added to this is the prescription of “sub-limits” for specific types of foreign investment such as foreign portfolio investment (FPI) and foreign direct investment (FDI). Currently, in several sectors there are different caps for FPI and FDI. For example, in the...

Gender Diversity on Corporate Boards in India

The NSE Centre for Excellence in Corporate Governance (CECG) has issued its most recent quarterly briefing titled “Gender Diversity on Boards”, which has been authored by N. Balasubramanian and Nirmal Mohanty. The executive summary is as follows: • Having women on corporate boards is a diversity measure justified on the basis of both social equity and business consideration; • Global experience...

Bombay High Court on Share Transfer Restrictions

The question of whether transfer restrictions imposed by agreement on shares of a listed company are enforceable has been a vexed one. Numerous decisions of the Supreme Court as well as High Courts had expressed somewhat different views on the nuances of the issue. However, some stability was brought about in 2010 by a decision of a division bench of the Bombay High Court in Messer Holdings v...

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