ArchiveAugust 2016

Ushering a New Era for ARCs: Stamp Duty Exemption on Assignments

[The following post is contributed by Vinod Kothari and Nidhi Bothra of Vinod Kothari & Co. The authors may be reached at [email protected] and [email protected] respectively] Introduction Assignment of actionable claims/ receivables is achieved by an instrument, and such an instrument requires stamp duty. The United Kingdom (UK), Hong Kong, Malaysia and India are examples of...

Ruling on Shareholder Rights to Inspect Company Records

[The following guest post is contributed by Dheeraj Kumar Sharma, who is a Manager at Vinod Kothari & Company] Introduction The Mumbai Bench of the Company Law Board (‘CLB’), through its order dated April 16, 2015 in the case of Mr. Anil Kumar Poddar v. Bonanza Industries Limited, dismissed the application of a shareholder who demanded copies of records of a company and sought inspection of...

Call for Papers: Indian Journal of International Economic Law

[The following announcement is posted on behalf of the Indian Journal of International Economic Law] The Board of Editors of the Indian Journal of International Economic Law (IJIEL) is pleased to invite original and unpublished manuscripts for publication in Volume 9.  About the Journal The IJIEL is a student-edited and peer-reviewed law journal published annually by National Law School of...

Arbitrability of Securities Law in India

[The following guest post is contributed by Shreyangshi Gupta, who is a third year B.A., LL.B. student at the West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences (WBNUJS). This post aims at identifying the nature of rights relating to securities law, i.e. if they are of such nature that they can be resolved by a private arbitral tribunal, or whether they are exclusively reserved for...

Call for Submissions – National Law School of India Review, Vol. 29(1)

[The following announcement is posted on behalf of the National Law School of India Review] The National Law School of India Review (NLSIR) is now accepting submissions for its upcoming issue – Volume 29(1). The NLSIR is the flagship law review of the National Law School of India University, Bangalore, India. The NLSIR is a bi-annual, student edited, peer-reviewed law journal providing...

Paper on Directors’ Duties and Stakeholder Interests

Mihir Naniwadekar and I have a working paper on SSRN titled “The Stakeholder Approach Towards Directors’ Duties Under Indian Company Law: A Comparative Analysis”, the abstract of which is as follows: Recognizing that common law does not cast any general duty upon directors towards non-shareholder constituencies, legislatures have sought to formulate a tolerable solution to what they perceive as a...

Liberalized Regime for Issuance of Masala Bonds

An attractive option for Indian companies raising finances is to issue rupee-denominated bonds to persons residing outside India. Popularly known as “masala bonds”, some of these may even be listed on foreign stock exchanges. Naturally, the legal regime governing these bonds, particularly from the purview of corporate law, securities regulation and foreign exchange laws is of relevance. Over a...

Discretionary Portfolio Management and Insider Trading

The concept of discretionary portfolio management (“DPM”) is one whereby a portfolio manager makes investments on behalf of a client. The decisions regarding which investments must be made, and on what terms, are left to the portfolio manager. The client neither influences the decision-making of the portfolio manager nor does the client get involved in day-to-day investment decisions. Request and...

Margin Requirements for Non-Centrally Cleared OTC Derivatives

[The following guest post is contributed by Rishi A., who is a 5th year law student at HNLU, Raipur] Introduction At the end of 2008, the world, especially the United States, witnessed one of the worst financial crises. The tipping point in this crisis was not the bad credit quality of the household mortgages that were losing their value because of a number of reasons including the growing...

PPPs: Public Law Matters, Doesn’t It?

[The following post is contributed by Santanu Sabhapandit, who is pursuing his doctoral studies at Monash University, Melbourne, Australia] The need for better infrastructure in India cannot be overemphasised. Availability of necessary funds, innovative skills and efficient implementation of projects are some of the key requirements if any of the targets for creating infrastructure facilities are...

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