Shareholding Thresholds for Oppression and Class Actions

The Tata-Mistry episode has
brought into focus the minimum shareholding threshold required for a minority
shareholder to bring an action for oppression and mismanagement under sections
241 to 244 of the Companies Act, 2013. In a piece in Bloomberg Quint titled Minority
Shareholder Protection as a Numbers Game
, I examine the implications of
such shareholding thresholds that operate as a filter, which seeks to weed out
frivolous and vexatious suits from the genuine ones. However, as I argue in the
piece, such a quantitative threshold raises a number of issues and is minority
shareholder unfriendly, thereby requiring a review of the policy surrounding
such an approach.

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Umakanth Varottil

Umakanth Varottil is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore. He specializes in corporate law and governance, mergers and acquisitions and cross-border investments. Prior to his foray into academia, Umakanth was a partner at a pre-eminent law firm in India.

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