[Sharanya Shivaraman is a student (Class of 2019) at ILS Law College, Pune] In his budget speech 2017-2018 in February last year, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley addressed the issue of transparency in political contributions. His announcement regarding the introduction of electoral bonds generated significant debate and speculation. The Electoral Bond Scheme, 2018 was subsequently launched on...
Qualified Institutional Placements: SEBI Settles the Dust
[Shubham Sancheti is a 4th Year B.A., LL.B. (Hons.) student at NALSAR University of Law, Hyderabad] The Securities and Exchange Board of India [“SEBI”] omitted clause (c) under Regulation 82 of the SEBI (Issue of Capital and Disclosure Requirements) Regulations, 2009 [“Regulations”] by way of a recent amendment [“Amendment”]. The provision falls in Chapter VIII of the Regulations which deals with...
Transferability of Winding-up Proceedings from High Court to NCLT
[Dheeresh Kumar Dwivedi is a lawyer at APJ SLG Law Offices New Delhi] The Companies Act, 2013 (“Act of 2013”) was passed with the object of consolidating and amending the law of corporations in India. Before the passage of the Act, the winding-up of a corporate debtor on the ground of ‘inability to pay debts’ was governed by the provisions of sections 433(e) and 434 of Companies Act, 1956 (“Act...
Winding-up and Liquidation: Demarcation by the Bombay High Court
[Shubham Sancheti and Prashamsha Tulachan are 4th Year B.A., LL.B. (Hons.) studentsat NALSAR University of Law, Hyderabad] The Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016 [“Code”] entailed various interpretation lacunae and, the Central Government is constantly seeking to bridge the emerging gaps. One of such lacuna pertained to the conflict between “Winding-up” under the Companies Act [“1956 Act” or...
Form PAS-3 for Privately Placed Issuance
[Vinita Nair is a Partner at Vinod Kothari & Company, and can be reached at [email protected]] One of the major concerns arising from enforcement of Companies (Amendment) Act, 2017 is to ensure compliance of provisions of the substituted section 42. One of the clauses of section 42 restricts utilization of monies received from subscribers of a privately placed issue of securities...
Analysis of the Strike-Off Provisions under the Companies Act, 2013
[Utsav Mitra is a 3rd year B.A. L.L.B student from The National Law Institute University, Bhopal] Strike Off is a method prescribed under sections 248-252 of the Companies Act, 2013 (the “Act”). These provisions have been notified by the Ministry of Corporate Affairs by way of a notification dated 26 December 2016. They provide an opportunity for defunct companies to get their names removed from...
Supreme Court on Delay in Filing Appeal from Orders of the NCLT
[Maneck Mulla is the Proprietor of M Mulla Associates, Mumbai] In Bengal Chemists and Druggist Association Vs Kalyan Chowdhury, the Supreme Court discussed the provisions of section 421 of the Companies Act, 2013 (the Act) which provides for filing of an appeal from orders of the National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) within a period of 45 days with a further grace period of 45 days, (i.e. 90...
Briefing on Stakeholder Responsibility of Corporate Boards
The NSE Centre for Excellence in Corporate Governance (CECG) has issued its most recent quarterly briefing titled Stakeholder Responsibility of Corporate Boards, which has been authored by Mihir Naniwadekar and myself. The executive summary is as follows: – The interests of stakeholders (besides shareholders) have become quite prominent to necessitate their recognition by corporate boards;...
A Curious Case of ‘Public Interest’ in Indian Corporate Law
[Abhijeet Singh Rawaley is a Bar Council of India Trust Scholar and a III Year B.A., LL.B. (Hons.) Candidate at NALSAR, Hyderabad With inputs from Shreenath A. Khemka, a King’s Law Scholar pursuing an LLM at the University of Cambridge] This post comments on section 396 of the [Indian] Companies Act, 1956 (carried forward as section 237 in the Companies Act, 2013). The comment critiques the...
Harmonization of Insider Trading Norms and the Companies Act
[Ankit Handa and Arunima Vijay are 3rd year (VI Semester) B.A., LL.B. (Hons.) students at National Law University in Jodhpur] The Companies Amendment Act 2017 (“CAA ‘17”) has been notified by the Ministry of Corporate Affairs (“MCA”) on 3 January 2018. One of the major aims of harmonisation with the Securities and Exchange Board of India Act 1992 (“SEBI Act”) and regulations made thereunder is...
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