Tag: SEBI
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Gender Diversity on Corporate Boards: The Need to Move Beyond Rhetoric
Over the last few days, the financial press has been abuzz with the efforts of listed companies in India to recruit at least one woman director on their board in order to comply with the requirement under clause 49 of the listing agreement that takes effect today. This requirement also emanates from the Companies Act,…
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Financial Sector Legislation, Anti-terror Laws, Human Rights and the Indian Constitution
We all now know that the Supreme Court outlawed Section 66-A of the Information Technology Act in a recent order. I wrote about the court’s core findings in a column in the Mirror publications last Friday. I would have been remiss in not writing about the court’s rationale in the very same judgement, in refusing to…
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SEBI Guidelines for International Finance Centres
[The following post is contributed by Yogesh Chande, who is an Associate Partner with Economic Laws Practice, Advocates & Solicitors. Views of the author are personal.] The report (2007) of the High Powered Expert Committee (HPEC) on ‘Mumbai: An International Financial Centre’ had in its report suggested the setting up of International Financial Centre in Mumbai.…
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SEBI Amends Delisting, Takeovers and Buyback Regulations
[The following post is contributed by Yogesh Chande, who is an Associate Partner with Economic Laws Practice, Advocates & Solicitors. Views of the author are personal. SEBI has with effect from 24 March 2015 amended the following regulations: (a) SEBI (Delisting of Equity Shares) Regulations, 2009 (“Delisting Regulations”); (b) SEBI (Substantial Acquisition of Shares and Takeovers)…
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SEBI’s Restraint Order: Impact on Joint Accounts
[The following post is contributed by Yogesh Chande, who is an Associate Partner with Economic Laws Practice, Advocates & Solicitors. Views of the author are personal. The author discusses a recent SEBI order regarding the scope of a restraint passed by it earlier on a noticee from dealing in securities. By now clarifying that joint accounts…
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SEBI Board Decisions
SEBI announced a slew of decisions taken at its board meeting yesterday, which are excpected to have an impact on the capital markets, both primary and secondary. International Financial Services Centres (IFSCs) SEBI’s board has approved the SEBI (International Financial Services Centres) Guidelines, 2015, which will help establish IFSCs such as the proposed Gujarat International…
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Dissecting the Convergence of the Securities Markets and the Commodities Markets Regulators
[The following guest post is contributed by Abhilasha Mondal, a 5th year student at the National Law School of India University, Bangalore. She can be contacted at abhilashamondal@nls.ac.in.] The Finance Bill, 2015-16, actualises the merger between the Securities and Exchange Board of India (“SEBI”) and the Forward Markets Commission (“FMC”). The unification of the regulators,…
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SAT Order in the DLF Case: Controlling SEBI’s Punitive Vehemence
[In an earlier post, I had offered some initial overview and commentary on the SAT Order in the DLF IPO Case. In the following post, Vinod Kothari offers another perspective that focus on certain specific aspects of the order and analyzes their impact on SEBI’s role as an enforcer of securities regulation. The author can…
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SAT Order in the DLF IPO Case
As readers may recall, the adequacy of disclosures in the IPO prospectus pertaining to DLF Limited was called into question in a series of investigations by the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI). The process culminated in SEBI passing an order on October 10, 2014 finding that the disclosures were inadequate and thereby restraining…
