Tag: SEBI

Preferential Allotments Liberalized for Certain Institutional Investors

January 30, 2012

Over the years, SEBI has gradually tightened the regime relating to preferential allotment of shares in order to prevent possible abuse of the process and to thereby protect the interests of minority shareholders in listed companies. One of the requirements pertains to lock-in on shares of allottees. There are currently three types of lock-in applicable…
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QFI Route Operational

January 14, 2012

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SEBI Prescribes Additional Methods to Meet Free Float Requirement

January 9, 2012

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QFI Investments in Indian Stock Markets

January 7, 2012

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SEBI’s FAQs on Takeover Regulations

December 17, 2011

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Insider Trading: Role of the Compliance Officer

December 2, 2011

A few years ago, SEBI’s Insider Trading Regulations were amended to specifically introduce the concept of self-regulation as a mechanism to enforce prohibitions on insider trading in companies. This particularly applies to trading by company insiders (such as directors and employees) in shares of a company prior to significant announcements. In that set of amendments,…
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SEBI Decisions on Public Offerings, Responsibility Reporting

November 25, 2011

SEBI’s board has taken decisions on certain matters involving public offerings and business responsibility reporting. As far as the public offering process is concerned, some reforms have been introduced to promote the capital markets (e.g. increasing the minimum allotment for anchor investors and creating a separate category of disclosures for venture capital funds and other…
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Commentary on the SEBI Act

November 24, 2011

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SAT Order in the Sahara Case

October 19, 2011

(This post has been contributed by Amit Agrawal, a legal practitioner practicing before Rajasthan High Court, Jaipur and an alumnus of the National Law School of India University, Bangalore) The Securities Appellate Tribunal (SAT) delivered its judgment yesterday in the case involving issue of securities by certain companies within the Sahara group. The judgment has come…
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Issue of GDRs and Market Manipulation

September 29, 2011

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