Tag: Securities Regulation
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SEBI Order in the Satyam Case
Facts and Sanctions Yesterday, more than five years after the Satyam ex-chairman’s much talked about revelations, SEBI passed an order in the case against five individuals, being the ex-chairman, ex-managing director, ex-Chief Financial Officer, ex-Vice President Finance and ex-Head (Internal Audit). In the 65-page order, SEBI considers the various acts of these individuals in detail…
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SEBI Order on Delisting
A few weeks ago, we discussed SEBI’s proposals to overhaul the delisting regime. Evident from that discussion were difficulties faced in the current delisting regime. Some of those difficulties have surfaced in an order issued by SEBI yesterday involving the delisting of AstraZeneca Pharma India Limited. SEBI’s order alleges a concerted action between the controlling…
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US Supreme Court Decision on Securities Fraud Actions
The US Supreme Court yesterday issued its opinion in a significant case that determines the state of the law on class actions for securities fraud. The background and the issue in question have been set out in the ruling as follows: Investors can recover damages in a private securities fraud action only if they prove…
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SEBI Consultation Paper on Crowdfunding
We have previously discussed the concept of crowdfunding and the broad nature of the legal issues that it might give rise to. Essentially, crowdfunding that involves the issue of securities (equity or debt) would attract the provisions of company law as well as securities laws. While specific crowdfunding legislation has been introduced in several countries…
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Power of SEBI to Seek Call Data Records
In the past, we have discussed issues with the onerous evidentiary burden carried by the Securities Exchange Board of India (SEBI) in relation to various securities offences such as insider trading. Following from past experience, SEBI has been conferred additional powers to seek further information in the course of investigation of such offences. Much of…
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Enhanced Disclosure of Mutual Fund Voting Policies
Generally, shareholders of a company may exercise their voting rights in any manner in which they deem fit. They are not even obliged to exercise their corporate franchise and may instead choose to abstain rom attending and voting at company meetings. This legal position may engender passivity and shareholder apathy, which have been prevalent in…
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Compensating Investor Losses in India
Posted on SSRN is a new working paper titled “The Protection of Minority Investors and the Compensation of Their Losses: A Case Study of India” that I have authored. The abstract is as follows: Any legal system may potentially deploy two separate but related models to ensure the accuracy of disclosure in the capital markets.…
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Guest Post: Insider Trading and “Price Sensitive Information”
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Securities Laws (Amendment) Ordinance Re-promulgated
Last year, the Securities Laws (Amendment) Ordinance was promulgated (twice in sequence) to grant SEBI additional powers of enforcement on various matters and to expand its regime to regulate Ponzi schemes. After the second Ordinance lapsed, there was concern that the situation would result in disruption of SEBI’s enforcement process. After some dithering, the Securities…
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Consolidating Secondary Market Disclosures
(This post has been authored by, and is uploaded on behalf of, Professor Umakanth) As we have previously observed on this Blog, there is a considerable divergence between the requirements of disclosure in the primary markets and those in the secondary markets. While SEBI has progressively expanded the requirements of primary market disclosures through the…
